Comments on: Business or Government : A simple question unless you’re a liberal politician. http://nothingbuttruth.com/maximum-crane/2009/10/business-or-government-a-simple-question-unless-you%e2%80%99re-a-liberal-politician/ Nothing But Truth® Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:17:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jeff W http://nothingbuttruth.com/maximum-crane/2009/10/business-or-government-a-simple-question-unless-you%e2%80%99re-a-liberal-politician/comment-page-1/#comment-5976 Jeff W Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:07:40 +0000 http://nothingbuttruth.com/?p=799#comment-5976 I don't see this as a functional premise. I think that both business and government have their proper places in our society. What should concern us is the balance of power between the two. We all want a smaller, less intrusive government, but the government needs to be capable enough to counterbalance business. Businesses are, of course, for profit entities, and under our Capitalist system, they compete with other businesses. Not all businesses are ethically strong, and many businesses are morally insensitive, at lesat to some degree. Competition may bring out the best in us, but it can also bring out the worst. We need government to counterbalance the power business has to adversely affect our lives. History, both recent and distant, has clearly shown the need for these regulations. Our system of government is based on the balance of powers. This balance of power needs to be maintained across all aspects of our society. Business, in general have become very powerful...and potentially even more so with the recent SCOTUS campaign finance ruling. We must have a government sufficiently large and powerful to protect us from any other powerbase, and the opposite is true as well. I don’t see this as a functional premise. I think that both business and government have their proper places in our society. What should concern us is the balance of power between the two. We all want a smaller, less intrusive government, but the government needs to be capable enough to counterbalance business.

Businesses are, of course, for profit entities, and under our Capitalist system, they compete with other businesses. Not all businesses are ethically strong, and many businesses are morally insensitive, at lesat to some degree. Competition may bring out the best in us, but it can also bring out the worst. We need government to counterbalance the power business has to adversely affect our lives. History, both recent and distant, has clearly shown the need for these regulations.

Our system of government is based on the balance of powers. This balance of power needs to be maintained across all aspects of our society. Business, in general have become very powerful…and potentially even more so with the recent SCOTUS campaign finance ruling. We must have a government sufficiently large and powerful to protect us from any other powerbase, and the opposite is true as well.

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