Thank you, Peter, for that reference.

I clicked on it and got a message that the page couldn't be found, but because I was in the intelligence business in the Air Force, it's a subject I'm interested in, and will pursue that Washington Post series exposition.

My concern is corporate-ism. Remember the old movie news presentations in which the Communist threat would be shown as sweeping across our nation by a red wave.

Corporate influence can be shown as insidiously creeping across, slowly but surely, beginning in the 1880's when personhood was handed to them, then all the Supreme Court rulings in the 1970's, which solidified their position as persons with all the rights thereof and gave them the platform from which to launch their plague-like campaign of complete domination.

A small infection at first, it's greed and corruption sought and seeks to spread through the bloodstream of our political life until a sepsis of sorts assures them complete control of our every institution, including our universities, newspapers, television, as much of the internet they can kidnap, and above all, our US Congress, which they own most of now, but won't be happy until they have one in which they will meet zero opposition to all their wishes.

How could this happen in our democracy? Money! Andrea's concern.

Can we undo what they've paid to be done? Do we want to? Don't they provide the jobs for our livelihood (sp)? Don't they share fairly with their workers that which their workers produce for them?

Flashback, Reagan and the Air Traffic Controllers' Union he busted. Clinton and Nafta and the WTO. Clinton and the deregulation of Wall Street when he repealed the Glass Steagle relief valve to consolidation of commercial banks, investment banks, and insurance companies into entities to big to fail.

Monica, where were you when we needed him to be distracted?

Our middle class is disappearing. Our tenant class is reappearing.

The policitcal system which corporations now control, the system our founders formed with a distinct distrust of corporations, is our hope, that is if we can grasp enough of it to wrest it from the corporations whose interests are in direct opposition to ours.

Or maybe its the latter we must realize first. That's hard to do what with all the propaganda the corporate owned TV and radio stations put out to the contrary.