> I have no more a way of quantifying my belief than you
> have of disproving it. Because there are some
> unscrupulous people out there running big business
> doesn't mean that big business as a whole should be
> demonized...should I lump all those concerned about the
> environment with the radicals who work directly for Green
> Peace?

Big business as a whole shouldn't be demonized. Big business should act with a conscience. There's a Big Difference. Besides, those sandal-footed Greenpeace activists aren't the ones buying access to our legislators. Who has more influence? And who's getting rich?

> Actually, I think they enable me to better pursue a more
> comfortable life than could ever have been imagined 150
> years ago. What was the average life span for a man or
> woman then? Certainly no where near what it is today.

I'm sure they enable you to better pursue a more comfortable life, and for all I know, you'll live to a ripe old age. However, you didn't address any of my questions at all. I asked you whether or not it was necessary for any of the acts I listed to take place in the name of a corporation grabbing a dollar.

> I don't care for the politics that you've described
> anymore than you do. But I won't color all of big
> business with this same brush anymore than I would make
> assertions about a persons character based on the color
> of their skin.

I don't think anyone is asking you to. What I keep explaining to you is that the current system allows heads of industry unprecedented access to government. It allows corporations unprecedented leeway under federal, and international, law. It's a bad system.