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Letter: Corporate raiders running the country

Editor, Gazette-Journal: We have a billionaire corporate businessman and his cronies running the country. Maybe you thought he would be like some local merchant who understood your problems, shared your values and helped in the community. Maybe you thought he would limit spending and balance the books like we try to do at home. Instead, what you got is someone who’s enriched himself and his family at your expense. In a sense, he’s an animal of the new corporate world. He can’t help it. It’s his nature as much as a scorpion’s nature to sting you. Big corporate business today is different than what you imagined it to be decades ago. Now they buy government access using their influence in our courts to make it “legal.” They literally write legislation in their favor and hand it to your representatives for passage. Those representatives are rewarded, of course. Your interests have zero consideration when it comes to their bottom line. You might be tossed a bone occasionally to keep you fro...

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