There was a time when America was essentially a farming community, with local production of many of the products so utilized, as well as also the trading of goods manufactured both domestically and internationally. So then, back when our Constitution was written, there weren’t any big corporations, there wasn’t a big federal government, and there wasn’t centralized control of the economy, whatsoever. That is to say, back in the founding days of America, people were mainly dependent upon their own ingenuity and work ethic to thereby create a living standard that was acceptable for them.
The modern age that we now live in, is an age in which the smalltown farmer is either non-existent, or a non-entity, so that the crops that we grow and the livestock that we raise, are essentially in the hands or the control of large conglomerates that manage or own a very sizeable portion of those businesses. In regards to our federal government, its impact upon everyday citizens can be quite extensive, for it is that government that through the mandated taxation of its citizens, gets first its funding from those citizens and then thus gets its hands involved in just about very aspect of many a person’s life, such as in healthcare, shelter, unemployment and employment assistance, aid to families, and so on and so forth.
So too, we live in an era which has outgrown the sole entrepreneur, and has replaced such with the artificial creation of the state, which are corporations, of which, these corporations are perpetual, ever growing, and quite influential in their impact upon policies so enacted within these United States. In fact, corporations are so large in America, that a few of these corporations have had profits that have exceeded over $100 billion in a single year, which is not only absolutely astonishing, but is to a great extent, something that citizens should be rightly concerned about, because lots and lots of concentrated corporate money is a source of immense and outsized power, that can easily circumvent or overcome our democratic traditions.
Further to the point, when big business and big government, have made a conscious decision to work together, hand in glove, then those that are its private citizens who are concerned about the dangers of such a combined awesome force, are going to find that their voice to their dismay really doesn’t matter at all. In other words, despite the fact, that we live within a capitalistic free enterprise system, in which, corporations are meant to compete against one another, we find that to a very large extent, large corporations are often unified in their collective desire to become an essential and thus integral part of what this federal government depends upon, which becomes very good business for those big businesses, because it, in effect, locks out future competition, and thus secures present business and thereby a steady stream of income for those big corporations. Indeed, it can be said that despite the fact that America still has a multitude of small enterprises, proprietorships, and entrepreneurs, that their voice together is pretty much fragmented and impotent; whereas, big government and big business are pretty much joined at the hip, with their joint objective being to milk as much as they can from the general public.