running up the white flag and letting the Beagle roar

I’m going to run up the white flag on this one. In retrospect I was talking out of my ass. I really don’t know much about corporations. I went to wiki and it didn’t tell me all that much, but it does appear that it is more complicated than I thought it was. My only real argument was that the corporation lacked the human touch, which might be inclined to take pride in the product and build it right, and not in some cheesy way that would result in higher prices, and maybe the guy would want to fund some philanthropy because he thought it would save his soul, whereas the corporation has no soul, and the board of directors would never approve throwing money away. But this is kind of a small difference because I expect there are not that many individuals who would choose the more solid product over solid profits or who want to give to charity.

It was a half-formed thought (that corporations were inherently amoral) which was no big deal because many things are amoral, and I only brought it up because I was kind of pissed about that corporations should be running the country, because you hear it all the time, and it doesn’t make any sense, because the two are interconnected and because they have vastly different missions.

So again I’m sorry I brought it up. I should have thought longer about it and not said it.

I’m sure we’ve been over this several times but who paved the road to Beaglesonia and protects you from a bunch of hockey fans on the other side of the river? And if they got the money to do these things from taxing the private sector, the private sector gets its money from the sweat of your brow.

In this ridiculous argument about govt vs private sector, you see only the bad in govt and only the good in the private sector. They both have their good and bad sides.

And the last sentence (Beagles 12/26/14 7:5) is the wild libertarian squeal for untrammeled capitalism. Oh yes, let’s go back to the gilded age when the railroads were given public land willy nilly, and little kids were working 60 hour weeks, and you never had to worry about anybody inspecting your factory for safety or your restaurant for serving poisonous food. Let the eagle roar.

Here’s a pretty cool development. The latest fad in corporate trickery is where a big American company buys a small company in a foreign land that has low corporate taxes and then does a little razzmatazz and suddenly it pretends to be the small company and that the big American company is a subsidiary and now all its taxes are paid to the foreign country at their lower rates. All perfectly legal. Can I trust you to figure out who had the law written and enacted?

That was just exactly what Walgreens was planning on doing, but then the media ran the story and the public was outraged, and Walgreens realized it was going to loose a lot of customers to CVS and backed out. Inspiring story.