| FTC At one time our government did protect its citizens from big corporations. The Federal Trade Commission had the power and ability to force corporations involved in interstate commerce to do the right thing with threats of fines and increased regulations. Today, the FTC (as are most other Federal consumer organizations) are toothless bureaucracies that do their best not to upset corporations for fear the corporations will report them to any one of a number of Congressmen that are on the corporate payroll. Our politicians have sold out to corporate America and there's really nothing we can do about it. Middle-class jobs will continue to be sent overseas while corporate executives become even richer. We the people have no one looking our for us or our interests. To both the politicians and the corporations, we're nothing but a source of money. |
