Reply #16: another example

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"Well, either you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, or you are not aware of the calibre of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community. Wellll, you got trouble, folks, right here in River City ...."

"Folks, listen. May I have your attention please? I can deal with the trouble, friends, with a wave of my hand, this very hand. Please, observe me if you will. I'm Professor Harold Hill, and I'm here to organize a River City boy's band ..."



"usually by the government"?

Corporations do it all the time, and usually they, the Prison Industrial Complex, or the Military Industrial Complex will be the one's driving what the government does - especially a Republican government. "Healthy Forests Initiative" = healthy profits for lumber companies. "Prescription drug coverage" = healthy profits for pharma Inc. Etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum.