Quote Originally Posted by Stonewall2002 View Post
And yes…. I have more faith in Businesses than I do in the government. The Market is not subject to the whims of voters who are bribed every two years with others money confiscated by the tax collector. Sorry….
No, but the market is subject to the whims of CEOs who are motivated by incentive clauses in their contracts and pressured by stockholders. And there are plenty who would, in a heartbeat, knowingly release an unsafe product if it meant a sudden uptick in sagging sales.

Government does have a watchdog role, and there should be a healthy tension between unfettered capitalism and the government's duty to protect the public.

The ironic thing about this discussion is that while we're talking about the merits of government versus corporations, we're forgetting that today democracy is dead, and we live in what is essentially a corpocracy. CEOs collect politicians the way you and I collect baseball cards.

Corporations write our laws. They have a gazillion times more influence on our government than "voters who are bribed every two years", because they put up their own bribe money into the election kitty.