schme wrote:No, politicians, espicially in the states, consistently do coarperations political favors in exchange for campaign funds and party donations.
Look at the countless environmental disasters that the Republican and Democratic partis of America have allowed coarperations to negotiate, not to mention social disaster.
Umm....hello. It is illegal in the US. I'm not saying that 'some' don't do these things but it is political suicide for them and the minute they do they are either kicked out office, arrested, or come around next election year they are replaced by the people. Most don't do this.
Now name me one favor that a politician in the US has done for a corporation (or any lobby group for that matter) that has led to a enviromental or social disaster that has gone unpunished or where that elected official is still in power?