Ron Paul: Greece is only the beginning!

[A Black Falcon]

They are businesses, it's either the institution is a business or a religion. I'm willing to put more faith in a business than a church. The rest of the world (mostly) agrees and thankfully the church and secular governments either dont exist officially or only handle small ordinance.

You think it's not a business? Look at global labels and services and how it handles its low level employees and upper echelons of management which reach a golden pillar of protection, everything underneath it is expendable and can be replenished (such as the masses, labor, small business and etc). The grunt employees are given need-to-know information and nothing else, they're limited so only their immediate world exists and outside of that is essentially ignored, refuted and otherwise made unimportant. This keeps employees from striving for betterment and focusing on their position. They keep it expendable in case people attempt to reach higher. This is exactly how western civilization works and it generates a clockwork measurable tier of classes in its people, businesses, schooling etc.

The fact that you cant see it is just more evidence of how powerful it is. There are college courses you can take to learn all this but frankly it should be common knowledge by now. It's the art of the machine, its how and why entertainment can be so easily funded. As a business our government strives to be the most lucrative and successful, maintaining high profits, low losses and shrewd trade agreements to create the flow of the business model.

To our level, the low-level and expendable employees, we get the smoke and mirrors - the low-level managers handing us reports and propaganda to keep our minds focused on what they need to serve their managers and those manager's president's and those president's manager's and so on. Hence the national debt is just another scare tactic, another method to keep us focused.

Absolutely not, governments and businesses are fundamentally different. Churches are something else entirely, unless they run a government, but I'm talking about American democracy here, not autocratic systems.

Businesses exist, at their core, to make money for their shareholders. They are profit-making enterprises. Nonprofits are a bit different, but they are usually counted as a separate category from "normal" businesses, I believe.

Governments, however, exist to, well, govern the people. Fundamentally (in a democratic system at least) they exist to represent the people's will.

On that note, governments are elected by the people, and there is a great deal of democracy in the system. In the American government three different branches of government are balanced. CEOs often do not make good political leaders because they are used to being able to tell people "do this", and have them do it. However, in politics, things don't work that way. No state governor or even president can simply enact legislation, they have to work with the legislature, compromise, and pass a bill. It is a system where compromise is key.

Businesses often have bits of "democratic" systems in them, but compared to governments it is nothing. I think it's a really important difference.