[BlueSkyJaunte]

If Thom and I are thinking alike on this one (and I believe we may be), the basic problem here is that we persist in thinking of corporations as entities that have rights, free will, etc.

Corporations are NOT people. They are NOT citizens of the USA. Therefore they should not enjoy equal (or, in some cases, greater) protection under US law. And yet they do, because they continually fill the pockets of US lawmakers. And the US public is too stupid to vote against the *********s who give handouts to corporate America. Worse, there appear to be very, very few politicians who aren't classifiable as *********s.

Those of us buried (for one reason or another) in corporate life get very frustrated at seeing a (seemingly) useless CEO pull down huge bonuses while we (or our fellow employees) are axed. At the same time the US gov't is granting huge wins to corporations like the outsourcing above, the DMCA, etc.