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Cobra Bill,
The perfect corporation will produce a product with as little cost as possible and sell for the maximum profit. A minimum cost option might be slave labour as Germany and Japan did in WW2. Government has the power and responsibility to prevent the corporation from doing things that run contrary to the values of that society.
As Dan said - our politicians are corrupt - the corporations are doing what they are designed to do. The regulators are not. I'd throw Dodd, Gramm, and a whole bunch of others in with Frank and Rangel.

Steve