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Any system which relies on good honest people in positions of power is fundamentally flawed; the kind of people who seek power are the last people who should be allowed to have it.

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So why is your solution to give these people more power?

[/ QUOTE ]Huh? I don't think business should have any political power at all. I think politicians should be forced to represent the people who are actually entitled to vote for them - ie the rules governing the political system must make it in their best interests to do so. In the UK, for example, if we had the power to force a bye-election whenever a local MP disregarded the wishes of their electorate in parliament, Blair could never have taken us to war or introduced a whole raft of disastrously stupid and expensive legislation or sell off state assets to the lowest [censored] bidder at a huge loss to the treasury.

The NHS in the UK was introduced by a right wing government at a time of huge national debt. It would be political suicide for a UK politician to openly attempt to dismantle it. One of the few independents ever to win a parliamentary seat won on a single issue - stopping the local hospital from being closed down. US attitudes to expenditure on health (and education) seem incredibly bizarre from here.