GE has been showing how it's done:
"The intersection between GE's interests and government action is clearer than ever," General Electric Vice Chairman John G. Rice wrote in an Aug. 19 e-mail to colleagues.
Rice was calling on his co-workers to join the General Electric Political Action Committee. "GEPAC is an important tool that enables GE employees to collectively help support candidates who share the values and goals of GE."
The full letter suggests that "share the values and goals of GE" really means "support policies that profit the company."
Steve Milloy, a pro-free market investor at the Free Enterprise Action Fund, obtained this e-mail and says it reveals General Electric for what it really is. "GE is lobbying to become the biggest rent seeker this country has ever seen," Milloy told this column. Rent seeking is using government legislation or regulation to generate private profits the free market wouldn't provide.
Read the whole thing. Is this how you want your economy run, with your taxes going to the government, which then doles it out to companies who do the best job of pressuring politicians?
(Also of note is the fact that GE owns a huge chunk of the media in NBC/MSNBC/CNBC. Kind of makes you look at those green logos for NBC's NFL coverage differently, doesn't it? How about "Green Week" to "raise awareness"? Then the parent company turns around and asks for taxpayer-funded subsidies to address the very crisis they're "raising awareness of".)
