joe gets politics confused with his cynical view of the world that results from old age

The main problem with the idea of less government or more government is that you are going to have the same amount of corruption with both. More government means you will have mostly political corruption and businesses won't have any ability to really prosper. On the flip side if you have no government, you will have corporations who have no limits in what they can do and people with stronger positions can take advantage of others.

Now you see the problem with this view is we have a mixed system of regulations where corporations control the regulations essentially through money. Because that is how everything in this world is represented and also how stuff will get done. So the corruption will always be there.

Now do I know the solution to this? clearly really but I can probably take a really good guess and tell you our system needs to change to where the influence a government has over corporations or the influence corporations has over them does clearly equal corruption to a high degree, corruption will always exists.

If you look at some other countries economies and governments, some of them do quite well with a huge public sector while some don't. It's basically comes down to how you allocate your resources and how you manage them in order to make sure you have a stable environment in order to prosper.

So who do you blame? Corporations or the government? You blame them both and you try to figure out a way to resolve the problem so the government and business are able to co exist because we aren't going to live in a world where there is no government, technology has created basically the whole earth connected, so globalism is here to stay and you might as well drop the idea we can maintain 100% sustainability on our own. I'm clearly talking about foreign policy on wars and shit, I'm talking economically in the sense of trade. The years of manufacturing jobs and stuff like that are basically gone, because our economy has shifted with the world. Companies no longer compete within just the US, they compete everywhere and that means that potentially a developed nation as ours will have some unemployment to a good portion of the population that is clearly educated enough for higher skilled jobs/labor.

tl;dr

We are all fucked. Just ignore the world and eat mac and cheese and watch football.