In fact, corporate profits have been through the fucking ROOF for years. Where's the hiring? You stupid or what? So they sit on trillions now not hiring, but you think a few more billion in tax cuts and some savings my externalizing costs to the tax payer are going to help? Please explain how. What basically doing is giving your kid a billion dollars to buy a new car, but the kid won't buy the car, so you think maybe giving him another billion will prompt him to buy it. Guess what? The kid is smart and he's not going to buy another car unless he needs it. In fact, with no regulation to deal with, I'd expect even less employment and higher profit. So, you want less employment and higher profit for corporations and that's good for society in general how?

Business isn't around to "hire", as every right winger I've ever met is so quick to point out, yet every time I hear one spouting tax cuts for business (so they'll hire) and less regulation (so they'll hire). It seems to me you right wing freaks should take your own advice. Business is there to make money. Corporate charters require that the CEO do everything in his power to increase profit at any cost. Externalize as much as possible. I don't know of anything in corporate bylaws that talks about hiring people, so you can stop trying to have it both ways. Once you take the regulations away, corporations will still not hire, but they'll be sure to externalize more cost! (dumping, spilling and general polluting, rip-offs, scams, false claims, fake ingredients, price fixing, monopolizing) Remember...oh wait, you're a right winger, so you don't read. Well, there is a REASON those REGULATIONS were put into place. Because your "self-correcting" "free-market" doesn't regulate itself, contrary to current popular corporate propaganda. We've been in a time of rampant capitalism before and it didn't go well. I'm not sure what makes you think it would go well this time. CEOs are still dying to externalize anything. Corporate bylaws and charters still call for profit at any cost. If anything, no regulation would be even more destructive now. So please tell me, who's going to clean up the messes corporations make? The tax payer? Yup. Yeah, that's capitalism.

To quote "How To Get Ahead in Advertising"'s John Bristol's commentary about the PR industry "If you breathe, it works on you". I think you're underestimating the PR industry's ability to get under the skin of even the least indoctrinated and well informed. Do you understand that with which you'd tinker? I'm gonna digress here...a lot, but whatever. Companies spend billions every year on PR and they're not just roping in the "sheeple". Read the Robb Report lately? Even the most educated and least indoctrinated are swayed, just in different ways and for different things. I can turn off my TV tomorrow, but I still socialize in the same circles. You think I'm gonna show up at a party not wearing something new from Barney's? Should I run around warning all my friends of the evils of capitalism; the system that's enriched them their whole lives? Maybe they'd all notice the huge problem you describe and relinquish it all in the name of wealth redistribution. I don't know what you're after, but there's a certain segment of the population...yeah you better hope they consume. You should think hard about the implications of what you'd have happen. If the top 20 % stop the indoctrination (it might happen) and stop consuming, society will literally collapse. It won't look anything like it does now. You should be prepared for that, talking the way you do. Is the Tea Party taking over your backup plan? Heard of late weimar germany? If that bunch takes over, you can welcome your new fascist overlords. So, unless you're politically active and joining the Occupy movement, you should be careful how passionately you argue your case. If the Occupy movement became strong, you might enjoy something with those values taking over, but any force could easily hijack that. This is when your despised PR industry REALLY kicks in. You think the Obama PR machine was big (It did win awards), wait until you see our new fascist overlord's ad buy. Just know that what you're talking about isn't just getting rid of PR and everything's great. This society is built on PR. In fact, democracy as you know it (ok it's not real democracy) absoultely depend on straight up propaganda. Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. So get rid of PR and people's ability to be brainwashed, you had better be prepared with something better than the tea party, or you'll wish you'd kept cable.

It's great how it is. Leave it unadorned and what most would call "boring". Thank you.

That hardly means wiretaps in general. For all I know, they're just emboldened to the point of not bothering with red tape. Where I worked (ex telecom engineer), the feds weren't obliged to present any special documents. The services I managed had a simple URL and a simple login/password where the government could login and look at customer data at any time.