If you had the power to wipe only one evil corporation off the earth, which one would it be?

[Sebastian Doyle]

Fuck "too big to fail". Some corporations are too big to exist. Which one would you take down first, if you had all the power to do so?

[DJ13]

1. Goldman Sachs

Their influence over our government is pervasive.

Get rid of them and everything else would fall into place.

[JVS]

35. Agreed. Also, I've been led to believe from the events of the last year that if they were to go...

all the other corporations would likely collapse too, so it's got that going for it.

[tblue]

2. Blue Dog Democrats, Inc.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. "Other" for me...

Nestle.

A giant octopus of a corporation, they have corrupted doctors and hospitals into allowing pseudo-nurses into the labor and delivery wards to persuade new moms in third world countries to use their formula instead of breast-feeding their newborns.

I have boycotted them (as much as possible) for decades.

I loathe the very sight of their name.

x(

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. Not to mention their chocolate sucks!

But I do remember hearing about the formula story a few years back. Haven't eaten a Crunch bar since.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Thank you!

[rrneck]

4. Other.

The Southern Baptist Convention.

[lonestarnot]

5. Can't just settle for one sorry, count me a no vote.

[wickerwoman]

6. Walmart edges out Monsanto just a bit.

They sounded the death knell for American industry and destroyed Main Street USA. They aggressively take down responsible local companies and then jack their prices. They treat their employees like shit and bust union drives. Plus they censor books and music.

Everything about Walmart is evil and soulless.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. I can't believe I left out Walmart!

Shit.... Oh well, they'll definitely be in the next poll.

[Merlot]

20. walmart was my first thought as well for the same reasons

[Dogmudgeon]

7. How 'bout the Federal Reserve?

It is, indeed, a Corporation.

--d!

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. True.

I can see I might have to do a "part II" to this poll.....

[Throd]

10. Disney

[kickysnana]

13. United Defense for personal reeasons/Monsanto for humanitarian reasons.

Fred Stebler took the proceeds from his father's estate in South Dakota and started the Food Machinery Corporation. He left his stepmother, siblings and step siblings destitute. He sold his company by 1939 for over a million dollars and probably was one of the folks who invested in the Nazi's during WWII. In about 1930 he hired someone to bribe my grandparents landlord in MInneapolis to let an agent in to steal the family bible and anything else he felt was "his". He was my great-grand uncle.

"The Food Machinery Corporation in Riverside traced its origins to three men operating in the first half of the Twentieth century. In 1903, Fred Stebler opened the California Iron Works at Ninth and Vine Streets, where he produced citrus washing, drying, sorting, and packing equipment. In 1909, George Parker bought the Riverside Foundry and Machine Works (renamed the Parker Machine Works) at Twelfth and Pachappa (later known as Commerce) Streets, where he manufactured nailing and boxing machines, as well as citrus washing equipment. Parker's Orange Box Maker was widely used by citrus packing houses in California and Florida. Business rivals, Stebler and Parker filed numerous patent infringement cases against the other, and against other competitors. Upon the advice of banker W. B. Clancy, and based on economic necessity, the two merged in 1920 to form the Stebler-Parker Company, which produced the packing and handling machines at Stebler's plant. Parker continued at his factory with his nailing devices and wire-tying machines."

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/industry/udi.htm

[Lars39]

14. Bushco

I want all their tentacles chopped off and burned.

[flvegan]

15. Cal-Maine Foods.

Largest producer of eggs on the planet. Responsible for more cruelty than every single company listed in the poll.

What? You asked for evil. I've presented to you evil.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

16. Whichever one employs you, provided you actually have a job. n/t

[JackRiddler]

32. .

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

17. Whichever one employs you, provided you actually have a job. n/t

[Lucy Goosey]

18. Wal*Mart and Xe (Blackwater) were the first to come to mind...

but there are soooo many good choices it's really hard to pick just one. Monsanto, Nestle, KBR, Halliburton, NewsCorp, etc., etc., and on and on...

[YOY]

19. Other IBM.

If you all knew just how bad that company was fucking your government because some dumb idiots were convinced that they can outsource Govt. IT to them easier....

And they fucking push us around as if they own the place because nothing but nothing will get their sole sourced asses removed.

[alfredo]

21. Sara-Lee

Don't ask.

[Chipper Chat]

25. Hmmm... So you have been inside one of their processing plants too.

No reply necessary.

[Sheepshank]

22. RNC

Republicans National Corporation (yeah, I know....)
Pretty sure they are organized as a not for profit corp...but still.

Today, and until healthcare passes, I don't feel one teensy tiny little bit like dealing with them or the need for two party antagonisms. I'm so sick of the delay tactics. After health care reform, we can go back to our regularly scheduled programming of lies, slurs, innuendos and mud slinging.

[prairierose]

23. I would have to say that Walmart and Monsanto...

are a tie and it is hard to choose which is more evil. Walmart has wiped out millions of good paying jobs in this country and Monsanto wants to control and does not care if they destroy food crops with their genetic engineering.

[W_HAMILTON]

29. What is the story on Monsanto?

I don't think I've ever even heard of them before.

What are they all about?

[Sebastian Doyle]

34. MonSatan is trying to create their own patented genetic mutation of every seed on the planet

So they can literally control the food supply, with "food" that's more chemical than natural, since the mutations make them "resistant" to MonSatan's own chemical poison pesticides.

They also make the deadly high fructose corn poison from their mutant corn.

Find a copy of the documentaries "Food Inc." and "King Corn". They go into great detail about what MonSatan is doing to this country (and others)

[wickerwoman]

38. Here's an excellent documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_OJcPKEYDE

The production values are a little lame, but they get some great interviews and lay out very clearly why Monsanto is sucking the life out of the global economy and the planet.

On edit: what I didn't realize before watching the documentary was that Monsanto was also behind Agent Orange, Napalm, DDT, PCBs, rBGH and basically every other environmental horror story for the past sixty years.

[conscious evolution]

24. Federal Reserve

[Grey]

26. The pentagon....

The war-mongers inc.

[Touchdown]

27. That's easy. News Corp. Take the megaphone away, and we can control the rest.

It's the propaganda.

[Alamuti Lotus]

30. Really so naive as to think that? "We" control nothing -- the Business Party owns everything

if Fox takes a hit, that's still just a small blip on the radar.

[Touchdown]

31. Not in the least. But it's a bigger start than any of the others.

Because it has the most reach, and like it or not, some people vote for who they're told to vote for. With Fox blaring it's message 24/7, it's never going to be another Bernie Sanders.

It's running a protection racket for the rest up there. I wouldn't stop with them. I would break up all 6 of them into 50-75 smaller companies, and ban ownership of them by any other business.

Almost everything we're fighting against is a direct result of the GOPs efforts to comrtol the message that they started in the 1960s. Goldwater's defeat was a clarion call to take over the media, and control the message. Fox News would never be possible if it weren't for that.

[stevedeshazer]

28. The Republican Party.

It represents all of it.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

33. Definitely agree with so many here

had to vote "other." I would add the Mormon Church, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Bank of America.

[DaveinJapan]

36. Tough to decide, but I went with "other".

McDonalds.

Not ONLY for being a purveyor of salt/fat/sugar/grease and not much else, for encouraging bad eating habits and marketing their troughs as enticing fucking circuses for the young ones, but also for contributing to the global fall in quality and good taste (literally and figuratively).

They're building one right now at the Louvre, I understand. :puke:

[xfundy]

37. First, the goddamned insurance companies who sell the illusion of "protection"

Mal-Wart* came to mind first, but let's face it, they ALL need to go. This nation has been taken over by the greedy psychopaths that run the you-name-it industrial complex. Grocery conglomerates, processed food manufacturers & importers and Restaurant groups that put gawd knows what in our food. Mal-Wart for selling the cheap shit made by COMMUNIST SLAVE LABOR. No way to know if your food is safe even if you grow it yourself. Petroleum companies, chemical psychopaths, medical psychopaths, energy psychopaths, planned obsolescence psychopaths, and those who polish the turds many Americans eagerly line up to pay for and swallow.


* Mal-Wart: a metastasized cancer, spreading rapidly and ravishing economies and family businesses as far as the eye can see, and farther still.

Edited to add:

The RELIGIO-POLITICAL-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, or, the Christopublicans.

[Golden Raisin]

39. It's a tie between Xe (ex Blackwater)

and News Corp.