Is government Dominated by Big Business?

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Introduction

Ever since the ratification of American consititution in 1787 , there have been opposing views on the powers of common people and their say in the governemtn comopared to the power of the rich like the business elites . One of the signers of Declaration of Indpendece Rochard Henry Lee was the first to echo the view of the anitfederalist who aregued that the proposed charter was likely to shift power from the plain

people to the hands of a minority aristocrats and moneyites . The same voice was echoed before the civil war by Democrats who were opposed to eastern merchants and bankers for taking power from the people . There were many radical political parties which came after the civil war which later formed People Part caling for resoration of economic and political powers back to the people . Away from the USA , the case is the same elsewhere . The business elite usually have more influence in political and economical matters as compared to others (Moyers , 2004

The business elite control the government

From the ealier structuring of our social and poltical life , there have nto been meachisms to ensure atht the poor and the rich have equal acess to resources . As a result there have been growing level of poverty among the Americans . Today , America has the highest gap between the rich and the poor among the developed nations , a trend which has been growing with time . Freo example in 1960 , the gap between the fist 2096 and the bottom 2096 was 30 times and today this has grown to more than 75 times . There is a small fraction of hosuelholds which have been basking in wealth and poltical powers while the majority of the population is in dire poverty (Moyers , 2004

The rising cost of life has made it difficult for the American middle and working class to make their ends meet . Even when America spends the largest portion of its income on medical services compared to other countries in the world , eight out of ten of 44 million Americans are uninsured . Majority of them fall in the low income households . The working class American is succumbing to pressure from the rising cost of life which is affect household stability , family dynamics , the social mobility factors , and their participation in political and civic life

Politics of the land has changed from a game of numbers to a game of money influences . As John McCain put its elections of today have turned to nothing less influence peddling scheme in which both parties compete to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder (Moyers , 2004 ,

. 194 . This is in real true going by the trends in funding of political campaigns . It is very rare that during political campaigns for the parties to seek the funding from the poor but they only run to the wealth business elite for funds . When...