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Thom Hartmann: U.S. Corps are no longer businesses...they're extraction machines
Lynn Parramore, Contributing Editor-Alternet joins Thom Hartmann. Corporations in America used to care about the best interests of their communities and country - but their role in society has changed. How have corporations become a predatory monster - preying on Americans and their wallets?
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The government continues to give subsidies to big business'. Medicare isn't even allowed to buy the much cheaper, generic drugs for American citizens anymore. We are forced to pay top dollar for name brand and are not allowed to negotiate prices because of "a deal" congress made with the pharmaceutical industry (via lobbyists, of course). The Camel's back is breaking and it's almost entirely due to corruption. 
