And I think the battle will be between globalism and patriotism. It began a few years ago on corporate welfare issues, where liberal and conservatives got together to defeat the Clinch River breeder reactor boondoggle. And most recently in the testimony by the same groups at the first-ever congressional hearing on the corporate welfare issue conducted by John Kasich. That was in June 1999, stimulated in part by the great Time magazine cover story on the issue, by Bartlett and Steele, from whom nothing has been heard of since. We want to hear more from them.
Giant corporations are on a collision course with democracy.
The transnational corporate interests are repeatedly coming into conflict with US national security interests, as we see in the China WTO deal. Some of my conservative friends on Capitol Hill should wake up to that reality. I think we'll see out here in Seattle that some union leaders have really lost touch with their rank and file. They may have spent too many nights in the Lincoln bedroom. One way is to really stop the discrimination against small business in favor of big business.