On air CNBC just asked: are Dems becoming anti-business (yes they said). Here is my question:

And I wish everyone would email them to this effect: The question should be when did business first become anti-American?

corporate profits to the sky while workers wages stagnate year after year. CEO pay to the sky while workers get laid off (and in fact the more the CEO fires people the higher goes his pay). Downsizing after downsizing to ship the jobs abroad.

Maybe if the average worker got some of the benefits for a change we wouldn't be in such a sub-prime mortgage mess. What a concept: allowing everyone to do better so that we all do better.

Emails: powerlunch@cnbc.com

if what they mean is that businesses should be able to pollute the environment, I'm anti-business.
if what they mean is that businesses should be able to have a greater influence than citizens on who runs and who gets elected, then I'm anti-business.
if what they mean is that businesses can direct national policy against the best interests of the American people, then I'm anti-business.

we need to recognize that massively wealthy and powerful corporations have badly corrupted and distorted our democratic institutions. we need to restore our democracy to its rightful owners. with that as our highest priority, this need not mean we are anti-business. there is nothing wrong with a vibrant national commerce. businesses should contribute fully to the common good. but when they threaten the vision of the Founders, and they clearly have, their inappropriate actions need to be stopped.

when you treat your employees with respect, it becomes less about $$$ ... when an employer who treats its employees with some respect and a bit of lenience, the employees will do whatever they can to make sure the company will survive the rough times. Yes, there will be the people who bolt at the first sign of hard work (didn't W?), but the people who have been treated as decent human beings will also treat their bosses/employers as decent human beings.

If you treat your employees as lower than dirt, if you ALWAYS put the "needs" of the stockholders above valid issues of the employees, why should you expect your employees to cover your ass when times get tough?

As a sideline to this, listen to this BBC Radio 4 program that
aired yesterday which details the business lead coup against
FDR:

Link to Document program web page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document.shtml
Link to program audio:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/rams/document.ram

From the program web site:

Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen

The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.