Why is it corporate America can get away with just about anything??
971330
LOL\n"Beloved President". That's funny coming from an obvious Socialist Liberal Bush Hater!
532280
Yes, I think they did get their just due, so to speak.  More significantly, this is one big wake up call to Corporate America.  It says, People aren't going to tolerate being deceived.  Wake up Execs!  Run your company with the best interest of your people at heart.  You are accountable.  And the 'System' will not protect you.
814343
You've hit a nerve with me on this question as I'm currently dealing with just such a question.  Business is business and the number one priority is to provide a profit, however when corporate greed takes such a priority over even the most basic ethics, it has gone too far.  \n\nWe have discovered that Meineke Car Care knowingly sold a convicted sex offender (Rape) a franchise.  When contacted about this, they put in WRITING that they not only knew about his conviction but don't feel it's a problem because it happened in the 90's.  WHAT are these people thinking?  Doesn't a company have an obligation NOT to put their customers in the position on handing over their personal info & keychains or taking a ride home from a convicted sex offender?  Did the recent lawsuits about the attacks on a customer and employee at Walmart & McDonalds teach companies anything?  At least they had the luxury of not knowing the employees history. How could Meineke defend this?
805736
Because they're pathetic hypocrites.\n\nDon't forget, they also allow corporate welfare in the form of massive tax breaks. While the rest of us pay and pay and pay. Not fair.
1140788
This does not surprise me.  It is very frustrating.  In this world today, it seems like the criminals and murderers get away with everything and the good people end up paying one way or the other.  I know this to be true, it has happened to me and mine by a government who boasts freedom, justice and the American Way.  To bad they can not live up to these ideals in these times.  It's all in who you are and who you know.
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China and India are paying their workers a few dollars a day.  These countries are not worth modeling our actions on.  China executes 3500 people a year for crimes as simple as shoplifting.\n\nAmerica is far from Bankrupt.  But we did take a HUGE hit when the dot com busted up the stock market a few years ago.  America not only lost several millions of tax revenue, but had to give millions more in tax rebates to individuals who lost investments.\n\nI think it is extreamly hypocritical to complain about American foreign policy while enjoying the rewards that policy provides.  Do you use oil?  Do you buy shoes, clothes, and other products made overseas?  Do you want your country that has been formed by millions of immigrants to stand idle when horrible things are taking place in their former countries?  Why do so many people complain about 2500 soldier deaths within the last 5 years when in that same time period more than a half million Americans have been murdered, died in alcohol related accidents, and lung cancer, just to name a few preventable deaths?\n\nMy question is why are Americans ruining their own lives while riding the media bandwagon telling us to blame our leaders.\n\nAmerica will survive and will do it helping (and hurting) many other countries along the way.  We will learn to judge our actions on a larger scale (think centuries instead of years).  And it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better as we stretch and learn.  America is still one of the youngest countries on the planet.
538315
Supposedly, its either in an effort to raise money (this was the sole source of income for the early U.S. government) or to "protect" certain industries from foreign entities.  However, economists generally state that no industry should be protected: a totally free enterprise system works best.  Why should we keep making horse and buggies, for instance, if the rest of the world is making automobiles?  Why should we protect industries like sugar when the average American family must pay over $250 a year more for sugar than the rest of the world pays?  Just to keep an inefficient market in place?  Hardly.
1101376
Your question is excellent & more people should be asking \nquestions like yours. \nRight now, big business looks like a disgrace to America. \nTaking anything they can get, from whoever they can,\n& spending it on anything they wish.
502409
The American Government can seize property and dwellings anytime they want.   The Law of Emminant Domain is the sweet little loophole they use when the want to stomp the crap out of your rights.
628023
There are crimes committed against a business, such as embezzlement or brand counterfitting.  Also, there are crimes business can commit, such as with Enron, securities fraud.  Business could break environmental laws.  It is a very broad area you question suggests.
595158
Because you allow your government to sell you their story, which leads to a (mostly) blind public that supports the acts they despise. Public relations executives in the white house are responsible for this deceit, like George Bush's favourite personal advisor, Karl Rove. Gocernments and corporations are working together more than ever to mutually increase financial benefit, with a pathological persuit of profit and power.
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Corporate America of course!! Not Only IN US of A .It is same every where. In any country , and in any form of Govt. The rich only rules. As wealth is created by corporates- with  accompanying power they influence elections directly or indirectly and play major role in all major decisions of any govt.They do this all the time as their stake is very high.
614479
Employers can fire anyone for about any reason they want to.
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HR in American business is like the Worker's Union in Communist Russia.\n\nThey are there to pretend to be on the employee's side, but are really there to control employees and punish them if they get out of line.
562588
Nobody made the U.S boss, nobody asked it to be boss, the U.S took charge and decided to meddle in everyone's business, and not out of good intentions, it only does that for personal gains!! and the fact that it is 'Boss' has nothing to do with its people, it has to do with with the minority that governs it or 'controls' it 'behind the scenes' .. \nand the world is corrupt because of greed and injustice! and thirst for power! because countries and governments don't rule themselves and mind their own business, because there are those who like to control everyone else, and those that are too weak to protect their rights and freedom.
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Because its a diversion story.  The vast majority of media are controlled by conservative corporations, which means they are republican.  They divert the attention of the American public elsewhere, like rattling keys in front of a crying infant, and a good deal of the American public falls for it.  These corporations will do whatever is best for the people in power that are able to tack easily overlooked items sentences long onto bills that take up reams of paper.  For instance, one senator might pen a bill that establishes a few small wildlife refugees but somewhere in the middle tack on something that gives cable companies the right to double your bill if you are a day late.  It happens all the time.  Politicians are big on making up a proposal that sounds wonderful and altruistic while slipping something REALLY lucrative in for their cronies.  \nSo that's why, because they can and Americans do not read the newspaper which is just as guilty of the same offenses but at least if one read a newspaper or 2 a week on top of watching the news, he'd get a better sense of what was really going on in the world.
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Most simply, it will be policed by others, at least in a bureaucratic society.  Look at what happened with corporate governance and the Sarbanes-Oxley law(s).  They brought it on themselves.