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Changing Corporations into Good Servant’s of the Kings (The 99%).

Author: Martin McGregor
Published: January 30, 2012 at 4:25 pm
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In my most recent article I pointed out a simple solution to corporate personhood. This article is about how to move toward a more prosperous nation for the 99%. The news flash of the day: We have a constitutional mandate to control how things are done. How do I know that, my constitution tells me so! Also the one remaining faithful servant of the people in the Senate, Bernie Sanders is showing us how out of balance the system is. When the alpha monkeys acquire too many shiny baubles things do not go well! Smooth Newts come out from under their rocks and try to seduce us. Destroying mom and pop businesses leads to great wealth, . Ironically saving thousands of small bookshops and more is also good business. But today Adam Smith’s prediction of the dangers of corporations is shown to be true in spades:

“Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their master's honour, and very easily give themselves a dispensation from having it. Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company. It is upon this account that joint stock companies for foreign trade have seldom been able to maintain the competition against private adventurers. They have, accordingly, very seldom succeeded without an exclusive privilege, and frequently have not succeeded with one. Without an exclusive privilege they have commonly mismanaged the trade. With an exclusive privilege they have both mismanaged and confined it.” Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

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Article Author: Martin McGregor

My career has been in three phases, research scientist, lawyer, and technology commercialization. My education includes a BS in Chem., a Ph.D, and a J. D. In 1978 I joined Baker & Botts (Baker Botts LLP) in Houston. Since 1995 it has been the Law Office of Martin L. McGregor. …

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