That is to take care of the business of government
That reminded me of Coolidge quote of "The business of government is business."


Which got me looking around the net for that quote, and this is what I found.



For many conservative thinkers, as Calvin Coolidge said, the business of government is business, and business takes precedence over all other considerations, such as preserving the environment, reducing global warming, strengthening the health-care system, building viable transit systems, or providing affordable housing in the inner cities. Democratic legislatures can enact whatever they want, but not if it means that corporate employers will depart for lower-tax havens. In the last analysis, all too often, economic forces trump political considerations.

To see one result of this trend, consider what has happened to U.S. corporate tax rates in the past two decades. From 1996 to 2000, 63 percent of U.S. corporations paid no taxes at all, while 94 percent paid taxes equal to less than 5 percent of their net income. Moreover, the CEOs of corporations paid themselves huge salaries plus bonuses and stock options, even if their corporations had no increase in profits; this at a time when millions of jobs were lost through outsourcing and wages increased slowly if at all.

What is the upshot of my argument? Neither classical democratic theory nor the economic theory of the marketplace are able to accommodate huge transnational mega-corporations and conglomerates that have amassed inordinate power and are able to compete with the power of the state; these make decisions that governments, executives, or legislatures are unable to control or circumvent. Is America already in a post-democratic stage of development, in the sense that political leaders and the public at-large are impotent in controlling corporate power?



Is America a Post-democratic Society?
How to Preserve Our Republic

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/kurtz_25_1.htm


Conservatism is a pale horse, and the riders should be called DEATH.