Taming Corporations Gone Wild

Ralph Nader

June 08, 2007

Ralph Nader is a consumer and political activist. He is the organizer of a conference, “Taming the Giant Corporation: A National Conference on Corporate Accountability,” that convenes today through Sunday in Washington "to address how to subordinate raw corporate power to the will of the people." Nader will speak at the closing session Sunday.

Back in the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt went on national radio and declared what the basic necessities were for the American people—a wage that can support a family, decent housing, the right to health care, a good education and future economic security.

Sound familiar today? It certainly would sound familiar to a majority of the American people. The struggle for livelihood, the struggles to escape poverty, calamitous health care bills, mounting debt, gouging rents and failing, crumbling schools continues year after year.

What’s that French saying? “The more things change, the more they remain the same.”