Can we enlist the help of business to fight the NSA...

[slor]

spying scandal. I have heard too many people say, "if it protects me, do it" which is sad enough. But if people see how it can also be used to help, say, business associates of the chimp, gain advantage over competitors, I think people might actually say STOP. What do you think?

[Rene]

1. The've sent our jobs overseas....now we all make 'international' calls

in order to talk to the multi-language customer service people that are at the end of the VRU's.
We're a l l being recorded.
They use key word searches that cull out all data from ANYONE'S converstion.
Have you ever been on one of those calls where you can't even understand what's being said?....and you ask where the person is located and they lie....and they use "American sounding names".
I'm so disgusted with today's corporations who have wiped out so many American's jobs.

[MadHound]

2. Please, that's like asking the fox to guard the henhouse

Way too many corporations and large businesses will benefit from an increased security/police state. A godsend of data mining, captive markets, decreased labor costs, decreased liability costs, decreased safety concerns in the workplace, decreased enforcement of enviromental regulations, on and on ad nauseum. And if the cost of all of this is Bushco cronies' getting plum contracts, well hey, they too will become Bushco cronies.

We can expect no help from the business sector, just more harm. Hell, it was the business sector that caused most of these problems to begin with, why in the hell would they help us?

[slor]

3. That is my point...

I am referring to the smaller businesses, the ones at risk of losing to halliburton and such, the ones that make up the largest quantity of businesses in the country.