Power: Government, Economy, and Politics

What role does power play in government, economy, and politics?

Power plays a big role in government, economy, and politics. In general the party with more power wins; when you have more power you have more ability to persuade voters your way. We, the general public gives the power to the leaders. Government has a lot of power! The government has even been accused of abusing this power by restrictions on travel to Cuba, illegal surveillance and wiretapping, also US military aggression in central American and Iraq…….power is a huge factor in government, economy, and politics.

Power plays a role in all three Government, Economy, and Politics...

Power is a very powerful thing. Power is usually defined as a persn or nation having great influence or control over others. At the beginning of Chapter 2 the author mentions that corporate policies have profound consequences for all citizens, that anything that the government does is going to affect people's lives and their communities. In this chapter is discussed that Capitalism distributes money,wealth, and economic power unequally. It is obvious that the people who own and control the means of production have control over employees. Capitalism is a economic system in which means of prouction are privately owned and operated for a private profit. Capitalism i considered a form of private government. As the book states this is "private in the sense that those who own and control capital(financial resources, machines, offices...) are not elected by the public through democrativ procedures."(19) In a capitalist economie a small portion of people live off the income they receive from owning a business, most people earn their livings by working for others. In this case management holds all power over employees...(breaks, vacation time, wages, benefits)

They then decide whether to invest, what to invest in and where to invest it. These corporate decisions affect the entire society. On oage 27 Charles Linblom an economists says "because public functions in the market system rests in the hands of bussinessmen, it follows that jobs, prices, production, growth and economic security of everyone all rests in there hands." That is Power!

MONEY=POWER

What do you think is the most powerful thing in the government, economy and politics???