Would it be so shocking to say that that big business, huge corporations have taken over? Are they the one’s deciding what is right and wrong? Lets be reasonable what can be so wrong with a jeep if it’s the best selling jeep in America. All anyone cares about these days is market price, what does Wall Street think of us. This is the same company who in the 1970’s actu

ally had the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) put a value on a human life (about $200,000). They then used this number against the cost of modifying the Ford Pinto that was known to have a faulty gas tank, to decide whether it was worth fixing it or not. Finally, a recall was ordered, but only after being on the market for 7 years and 28 lives lost. The government has deregulated the market to the point where there really is no one watching over the auto industry. In Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign he declared,” the US auto industry is being regulated to death”. This took place right after the Pinto incident. Instead of harsher regulations for messing up, the government decided that we need to ease up on the car manufacturers. This way of thinking has continued with Bush and Clinton. Clinton, a democrat nonetheless, had both parties backing further attacks on government restraints on corporate profit making. It’s a “you scratch my back I scratch your back process”. These corporations give millions of dollars to campaigns to get the officials elected. Once in the official does what he can for the corporation.

We also see how this is an example of how the media is both populist and elitist. They cover the story; they say how people have been getting killed. They give us access to the information. Yet at the same time they cover the backs of the companies by making a rally in support of the company something that it really is not.

In conclusion I feel that monopolies and in this case the Ford Co. have taken over the rights of the

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