There is a difference between working for and bowing down to a company. Look at the impact of big business in our country. It is appalling. A factory can decide to leave town and ruin that towns economy more than any elected representative could ever dream of doing. And when a factory decides to move into an area, the government gives incentives by lowering/eliminating taxes, restricting regulation, giving them straight money, etc. Not even to go into the whole campaign finance issue where politicians only appeal to what businesses want instead of what the common citizen wants. The list goes on, and I think it is a shame that most republicans that I know keep repeating "we have to do what they want or they will leave us".
a factory doesn't "decide" to leave a town; the whole purpose of a factory is to churn a profit. in the case of factories leaving, say as in detroit, it was more of an issue of high union waged workers putting out a subpar product no one wanted to buy. you can't pay someone $50/hr to make something no one wants to buy, even with all the "government" incentives in the world; and there were plenty. look at chrysler, i think they're on bailout #4.
which company , off the top of your head, would be a good representation of its workers "bowing down to it?"
in the case of politicians bowing down to "businesses"...here's why. if they bow down to a business, say that very gm plant in detroit that hires most of the city, then gm would have an incentive to stay in that location and keep people employed and "happy". if they bow down to the "people", say force companies to pay for the employees healthcare, the companies would move out because they couldn't afford the new premiums, and then the "people" would call "businesses" assholes, as opposed to themselves who ran the businesses out with their bullshit practices.
