How does the government intersect with the private sector

The relationship the government has with the private sector is one of reliance and hatred.  While the government relies on the tax revenue afforded by the success of our capitalistic American economy, our governments democratic policy making stops cold in the arena of private enterprise.  In a country where we believe we all have voices and opinions we find ourselves asking: “whether a government, political system, and society could be described as democratic if it tolerated, indeed promoted, the existence of a small group with immense wealth along with a far larger group with meager income”[1].    In addition I find that wealth isn’t the icing on the proverbial cake to the wealthy but the power to influence political affairs that makes being one of the elite worthwhile.

            The most straightforward example I can find where the private sector and the government intersect is with labor distribution nationally and internationally.  The practice of outsourcing labor to poorer countries is a subject most Americans are sore about.  The misnomer is that domestic corporations choose to keep their labor overhead low by outsourcing and by doing so they pass on the savings to the consumer but in fact the only thing that changes with a their low operating costs is an increase in profit margins for the corporations.  The problem is cyclical and drives the less fortunate into purchasing the occasional cheaper good or service which promotes the business practice indefinitely.  “The decisions made by business firms are usually regarded as nonpolitical or private.  Yet, because they deeply affect the entire society, we consider them as preeminently political.”[2] +

  The hard part is deciding whether the government should step in and regulate labor distribution of domestic corporations.  Would the regulations that could protect the jobs of American citizens eventually make corporations leave America entirely?  How would it affect future multinational corporations from basing their operations in America? 

The thin line that use to exist between the rights for free enterprise has been in my opinion totally cut.  After the government bail-outs of the auto and Banking industry I cannot see the merit in leaving our faulty and volatile economy in the clutches of greedy self serving evil people.  The leaders of almost all corporations attained their wealth and power by sticking it to the little guy better known as the working class majority.  On the backs of the blue collar has America become great not because of the exploits of CEOs. So now that the Democratic American governments has been forced to save them we should step in and make concessions and subsidies for American labor over foreign.  We should also make certain types of labor exclusively American.
 

[1] Katznelson,Ira. The politics of power. 6th ed. New York , London: W.W Norton, 2011

[2] Katznelson,Ira. The politics of power. 6th ed. New York , London: W.W Norton, 2011