The United States government may not wish to admit the factors behind the declination of America’s inner workings, but it's practically impossible for the people to disregard drastic changes. Human-rights violations, economical disturbances, governmental corruption, and other significant issues are dramatically rising. The culprits for a portion of these issues are veiled behind the subliminally attractive labels one sees wherever one ventures. The businesses consuming America such as FirstEnergy (Electrical), WorldCom (Telecommunications), Home Depot (Retail), B&G Foods (Food and Drink), and numerous other large American, or international, companies are encouraging colossal, misguided advances which counter the fundamentals of America. Few trust large business, yet most continue to heedlessly purchase big name brands, therefore encouraging big business to manipulate law to generate profits, perfect their faulty puppet mastery on the economy, and increase the chances of America developing into a socialist, or even communist, nation. Instead of supporting large businesses, small businesses should gain support, multiply, and expand to counter big name factories and prevent profiteering from affecting all areas of American life.

In The Enterprise Newspaper in Salt Lake, Utah, “American consumers say in a seven-month period their trust in businesses has fallen in 13 of the 15 industries measured, with an overall composite index decline of customer trust of 14%” (Consumers... 12) and the reason for the mistrust is contemptible. Health and human rights scandals have been reported in a multitude of large businesses, and their plentiful money allows for the continuation of their crimes. In the agricultural and food industry, which the public should be able to trust considering that food is vital to all, has been described in The Washington Post as “cynical and often sickening” (Hornaday, “Food Inc...”), two frightening adjectives when used in relation to “healthy” food production. Most towns in America have fast food businesses In their city limits. The businesses helped to “[create] the corporate concentration of agricultural production and the disappearance of the traditional family farm” (Hornaday, “Food Inc...”), and because of the disappearance of small family farms, Americans are steered towards large businesses with ill intentions. If large factories eradicate small business and gain more power, their crimes have potential to advance further. Proved in the Developments In International Criminal Law And The Case Of Business Involvement In International Crimes, some large businesses have been convicted of severe crimes such as “slave labour within business supply chains [and] the funding and supply of armed con?ict through business networks.”(Kyriakakis, 984); advanced crimes designed for advanced powers.

If small business flourishes, the American economy could have a chance of growth and repair. Promoting small business growth will “generate wealth and opportunity for the people in business [and] provide long term employment...”(Gray 11, “Small Businesses...”) for Americans willing to deliver to the public. When big businesses make abrupt mistakes, the economy is forced to feel the impact. For example, the Fortune 500, the top 500 largest companies, “[are] going offshore to asia and taking financial markets with them. They are committing significant financial blunders that impact us all” (Gray 11, Small Businesses...) beginning with the economy as a whole and trickling into each individual’s life. As said in Regional Business News, “According to the office of Comptroller Alan Hevesi, [small business] added 96,417 jobs from 1978 to 1995,while large companies lost 13,505.” (Small Businesses Save...) in New City York alone.
America, proudly supporting democracy and a free market capitalism, has been threatened with a power, pursued by big business, that can potentially tear the country from its roots: Socialism. Socialism promises economic peace, prosperity,equality, “and universal [balance] through the workings of a collectivist state,” (Telzrow, “Socialism’s Broken...”) but those promises are never met. Like a genie’s motives of wish trickery, Socialism grants equality, then watches the nation collapse when people realize that equality doesn’t correspond with justice. Micheal E. Telzrow, a writer for the New American political magazine, mentioned that “Even in the United States, the Utopian economic and political system known as socialism remains attractive to those who are not familiar with its track record of broken promises.” (Telzrow,“Socialism's Broken...”). Nonetheless, big business continues to support socialism and in consequence people ask: Why is socialism pursued? Big businesses strive for socialism because it allows power to become more accessible, and cooperate heads desire more power to fuel profits. Socialism allows business and government to correspond, resulting in the increase of both powers, and an increase of power is usually followed with the accumulation of corruption and the chance of nationwide collapse. An example of the threat of socialism in big business is the California energy crisis of 1996 written about in California: Failed Legacy of Socialism. California energy companies run by socialist powers took “counterproductive measures and unsound economic principles” (Elster 28) so companies were unable “to meet California's growing energy demands [and] rolling blackouts came” (Elster 28) which devastated the state. Socialists “promote big and controlling government with their beliefs that insures failure from its inception.” (Elster 28), and unless one would approve having their identity regulated for a political party with a history of failure, the threat of businesses harnessing socialism should be further addressed. Based off a Christian Science Monitor/Investor's Business Daily/TIPP poll “40 percent of respondents agreed with the statement: "The US is evolving into a socialist state."” (Trumbull, “Is America Becoming...”), therefore, Americans can see the changes happening. The marks of socialism in America has potential to advance into a larger ordeal. Socialism has been called the “twin partner [of] communism” (Telzrow, “Socialism’s Broken...”) because of its roots originating in The Communist Manifesto. Communism is a political party invented by Karl Marx, whose ideas revolved around all property being government owned and citizen’s careers based solely on structurized systems and not their own decisions. Throughout the course of history, a lesson has been learned: a perfect society cannot be run by imperfect humans, and the strive for a utopia (considering that both of these political parties promise a utopia) will be dreadfully countered by the facts of human nature. There will always be a power struggle and the strive for dictatorship, like in Nazi Germany, Communist Cuba, and Communist China, people with higher power “captured personal power by.... building replicas of the one-party systems of a communist world.” (Duignan, 63), and the idea of personal power attainment is what makes socialist/communist parties glamorous to the heads of big business. These two threatening political parties are growing in the nation like a parasite and careful action must be taken to remove them, careful action involving distributing power that big businesses covet to acquire; careful action as simple as supporting small business.

Big businesses granted America innumerable reasons to mistrust their actions by driving the downwards spiralling economy, erasing business ethics, and encouraging the formation of socialism or communism. 2nd and 3rd class Americans are on the path towards dismantlement. Power is transferring to the 1st class; the wealthy business owners. By diverting attention from big business and supporting small business, America has a chance of recovery from past years of decline and a basis for the prevention of country-wide failure.