Slab,

My comments aren't about the United States government, per se, but the idea of government. I was merely countering someone's assertion that government was not self-sustaining. There are examples in history of government types not relying on any outside entity to exist.

It's not so much that a government insists on being involved in businesses' affairs, it's rather that part of government's role is to print and vaule currency. Business depends on that for capital. Business cannot survive without government as a stakeholder.