their incomeas tax for its social amelioration program and, at the same, provides conditions for business to flourish and grow in termsofincentives that oftentimes go against theinterest of labor . Underthis system, the governmenthas to perform a balancing act between the poorandtherich, which is an unenviablerole. But,as it is in a capitalist economy, the government including the parliament operates as an adjunct ofbusiness. Therich either occupy positions of power in governmentorelect or cause theelection for their men to power. Lawsandpolitics are tailored to their desire. For, in the first place, these laws are synthesis of developments brought aboutwith the transactional relation between and among menandthe forces of production and the interaction of market forces directed, if not manipulated, mainly by purveyors of fortune who are mostlyselfish pilers of profit and by employers of men whoare mostly oppressors and exploiters of Jabor--- all in the class of Cain---and they hold the levers of powers andinfluence the course of nationalpolicies as kingmakers or occupantsof the throne themselves. During the ages of colonization ushered into new heights after the intervention of steamboats in the 1800s, most of these lawgivers were the mercantilist dons who bought gold bars with spectacles, combs, and linen cloth, amongothertrifles. In mainly feudaltimes, they were the slaveholder and compradors who owned fiefdoms and appropriated their farmhandsasserfs. In agrarian societies, they are the landlords who hold in bondage their peasants andtenants with loans that bear abominantly usuriousinterests. Amongthe denizensofthecapitalist world and the emerging federal capitalist world order, these lawgivers are mostly the representatives of corporate giants and the builders of economic empires that traverse national boundaries and control the economiesof host countries. It is these humongous hordes of arcadian leeches, business sharks, and capitalist magpies---nominal Christians and Muslims that they are —who, by the instrument of government, destroy ourreligion, replacing the invisible God with the omnipresent money. By their wealth, they make their way to the corridors of power. Inside the high-rise structures and fortresses of cement and steel overlooking the world, they look down on other towers of powers and, from their elevatedisolation, all other competing citadels become peripheral. The Church and the Mosque are relegated to minorcenters ofactivity, with its high priests and imams onthecharity of big business. The parliament becomes an adjunct structure of power wherebig businessis also the dominantinterest. In brief, our legal structureis tailoredtofit the interest of the biggies in our society and if, perchance, somepolicies jived with the religious sentiments of the people, these were a sort of serendipity, not a deliberate design of the power-that-be. Nevertheless, in the final analysis, the success of the social market economy as instrument for growth for the poor would dependlargely upon the depth of the social concern and civic-mindedness of businessman themselves. But does the government have the right policy to instill in the hearts of businessmana senseof responsibility? 29