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Please tell me you're kidding. You think public schools do a good job with that? Why is it that the vast majority of Americans are big-government folks? I know conservatives claim not to be, but it's obvious that most don't really mean it. The "Patriot" Act is a horrifying case in point. Also, students are generally only treated to one version of our history - that is, the nationalist one created by the sickening Justice Marshall and the equally disgusting Alexander Hamilton, and propogated by the likes of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln. Rarely, if ever, do they get the other side, offered by the majority of the Founders, John Calhoun, and recent historian Thomas Woods, not to mention countless others, who's opinions are a good deal more authoritative than the ones on the other side.
Rest assured, I do my best to get a wide variety of opinions on these issues; for the Constitution, obviously, the best sources are those who created or had a large influence on the creation of the Constitution. It's practically unanimous that it's a limiting document that can be improved by Amendment. The Constitution is - was - a strong document BECAUSE it is a limited and limiting document. It was created to secure our freedoms from government infringement, and to restrain the power of the Federal Government, while retaining the power of the sovereign States.
Trust me, no corporation would be careless with a nuke plant. The public is already suspicious, perhaps a little unjustly, of nuclear power, and there's no way in heck a company would be stupid enough to cut corners on one of those. The sheer cost of constructing a plant in the first place would prevent such idiocy, and the potential wrath of the public would provide another huge incentive to keep the plant safe. As for our politicians "caring" about our people, some of them do. Quite a few really don't. Politicians are just as greedy as any corporation, possibly more so, and they don't have to worry mcuh about losing their jobs - blame it on capitalism and get re-elected. That's how FDR did it, that's how they still do it. Besides, they all have "golden parachutes."
As for your comparison to Third World countries, have you not noticed that, with the exception of Somalia*, the government is completely overbearing and tyrranical? The sick fact is that most of the large companies are run by people in the government, who have no incentive for safety. After all, they have government guns and other people's money at their disposal.
* I say this because Somalia, as you probably know, has no real government, being divided into roughly 30 different Islamic factions, in addition to the "official" government.
