Was the US Gov set up to help businesses make money, or to protect the quality of life for all it's people?

Our country's territory and the people in it are being taken over by Large corporate interests, that see all natural resources as well as the actual citizens of the country as nothing more than a means to an ends of acquiring material gain for the individual stock holders and corporate officers. This is being done at great expense to the common good. Is there really any question that those in our government who facilitate this atrocity are traitors?