CORPORATE REALITY 10/21/09

Large multi national corporations have long demonstrated no loyalty for their country of origin. They are solely out for the perpetuation of their own self-preservation. Acting as a nation-state, they are no different than another country or political entity we feel is counter-productive to our wellbeing. As a process of protecting our national security from against, say, Al-Qaeda, Iran, or North Korea, we now have to view corporations who don’t care about the havoc they unleash on our society, while in the process of maximizing their profits.

These entities are economic organisms that must grow in order to survive. If they happen to demonstrate loyalty to us, it is only because, serendipitously, there was a profit motive. It’s their aloofness and arrogance, the total disconnect to the reality of consequence because they answer to their shareholders and board member’s personal greed, not the consumer. This single sensibility continually proves to be destructive to the greater society. It is not about the common good and the necessity to balance both. The corporations of the financial world are solely administrative. The only product they make is profit for profit sake.

Our government has been so thoroughly corrupted by corporate lobbying dollars; it has taken on its own persona as a corporate structure. It, too, is out for its own self-preservation and is implicitly responsible for allowing the elimination of the middleclass. A democracy cannot survive without a middleclass.

Our middleclass was not formed by our government, but by unions such as the coal miner’s, steel and automotive. General Motors, along with Ford and Chrysler, once made the greatest cars in the world. Forty-five years ago, if considered a nation, GM was the fifth wealthiest. Because of the vast numbers of employees required to run the automotive industry and how the other large unions proved strong enough to guarantee their members a fair equity for their labor, by example, other smaller unions were able to bring fair reward to their respective labor forces, resulting in our country growing healthily because of the inevitable emerging middleclass.

Deregulation, the subsequent destruction of the labor unions and the devolution of our corporate national identity, i.e. “American Made,” has not only devolved into just a corporate identity, but “American Made,” once the conquering boast of the world, is now a warning. Because of corporate greed, all the manufacturing jobs have been sent overseas to be executed by a much cheaper labor force. Of the available jobs left, the working class salaries have stagnated for years and are, in fact, lower than they were ten years ago. With billions of the world’s underclass desperate and willing to work for thirty cents an hour, how can our economy survive when one must clear twenty dollars an hour to remain in the middle class?

The middle class has been burdened with the sole responsibility to pay taxes while our corporations continue to steel from this tax base, contributing relatively nothing themselves, in spite of their huge and growing profitability. Higher education has become unaffordable, public education has devolved into a joke. Good solid healthcare has been violated by the greed of the insurance industry. The products we eat have all been tampered with: sixty percent of our food is a variation of corn; livestock, poultry and fish are not fed naturally, but on synthesized nutrients supplemented with antibiotics and steroids. And then, there’s the “fast food industry...” We are becoming obese and more susceptible to various diseases from eating this processed food. When does it end?

THIS IS TREASON!

Unless we find corporations innovative and accountable for quality and craftsmanship, to be ecology sensitive, as well as responsible for paying workers a fair wage and share equally in the tax burden that all citizens are required to pay, this devolution will not only continue, but ultimately collapse our nation.

The United States has been duplicitous in its relentless poisoning of America, our most precious Constitution. If “America” is allowed to die, the world will become enslaved in indentured servitude under the yoke of a single multi national conglomerate.

If this isn’t considered a conscious war against our wellbeing and the Constitutional guarantee for the promotion of the “common good,” then I don’t know what is.

IT IS TIME FOR REVOLUTION! The status quo does not work. The system is incongruous to the reality of wellbeing.

We must restore our most precious Constitution and guarantee: healthcare, education and infrastructure to our citizens, and most importantly, corporate accountability.