I'm getting more and more concerned about the current practice of large businesses and corporations who outsource jobs to overseas countries.
I totally understand that a business is in business to make a profit - the bigger the better, as far as the board and stockholders are concerned. As a matter of course, this is the basis of our capitalistic society.
The problem is when is enough, enough?
I'm getting more and more concerned about the current practice of large businesses and corportations who outsource jobs to overseas countries.
I totally understand that a business is in business to make a profit - the bigger the better, as far as the board and stockholders are concerned. As a matter of course, this is the basis of our capitalistic society.
The problem is when is enough, enough? How many thousands, or tens, or hundreds of thousands of living wage jobs can these companies continue to to outsource, before our consumer base has eroded so badly that the entire economy falls in on itself.
It's a matter of math. A community which has supported it's population thru manufacturing jobs since WWII, and collected the tax base those workers provided to expand municipal services like sewer systems, mass transit and public education is now faced with a degrading tax base due to lack of jobs. More jobs, more tax base, more services. Less jobs, less tax base, less services.
The great looming problem is when this scenario is played out nationwide in multiple communities simultaneously.
What we're facing folks, is a catastrophe of historic proportions, and it will make the Great Depression look like a weekend without an ATM.
We've already gotten to the point in America where EVERYONE recognizes that the rich have been getting richer, the poor getting poorer, and the middle class shrinking. The next set point for recognition is when the voting population will wake up and send a message to their duly elected representatives in Congress, to wit:
Rewrite the tax code, or throw it out. It is only working to benefit the wealthy. It unwieldy, too complex, and has so many loopholes that even the IRS can't be certain what it allows or denies in some cases (in late 2003 a woman WON a case regarding back taxes, on the basis that nowhere in the US Tax Code does it state that citizens are REQUIRED to pay tax, it is only referred to as a voluntary tax - blows the mind, eh?).
Demand that the Supreme Court revisit it's 1886 decision that gave corporations 'personhood' and all the rights entailed. This single issue has allowed our nation to become a defacto oligarchy and 'the people' are paying the price. Let's go back to keeping corporations on a tighter leash, one which denies them the right to lobby or influence Congress - after all, those companies have individuals who own them, let them put themselves into the public limelight when they want something from the government, instead of hiding behind hired guns.
Here's the deal. Either we want this nation to continue or we are ready to follow the Roman Empire into the history books. One route takes initiative by the populous, or at the very least, a portion of the populous. The other only requires that we, as a people, do nothing.
I'll end with a quote.
"Evil flourishes where good men do nothing"