I want the Government to work for me and for Corporations, for the big and the little. It needs to work for the poor and the rich and for those that have and have not. Right now that's not the case, it works for those who have the most and it does it very well.
The Government surely had no problem bailing out the banks now did it? That program ran like clockwork, handing out money like it was water. But well, we were told it was going to avoid the collapse of Western Civilization (and I'm not going to argue this because many believe that to be the case).
But it's not about being against the private or the public sector for me. It's about knowing that each has its place in the world and that they serve a purpose. And for somethings, for me, I believe that profit driven business is not best suited for life and death in some cases.
As many progressives have said, they feel health care is one of those vital issues. Sure though, we have corporations that are not Government run that do health care, Kaiser Permanente is not Government run and is Not for profit, yes?
But that's not the whole issue here, it's far more complicated. And I'm not the guys who argue the details, I'm not one of those guys who can give you the numbers, the links and the great tag lines.
All I know is this, Corporations have had a strangle hold on Government for far too long dictating who gets elected and who doesn't. They've held back progressive legislation from higher gas mileage on our cars to shipping our jobs overseas so that cheap labor means higher profits for their CEO's and their board of directors.
There is a reason why they spend millions on Lobbyists in Washington every year to get their way on every issue possible and why they've managed to monopolize such things as our food supply to our energy supply.
It's not about corporations existing, they can continue to exist of course, we need corporations, Government was never meant to do everything. But they can't continue to run our Country into the ground and continue to create the class divide of those who have and those who can't even afford the boots from which they can pull themselves up by.
As more control of these vital resources are centralized the less control the ordinary person has over their lives. Food is a huge part of this issue as well as energy.
The little people have less to say and less and less is about you and I and more and more goes to the Corporations, who can say that even though they can borrow money from the Government at close to 0% they will continue to refuse to refinance and modify home loans to those in dire need of a break.
Yay, that one really chaps my ass.
Bank of America can borrow money FROM the Government at 0% and yet refuses to refinance or modify loans for those in most need because they can. And they can charge as much as they want on the credit cards they hold because they can.
And so again, the Government, that is supposed to represent both us and them in some kind of semblance of balance can't because they are so intimately tied together, corporatocracy.
It's not anti-corporatism, it's anti-corporatocracy. We are tired of our Government being run by corporations that don't care anything about families struggling everyday to meet their needs in masse.
Sure they can say they care, but as they rubber stamp every rejection of a home modification for a family that's about to lose their home, they show it's all about business.
Which is fine. But because they Government can't do what it's supposed to do , it's Business and protect the American consumer for greed gone wild, then the system is not working as it should.
Corporatocracy...
And yes, you can argue all you want, until your blue in your face that even if the banks modify that many of those people wills till default, they will still lose their homes, etc. etc. It's not the point.
And yes, I probably miss a lot of points not knowing the full details, not knowing and understanding how the system works. But this is from my eyes, an ordinary progressive who has lost hope.
A progressive who has been unemployed for 8 months, who can't get a loan modification, who can't afford to buy a new furnace, who has chronic health issues and who thankfully has health care.
My point is this, it's far more complicated than "anti" corporatism and "pro". It's about who is working for me and you and who is wielding power behind those closed doors. It sure isn't me.