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From the early days of Ronald Reagan
to the upside down world of Swartzy, the current governor of California,
the issue that perhaps has most divided the people of the United States
are the protected and spoon fed "income streams" of the corporations.
These "for profit" income streams were created from public services that
were privatized to yield unbelievably vast income streams that benefit
only the privileged few. The vehicle that does the stealing and the
profiting for these few are the capitalistic multi-national corporations
and their 37,000 lobbyists in Washington D.C.
What has been taken in these
criminal seizures of public facilities are things like public
transportation, public libraries, public utilities, almost the entire
prison system, along with the practice of medicine that has been turned
into a roulette wheel run by bean-counters who measure office visits
against the companies' bottom lines.
These offensively oriented
corporations each have their own brand-names: and Americans apparently
love to wear these brands. Our clothing is replete with corporate brands,
our sporting events reek of corporate patronage-which the public buys in
vast quantities. So what has happened since the days of the company store?
The company store of today is every major corporation, many of which are
larger that most countries. They own the credit system, the banks, and the
politicians, the education community and largely they "own" most of us
indirectly, by the controls they have taken over this society. As
corporations they OWN the legislative process, they receive Corporate
Welfare on a scale that dwarfs anything handed out as welfare or Social
Security. They quietly have come to own the legislature and the White
House, while they continue to receive huge tax breaks, denying the people
that needed help to survive, when people's incomes are slashed, while
their taxes are increased accordingly through fee increases on a myriad of
services compounded by an endless paper chase that makes a living hell out
of so many lives.
The folk-ballad says:
"You load sixteen tons and
what do you get-another day older and deeper in debt! St. Peter don't you
call me cause I can't go-I owe my soul to the company store!"
In today's world the coal mines
and the Railroad Barons, along with the Robber Barons have been replaced
by faceless corporations that rule with iron fists from their towers of
gleaming glass and steel in the hearts of major population centers around
the world.
Ronnie, as governor of
California, closed California's mental facilities and threw the patients
into the streets, as a cost cutting measure. Then he pioneered the idea
that public transportation needed to make money - and could no longer just
be a tax-supported way for ordinary people to get where they needed to go.
When he became president he applied this "idea" to the nation: hence
the decline of public transportation, which exacerbated the homeless
problems that deepened because of the newly dumped addicts and mental
patients along with societies' misfits. Many of these people lost the help
they needed to be productive members of society and instead became a
public drain upon the shrinking assets of an otherwise healthy society.
The creation of these twisted purposes behind the upending of public
services is directly attributable to what the government casually refers
to as the creation of "income streams." That is a misnomer -
what this involves is the siphoning off of tax-supported public services
that were converted to corporate profits at the expense of the general
public that had created them with tax dollars in the first place, to
offset the costs to the poor and working classes, to be able to survive.
In effect the "company store" of old has become that monster that
owns everything from your cell phone to what is played on your i-pod, to
the films you watch and the media that you try and get information from.
This can be summed up as food for the Barracuda's of Business, who have
quietly taken over virtually every area of your life from the companies
you work for, to the food you eat, to the thoughts you think you need to
think about: not-to-mention the thoughts that you must not think, because
if you visit those forbidden thoughts then you shall become an enemy of
the state! This has to change!
 Corporations have far too much
power. The only thing that currently determines the outcome of all our
elections is about how much money can be raised. That was the topic on all
the Sunday talk shows this morning. Corporations have unlimited funds for
this purpose-and they are not shy about utilizing every avenue both legal
and illegal to win the battle of the political war chests, needed to
re-confirm, their ownership of all that matters to the population of this
country that used to be a nation.
Citizens no longer get tax-dollar
help from the government-because all that money goes to the ever-larger
and anti-human corporate interests who increasingly divert our money into
the purchase of war-making and all those industries that contribute so
heavily to that form of death and destruction that creates new
opportunities for re-construction of all that their wars destroy. However,
the portion of tax-dollars that will aid these corporations in their
growth and dominance increases hourly, along with those corporate
protections that have insulated the corporations from all but the most
heinous of crimes. This while working people watch their lives be torn
apart by dead-end work without a future!
So go ahead and live your
"very busy lives" and continue to ignore what is staring you in
the face. Listen to the Schwarzenegger's of present day California when
they tell you that all people, including the unemployed MUST have
"ACCESS to Health care." Notice that he does not say that
everyone must have HEALTH-CARE - NO, he wants to sell the poor
health-insurance which is a promise without a benefit! And that's only one
of the ploys to create an ever larger income stream for the Insurance
industry that in the case of medicine is practicing an on-going fraud,
because of policies that terminate the insurance the minute something
serious happens to the policy holder.
Corporations are not people, they
have become Tyranny incorporated and as currently chartered they can live
forever with all the rights of a person, yet they have none of the
responsibilities. Every time you buy something from one of these
sharks-please understand that they do not have your best interests at
heart-quite the opposite! You are expected to support these institutions
upon pain of being fired or charged with some form of being anti-American.
To the world at large these
corporate giants are often seen as sharks, but the sharks see their
customers worldwide as possible Barracuda that collectively might decide
to attack them and put them out of business-hence their need for
legalistic protections for their various extortions and frauds, seen
through their threadbare velvet gloves that try to hide the naked steel of
their grip upon the millions of lives, which their greed and arrogance
creates. All the efforts of The New World Order and the
"FREE-Trade" association legislation is aimed directly at
freeing the corporations from any and all restrictions-as surely as it is
focused on enslaving those who must work to survive!
These wars that almost all of us
are terrified of have also provided very useful smokescreens, to allow for
the expansion of those powers that have tightened the corporate death grip
which threatens everyone not enslaved already! People the world over must
come together to stop the wars, remove and punish the insiders and get
back to "questioning everything!" In 2008 there must not be any
FREE-SPEECH ZONES encased in razor wire and miles from the platform where
supposed candidates come to campaign or debate. This nation was supposed
to offer a public forum in the marketplace of ideas, especially during
elections - and not simply to become a fixed travesty that supports only
the moneyed view. Either we find a way to reclaim our rights to free and
public speech or we can forget about all that high-blown BS about having
anything like a real democracy! This is especially true during the current
false-flag wars for corporate dominion over the resources of the world.
This can only "be" your world if you are involved in what happens in it!
Jim Kirwan
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