Ellen wondered why GE should keep getting tax breaks while, say, her own mother should have to try to live on even less than she already does.
I think about the downward spiral of our recent history, and who got us here and why we can't seem to do anything about it.
I suppose that since the People( who pay the bills incurred by the government as well as the salaries in Washington) have been gotten by the throat a long time ago and didn't notice that these same government stooges- and the corporations who run them (not all elected officials are stooges of the corporations but enough of them are)- are robbing public treasuries. They think we will not notice what they, as servants of ALL, are actually doing, like selling out to GE, et al, and the war contractors via the pentagon, etc, because we haven't raised much of a fuss before. Only Radicals and Anarchists do that sort of stuff. We nice middle class people just keep paying the bills.
GE is still one of the biggest government war materials contractors at anytime, Peacetime - what is that?- or war time. I did a search for GE as an arms dealer on line.
Anyway, the power elites are still on the road to rob us of everything WE think is a good idea, i.e. taking care of people in their old age (or in their disability), or those younger people who find themselves robbed by the now infamous Gamblers on Wall Street, or, as children who are helpless and homeless, along with their parents who used to be able to provide for them and no longer can because big corporations have moved so many jobs off shore.
I suppose those who love money and power more than anything else -including their own good names- heavens, what is that worth on the open market?- don't care as long as the people keep supplying a robust 75 to 80% of the economy supported with their domestic purchasing power; the people are expected to willingly do this, along with producing the next generation of people for resource expeditions to foreign lands, as well as bleating, sheep-like, while voting an impossible ticket! That would be a ticket that changed nothing because of the entrenched permanent bureaucracy that keeps moving through the revolving doors of the Capitol, as well as the look alike parties who all want the MONEY floating around like MANNA in the Alpine, rarefied atmosphere of Washington DC and the Pentagon.
Now it's probably time to post more pictures of flowers, so that we will know where they have all gone to. Yes?
GE also makes a ton of money on there management consulting business (who's main business it union busting) It's not a nice company . for a while they were running "EcoImagination" commercials for clean water--and at the same time fighting tooth and nail and dragging their feet about cleaning up PCB's in the Hudson river.
ReplyDeleteThey are all for clean water when the consumer has to pay for their filtering processes.. but against it when it about them cleaning up their messes!
Whoa! They are dirty through and through. I think they are part of the vulture capitalism culture which has taken hold here and around the Globe.
ReplyDeleteSo, they are PR for various managements are they? What next? Running secret prisons in far off countries for dissidents? That seems appropriate for them, in their next re-invention of their business model.