A Question To Put To The FWeeper* On Social Security Privatization.

[norml]

On the one hand, follow the money. The Bush family and friends have
made most of their money in two areas, oil and investment banking.
This is also pushed by the ideology that if it's a government
program, it's got to be taken apart. That taking the government apart
appeals to many FWeepers*, but they should ask themselves a
question. Who do you trust more? Do you trust the Government to
handle your money, or do you trust Investment Bankers working with
the Government to handle your money? *FWeeper, as in Fwee Wepubwic

[No Exit]

1. Exactly! And may I add:

WHO is really "the government", with the Bush cabal in power? We all know that numerous humongous corporations are being given free rein to use our country, and its citizens, in any way they choose. For example, OUR military is being used to protect/expand THEIR profits in the middle east.

So WHO is "the government"? That question occurred to me as I read a thread on a semi-wingnut site (libertypost.org) this morning. It was a thread about Weyco, a company which says it will fire any of its employees who smoke--any of them who smoke anywhere, anytime, not just on the job.

One wingnut commented: "Let Weyco do what it wants. After all, it's THEIR job." Now that would be tolerable if there were no blending of "the private sector" with the public sector. If our government had not been hijacked for the exclusive use of corporations like Weyco, the wingnut might have had a small point.

But corporations ARE the government at the moment. The government has been taken over by a bunch of oil men who are turning its uses exclusively to the aid of corporations. The "big government" and the big corporations are intertwined. What chance does a single employee have against such force? None.

We wanted a representative government. If the government has morphed into an oligarchy of corporations, then we are entitled to representation within said oligarchy. It's supposed to be OUR government.

I also can't help but wonder if Weyco is one of those companies (like Wal-mart) which maintains life insurance policies on its chattel--oops, I mean, on its employees. What gives big employers the right to insure the lives of their employees and to rake in the life insurance proceeds when one of them dies? I doubt many of those employers pay any sort of death benefit to survivors. The life insurance proceeds go to the employer, period.

The corporations currently hold medical insurance policies on behalf of their employees, and pay at least part of the premiums. That, of course, is probably what is behind Weyco's new rule.

I know smoking is bad for one's health. If it's this bad, how come it hasn't been made against the law?