OUR way of life........The Corpocracy at work

[serryjw]

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1)As an increasing number of individual proprietors are driven to extinction, Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, and hundreds more leviathan corporations continue their rapid construction of more houses of worship to serve their zealous congregation
2)Good little Consumers can receive a veritable cornucopia of “blessings” which include working in jobs amounting to indentured servitude, obesity, insurmountable debt, insularity from the rest of the world, unwitting support of a merciless militaristic regime which is evolving into fascism, idolatrous worship of celebrities and money, facilitation of obscene concentration of wealth into the hands of a few, and participation in the severe desecration of our environment
3)America embodies ruthless exploitation of humanity and the Earth. In the capitalist paradigm, human beings and the planet are simply material objects which exist to fulfill the desires of the bourgeoisie masters. Imperialism and Neoliberalism go hand in glove with Capitalism. Insatiable greed and objectification do not respect borders or boundaries.
4)Consider that over half of our presidents came from families ranking amongst the wealthiest 3% of Americans while at least a dozen sprang from the loins of elitists in the top 1%.
5)In 2004, the United States had 374 billionaires and 7.5 million millionaires (about 2% of the population). The wealthiest Americans possessed $11 trillion in assets. Meanwhile 13% of Americans lived below poverty level. 6)
6)
More than 99% of American businesses have fewer than 500 employees and account for less than 37% of all business sales.

Elite corporations (those employing more than 5,000 people) comprise a fraction of the remaining 1% of American businesses, yet ring up over 40% of sales.

Within specific business sectors, corporate monopolists shine brightly. The fifty largest banks control over 35% of bank assets in the United States.

The largest 100 corporations alone account for over 46% of corporate net income after taxes.

1% of Americans own more stock than the 90% of us who dwell at the bottom of Bush’s “ownership society”.

http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2006/05/american-capitalism-and-moral-poverty.html

QUOTES of the day

quote........
>"We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its
>population.... In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy
>and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern
>of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of
>disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we
>will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our
>attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national
>objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the
>luxury of altruism and world benefaction... We should cease to talk about
>vague and--for the Far East--unreal objectives such as human rights, the
>raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far
>off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less
>we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."
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http://www.transnational.org/forum/meet/2004/Galtung_USempireFall.html>http://www.transnational.org/forum/meet/2004/Galtung_USempireFall.html
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>"The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the
> >world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those
> >ends, we will do a fair amount of killing".
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http://www.transcend.org/t_database/articles.php?ida=61>http://www.tran

[eallen]

1. Ah. You're for the individual proprietor, then?

Something tells me you've never started or run a business, of any size.

:hippie:

[serryjw]

3. ????

HHH

huh?

2. I hope the beast falls of its own weight - it has no plan

for the future. It is in the game for the here and now (kind of Zen actually, but not in a good way).:-)