Friday, May 27, 2011
Last Mountain, see it
Years of mergers and buy-outs have delivered to the market place ever larger and more parasitic corporations who cannot care about the community or the nation. Their only responsibility is to profit and the stock holders and board. They are godless entities in the Biblical sense, parasites, moneychangers in the temple. Their market democracy imperative is two-fold; profit and influence. Their interest does not even extend to the financial security of the nation, or the well being of the community, in fact they are often in conflict with it. They will do everything they can to hide and keep their money separate from the common good of the nation they feed on.
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One of the first things politicians and coal industry do is use fear. Fear that stopping this or slowing it will reduce employment. I work in heavy machinery industry, not coal, but it relates. Bigger, faster, more automated equipment means fewer jobs. In the last few years as coal production has increased the number of people needed has fallen a lot. The coal industry is putting more people out of work than the EPA has so far, by one hell of a lopsided number. The same in the northwest lumber industry where the spotted owl is still the whipping boy of guys out of work, but the woods are full of giant pinchers and loaders, 6 guys now do what 50 did in clearing trees.
ReplyDeleteNew machinery is another contributor for this jobless recovery, and with self checkouts at the grocery and ATM's, were all playing into it.
Fringe:
ReplyDeleteSo many of these megacorporations are global entities now. They owe no allegiance to any particular nation.
Whit,
ReplyDeleteTheir lord is profit. Be it in euros, dollars, dinars, rupees, or yen, it matters not.
Ron
Shocking comparison when you look at some of those beautiful green areas one minute, and black scorched earth the next.
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