Just Ask Mr. Knowitall

“I’m particularly concerned that his [Obama's] increasingly triangulating, anti-deficit administration will do the wrong thing, morally and politically, and move to the right, without understanding that some right-wing rage could be rechanneled by acknowledging its roots: That the economic system seems rigged for the have-a-lots v. the have-a-littles, and despite their promises, the Democrats haven’t done enough to change that. Palin can’t change any of that, but Obama can. There’s still time for him to do so, but the clock is ticking.”

-Joan Walsh, from “I Have Palin Fatigue Already”
www.salon.com/author/joan_walsh/index.html

I agree. Our underlying problem is inequity and lack of government planning and regulation. Without a strong minimum wage, corporate regulation, and a strong monetary policy, we will not have prosperity and wealth for any but the few multi-millionaires at the top. What we will have if we do not re-regulate business and the economy is a continual erosion and economic free-fall for the majority of us– the workers and employees who actual produce the product that the GNP is based on. We will also continue to suffer a government “of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.” OK, I guess that’s not quite accurate. It’s more like “a government of the corporate piratical elite, by the corporate piratical elite, and for the corporate piratical elite.”

By this I am referring to predator corporate pirates*, having no allegiance to any one corporation, considered and considering themselves as silk-suited, Gucci-clad corporate super-stars, able to lead corporations into higher stock values and hang the expense; able to command huge salaries, bonuses, and contract termination fees with only the promise that they will strive to raise the stock value for the other sharks feeding frenzy, only to move on when that corporation falters or has been sucked dry. Corporate piratical predator elite who, having their personal wealth creation now independent of any single corporation, are no longer fettered with loyalty to any single corporation or to corporations in general. Corporations are now just part of the herd to slaughter and feed off of as needed to rake in as big a personal pile as possible. Predators who have long determined that the government is the fattest steer in the lot, and have been spending and continue to spend the bulk of their attentions and efforts to twist it around to their bidding. Who work with a single-minded doggedness that huge piles of individual wealth allows, to infiltrate and subvert the governments real and valid role as a buffer between these pirate elites and the huge corporations they steer and the rest of us– the regular “Joe-workers/employees/small business owners/entrepreneurs/contractors,etc.”

And so they strive. Not for any public good. Not for fiscal responsibility. Not for Family Values. Not for Christian values. But only for their own single-minded, to-hell-with-anyone-else Darwinian greed.

A government of the corporate piratical predator elite, by the corporate piratical predator elite, and for the corporate piratical predator elite.

-Mr. K. Nov. 17, 2009

*read “The Predator State,” by James K. Galbraith for a far more lucid discussion of this idea.

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