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When
will American's wake up and realize that it is the noble corporation,
the keeper of all that is right and just, that must be the focus of
all our laws and institutions? By enabling and encouraging the large
corporation, mere freedom and liberty is transcended by providing
greater profits to the shareholders. America is based on this
fundamental principle in spite of the whining of little groups of
failed so-called upholders of liberty. They should realize that the
only liberty that matters is the liberty of the large corporation. It
is from these corporations that all the good in our world originates. Our entire political system is dedicated to empowering the large corporation.
As
the movie, Network (1976), so presciently puts it, in putting
words into the mouth of the Chairman of the Board of the eponymous
network,
A lecture on Globalization
"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today."
And
so, with this so clearly expressed back in 1976, why do we have to
listen to mere Noble prize winning economists like this Joseph
Stiglitz who is running down the Trans Pacific Partnership? Who is he to say that this is the "worst treaty every negotiated"? President Obama had the interests of all Americans at heart when he tried
to steamroller this treaty through congress without discussion. Sure this treaty was negotiated in secret without the input of the citizens of the various nations but so what? Look at what Globalization has brought to all the citizens of this great nation: poverty, the destruction of organized labor, the exploitation of enslaved people around the world. Shouldn't that be enough to establish a little trust here?
Joseph Stiglitz going on and on about economic inequity again
In America, our entire political system is dedicated to empowering the large corporation. As
it has always been. As it will always be.
Its for our own good.
You
can read about Dr. Stiglitz's rant here:
The
IMDB page for Network (1976) is here:
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