No End in Sight | The Smirking Chimp

No End in Sight | The Smirking Chimp


Corporations
Corporations are the enemy. The bigger they are the more they are the enemy.

They have no intention of creating jobs or Americans. Their goal is to produce goods and provide services with as few workers and as few employees as possible.

In theory, the ultimate goal would be to buy and sell $5 trillion in credit default swaps or derivatives without having a single employee other than a CEO, CFO, COO, and a few dozen Executive Staff Members, each with their own Executive Assistant (secretary/typist with short skirt and big breasts). And of course, the Board of Directors, consisting of their buddies and good friends from other Big Corporations (on whose Board they themselves sit).

Of course there are those annoying shareholders but then again the CEO hold tens of millions of shares and the Executive Staff tens of millions more, so everything is under control.

Big Corporations are no more than "Communist-like entities". They are like a mini version of the USSR where all planning is by the "Central Government"----the Executive Staff. The Dictator is the CEO. The Communist Central Planning Committee --CEO, CFO, COO, HR VP, etc.---decide their own salaries and bonues in secret. The Communist Politboro---shareholders---all attend yearly meetings where only applause and wild cheering is allowed.

I think that the current stimulus plan's flaw is that it is relying on Big Corporations to save the day. They only want to save themselves.

The current goal of Corporations is to lay off ever more Americans. This is the opposite of what is needed. As more and more get laid off, more and more will need to be laid off--------until the full weight, power, might and funds of the Federal Government bring it to a halt.

We have a dire need to educate our children and young adults. What is happening? We are laying off teachers; permitting millions of high school students to drop out; and making college unaffordable. Thats not the way to "save" our educational system. I see no practical solutions being initiated or implemented. Student loans are not the answer. That's the answer if the question is "how do we enrich banking more"? If our solution to education is to make lifelong debtors out of students who graduate from college for which there are no job prospects-----we are delusional.

Healthcare. The insurance companies are coming in for the kill. Their goal is to insure only healthy people who submit no claims OR to charge monthly premiums that extort nearly every extra dollar that every American may have. Their greed knows no limits. I hate to use the "Nazi anology" but the insurance companies are like the Nazi concentration camp guards. We are the Jewish inmates. We will have our entire live savings, our fortunes, our homes, our property, all confiscated in exchange for the slightest glimmer of hope that somehow they will decide we can live.

When you are out of money they'll take the clothes off your back, your suitcases, your eyeglasses, they'll cut your hair and use that too, and extract any gold from your teeth. That is the insurance industry. They are conscience-less.

They work in 10,000 insurance office buildings scattered throughtout the nation. Some are shiny glass skyscrapers with their names and logos next to the helipad on the 70th floor roof. Others are luxurious sprawling office parks in pricey suburbs. They house 1 million paper pushers sitting in their cubicles making daily decisions about whether you should live or die; whether you should be in horiffic terrifying phyical pain, or be entitled to some temporary relief.

They are experts in the 1500 policies they offer with the 500,000 itemized rules and regulations that are like an obstacle course in claims denials, appeals processes, appeals to appleals, COBRA and ERISCA stipulations, deductibles, copays, reasonable and customary charges, out-of-pocket expenses, maximum lifetime limits, limitations, authorizations, denial of authorizations, maximum hospital stay limits, maximum daily benefits, pre-existing conditions, acute care maximium benefits, annual limitiations, anniversary dates, open enrollment periods (a euphemism for saying there is a closed enrollment period), termination clauses, etc. etc. etc.

I've heard it all.

They also have an army of lawyers whose soul purpose is to prevent them from being sued for killing people.

And they have another army of lawyers whose soul purpose is to see that the people are killed.

They know who the enemy is. The enemy is the sick, the ill, the frail, the injured, the suffering, those in chronic pain, those with chronic diseases, those who submit claims.

You are the enemy. Getting well takes too much time and too much money. Continuing on to death is much more efficient, much more profitable. The idea is to get you off the books as a policyholder.

America has had a good run with Capitalism, but the utter greed of large Corporations has perverted its essence. There is no longer any such thing as a "free market". The "market" consists of several dozen, extremely large "Communist-like" entities that have their tenacles choking every aspect of our Federal, State and local governments.

You rarely see a "small business" in a Mall. In some towns, entire "Mainstreets" of small businesses have be replaced by store after store owned by large Corporations.

College graduates who graduate this June are in for a rude awakening. They will be competing with illegal immigrants for lawn cutting jobs. 2010 will be worse.

The only way Corporations can increase their profitablity today is to layoff more people in order to be more profitable at selling fewer goods and services, in which case they then have to lay off even more.

Our overall problem is that we are expecting the enemy to solve the problems that they caused.

For that matter, why is Obama asking the Generals on the ground what to do in Iraq and Afghanistan.

HE is the General on the ground. HE is the Commander-in-Chief.

Time is marching on.

Submitted by JamesPB on April 11, 2009 - 4:06pm.