I'm gonna catch hell for sure after this but it needs to be repeated. It is something I have been saying for a few years now. Probably why I can't catch a flight without getting harassed. Anyway, in the wake of this whole mess with BP I feel I can once again resoundingly utter: Not until the petite bourgeoisie and the proletariat start hanging these corporate pricks at the gallows will big business get the message. I hate to say it like that because InI teach love, love, love. But these people refuse to humble themselves by any measure. Their love of money has become the bane of our existence. Someone should shear off their heads and kick them around the soccer pitch. Now that would make a World Cup that the entire globe would watch.
I mean isn't there a way to earn money, to successfully earn money, that is also socially responsible? This land of america so fervently fought communism, and maybe justifiably so, it (communism) too has flaws in reason. ( Let it said though that there were ulterior motives for fighting the "Red Scourge".) But capitalism for all it's worth has a flaw all it's own. For the only way to reach the pinnacle of success as a capitalist, mass quantities of people have to shoulder the burden, carry your load. Either as labour or consumer. My father showed me something growing up and I am content to live by it. You can only be comfortable while eating, if everyone else is eating. Otherwise all you ever do is watch who's watching you eat.
Listen, I'm not knocking people earning money (only the mint "makes" money unless you are counterfeiting), but C'MON SON. All that money BP is making and CEO Tony Hayward can't even buy a decent enough personality; if even just for the purposes of making the prerequisite "I've been a dickhead but we're are going to manage this problem" television ad campaign.
And trust me, I know people are going to sit here and defend capitalism til the cows come home. That's fine. There really isn't any truly perfect system. I'm also sure that someone, in their infinite wisdom, will begin to poke all sorts of holes in my rationale and that's cool. These are just a few of the thoughts that come to mind each time I hear these corporate giants talking on the news this past decade. Again I am not advocating for anyone to take Tony Hayward, or any of the rest of the worlds corporate pricks for that matter, by the hand to the gallows or shooting range. Just saying I will certainly understand when they start to do just that. Whatever became of the guillotine?
Just my two cents.....
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