This was originally a post on reddit.com, that expanded far beyond what that demanded, which was literally "you are ignorant". The poster was saying that basically what is good for business is good for the United States. I disagreed and still disagree. Business in this day has been very bad for all of us, and I wish there were more sense in regulations, beaucracy, etc. Unfortunely, I live in an age where everything has seemed to reach the tipping point. I believe I am a Libertarian Socialist....So my sister coded me!!!! Whatever I am, below is my response to the "Business is good for the US" post. What is good for business is bad for humans. Indisputably, undeniably bad. Profit for medicine? Bad. Profit for utilities? Bad. Profit for roads? Bad. Profit for food? Bad. Profit for schools, bad. Profit for politicians? Particularly bad. Profit off another? I know this is the current system, and I know it pays the bill, but how could we do it different? If you didn't worry about your healthcare, if it was freely available, how would that affect your life? Pretty awesome, huh? If you didn't have to worry about shelter, utilites, or food and clothing? Truly, truly, awesome. Then you could really do what called you. You could dedicate your time and talents to awesomeness. What a dream. It is possible. We have the technology and the resources. We could live like that. Imagine a 10 hour work week and the rest goes to benefitting the arts, or technology, or what ever you want it to? Imagine. The world has the resources, the world has the manpower. The only think lacking is the system. We are living in a failed system. It is crumbling. Our fiat money is just a tool of the capitalistic system, someone making thirty times the money out of someone elses hardearned dollar. 29 imagined dollars to loan for every real dollar and even that is imagined. BOA tranferred many TRILLIONS of dirivatives to it's insured bank sector, the TAXPAYER and nobody said a word. TRILLIONS, got that? Next is Gazillions. All made up. Down the rabbit hole....hello, Alice. This is just a transfer of our labour and production to a non-labour, non-production upper class. Upper, because they have figured out how to steal our labour. How does that feel? Imagine number 1, then imagine 1000 then imagine 1000000000 then imagine 1000000000000. Yeah, we are talking about people that live so far above the common man that there is no imagining it. Imagine being able to literally buy a country. And they have, they have bought ours. Tell me one thing that is produced by business for profit that couldn't be produced by humans for the common good and at a lesser cost. We could have a society that produces for all without profit. I think that would produce a vastly different state of mind. So called job killing social programs are the only thing going for quite a lot of people right now. What else would you do with them? Kill them? Let them starve? Sleep in the streets? Wait until they riot? All happening now. If this is the society you want to live in, I pity you. We could have a society that favored and promoted employee owned inititives. The real humans could be running things at a benefit to themselves and everyone else. If there is profit to made, then let it go to the labour that made it happen. It works. When you are part owner, it makes a hugh difference. The world is owned by labour but in essence we have just forgotten that we are the owners. We have allowed a bunch of scammers come in and run things. Sociapaths are people that CANNOT empathise or sympathise with the evil that has been committed. Socialpaths are currently running things. We are at a time in our history, if we don't understand and realize the socialpathic rule that has engulfed us, we can all die. All of us. Our planet, our souls demand the the return of our rights and our humanity. We have to recognise that we depend on our planet that is being rapidly depleted by BUSINESS. We could consider that we are all equal owners of the earth. If the earths resources were used to the benefit of all the actual co-owners, there would plenty for us all. Because some people and companies lay claim to OUR inheritance, we ALL suffer, the earth's resources are raped and laid waste, and millions suffer. And Corporations? The wonder of a corporation is that no one is held to account. Just some powerful entity that has the money and time to buy a politician or multiples of the same, so they can cast laws and policies that allow their rape and lawlessness. I am haunted by George Carlin. What a genius or at least an honest entertainer. I wish Jon Stewart would live up to him. There are thousands of incidents that prove business takes away from our daily lives. It is all about their profit, holy profit. One(Huge)for instance the wonder plant, cannabis. Said to have at least 25,000 uses that are denied to us because of BUSINESS, namely chemical, petro, paper, and cloth. This plant could produce all that they do, while at a significantly, even stupendous, benefit to the environment, but we are denied it by their interest. Some of the denied benefits, miraculous medicine, clothing, moisteriser, biodegradible plastic, fuel, food. Imagine 25,000 uses the people are being denied by outdated and business friendly policies. OMG.....wake up everybody.....please.....I feel like I have been in a collective nightmare since 1962! Another example is the practice of FRACKING to extract gas from the earth. There are toxic environmental issues associated with this, including, poisoning of natural water systems, wells, and earthquakes. Yes, responsible for earthquakes. Look it up. There are numerous examples I could cite, of corporate practices that are harmful to earth and to us. If you have Google Earth, look at the mountain top extractment that is ongoing. Our planet is being distroyed by business. Yeah, cheap gas? How much does your water cost you? I need water to live. It nutures me and the plants I need. Oh, gas powers fuel......We can do better. There are thermo technologies that work much better. Safe for the environment and people and unending. Do we really want to poison water for petro companies to make a profit when it is unnecessary? Now to jobs, business create jobs. Well, they haven't been. Instead they are forcing the people they still employ to work harder or shipping their jobs to countries that don't have or don't enforce regulation. What a bonus, no minimum wage, no environmental protection, no taxes, just human slavery. And while human production is up like 80% over a few decades in the US, it is no safeguard. Look at all the automation that has taken place. So while the population grows, automation takes over more human jobs, technology expands, less jobs. Maybe we need to rethink. The profit motive is one of the problems along with the "growth" idea. Endless growth is impossible is a finite universe. Maybe we humans need to learn how to take it easy... I think it's time that people woke up and realized the true value of life, which is not how much money you have, or what you own. It would be amazing to live in a world where everyone had adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical attention. Imagine the quiltless existence of living within our and our planets means. Earth is us and we are earth. Got a new planet to go to? Yeah, I didn't think so... I want to open some narrow viewpoints. I hope I have.

Prospective of a Southern American Woman ……

I have watched with despair the path our nation has taken from the entry of Ronald Reagan. I was too young to understand the importance of events of the Nixon years though I understand now, one of the benefits of aging. One of my earliest memories are watching the president of the United State being slaughtered in public view and the understanding even at that young age, something terrible had occurred.

My understanding as a youth was that the US was something special on the world stage even though my own experiences left me in turmoil and anger. We were the nation where ALL were equal, so the voices said, but there were vast inequalities visible to the naked eye and that defied explanation. The race question was always there, and contrary to what is talked about, as a young white woman, I received a fair amount of attacks from my co-americans. I was hit by a mud clot once, standing on the road side and thrown out of a car full of angry black kids. I understand their anger….they directed it at the wrong person. This is not the only time something like that occurred. Funny, as a woman, I understand their displacement and anger, as I have some of that myself. It is not a happy situation to be more accomplished and intelligent than your superiors, who happen to be white men.

I was raised a Southern Baptist. I always resented and questioned the inequality of woman that is promoted by the church, in their literature and sermons. After all, aren’t women half the human race? I was fortunate in that my father was a man that plainly saw woman as strong and capable. I must say that I saw many womanly qualities as being quite superior to the manly qualities that were promoted and encouraged. My experiences have not changed my opinion and have led me to an agnostic position regards religion that on a whole, I am comfortable with.

I never agreed with Ronald Reagan’s trickle down theory. As one embroiled in the lower tiered economics….I certainly didn’t understand how that would work. Obviously, from current prospective it didn’t. The shock and awe tactics of the first Bush administration against Iraq left me sickened and ashamed of my country and it’s willingness to harm others.

As a person that was trying to live the American dream, I felt like Clinton did understand and had the background to help the lower echelons of society, however being one of those, led me to question policies such as NAFTA. It made sense to me that there is no way that the could compete with economics that paid a worker thirty dollars a month, as I have heard income from VietNam described. I always thought there would be a vast equalization of dollars adversely affecting the US worker.

I was never asked about the 2nd Bush war, but I thought from the beginning that it was wrong, that we had no business being there. The excuse of 9-11 was weak and questionable. I think many of my fellow citizens felt the same way. Again I was sickened by the sheer savagery of the bombing and my sympathies were with the Iraqi people. I wanted to undo the damage that was inflicted on them. I have felt for the past six years or so that the USA was embroiled in militarism and that our country would fall if we continued on this journey. We have continued on the Journey with the support of Israel’s attack on Gaza. I can have no understanding of their mindset. To me, this is as bad or worse than the Nazi’s in Germany. How can anyone excuse the brutal murder and mayhem that results in such attacks?

With the election of Barack Obama, I feel an immense love and hope for my country. It seems that all the lonely years of Bush and Reagonomics are gone and the American people can unite and be what we really all. A loving and tolerant society, that let’s others live and forgives others their idiosyncrasies. Were we every really that? I think we were trying to become that and maybe this is just the birth pains to becoming. The USA should be a nation with just laws, for the people, by the people. Do away with the WAR ON DRUGS that makes so many citizens criminals and cost a fortune. Do away WITH THE WAR ON TERROR, that is indefinable and with no end. Do away with the unlawfulness of corporate control. Make everyone able to secure a job and a living without fear of being stripped of rights and liberties and hopes, dreams. Regulate and monitor those that would do so much damage if they were not.
Study your history, corporations were illegal in the US until the 1880’s and were strictly prohibited by the constitution. The Federal Reserve is not a government post as it poses to be. It is a private banking enterprise that rapes the US Citizen. The American people deserve a fair and just government that serves its individuals, not its corporate slaveholders. Perhaps, with this new administration, the American people will receive that. It will be up to us…we must demand and monitor and hold accountable those in office. Do not forget, we have the option of changing that government, written into our constitution and inalienable rights. We must avail ourselves of that right if that is forced upon us. Bless the US as well as everyone else.