Sword Point Saturday - Who's at the Helm?
The country is headed for an economic dead end. Even knowing the teeny bit about national economics that I know, I think I could have done a better job of keeping things going.
What this leads me to believe is that what's happening is not an accident. There is a reason why we are being steered toward a depression while being told that there's going to be a bit of slow-down in the economy for a few months.
We all know that King George isn't smart enough to tie his own shoes, let alone run a country. He's obviously part of the whole disaster and probably being paid very well. How much is a legacy worth? I don't know if you could pay me enough money to be the worst president ever.
Anyway, this leads to my question for today?
Who's driving this wreck?
5 Sword Points.
I hate to sound like a wacko conspiracy theorist, but I think there are companies that are now too large to be contained within any nation and they are calling the shots. When an environmental policy needs to be written, Exxon and General Electric send teams of lawyers to Washington to "help" Congress write the laws. When business becomes difficult to do in an unfriendly country, the U.S. military invades. When spying on citizens is revealed, laws are enacted to give the spies immunity - provided the spies are corporations.
Given an economic collapse in this country, those companies will keep chugging along since they can organize, reorganize and move in the time it takes to type a few keystrokes. They're mobile and borderless and if Americans are bankrupt and poor, that's okay because workers and consumers can be found elsewhere. Loyalty isn't an attribute valued in an entity that must, by charter and purpose, be sociopathic in action.
That's what I think anyway.
Posted by: CV Rick | April 19, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Can I just use Rick's answer,too? ;)
Posted by: Cherise | April 20, 2008 at 08:20 AM
wow, I just think the people in power are just that inept/greedy, I don't see a grand conspiriacy, just idiots we've been dumb enough to elect. So I think it's them.
Posted by: mark | April 21, 2008 at 06:34 AM
Ricky T, it seems like the US government has become a department in the corporations.
Cherise, no. You have to put it in your own words.
Mark, we're not going to be able to change who is elected until we get people to turn off their TVs. I don't think people are dumb. They just don't place a high priority on politics anymore. They've been conditioned to believe that it doesn't matter who gets elected, nothing will change.
5 Sword Points for Rick and Mark.
Btw, Ricky T. won again and the scores have been reset.
Posted by: Success Warrior | April 21, 2008 at 07:16 AM