Be careful now. You know that old word “welfare” has gotten a bad rap because somehow our government thought they could create the great society by giving free money away. Duh! Of course it is a failure. It had a negative effect for the same reason that capitalism works. People have to be motivated to feed, clothe, and house themselves. If we just take care of the basic needs that we as a society owe each other, I believe everybody except for the truly disabled will be able to excel. Somehow we have let our society’s moral and political obligation to insure the basic needs of society become stigmatized as if it were a handicap on society. This is pure fallacy. Not taking care of the basic human needs is how the social elites enslave the general populace into subservience. We would all be so much more productive and prosperous if we just took care of the basics.
Many of you whose programmed, knee jerk, auto response system has you going into the socialism = communism = dictatorial society reaction are doing exactly what the leaders of the corporate government complex want. Not opening your minds to what an incredibly beautiful life we could have if we wanted it strongly enough, because guess what? Yep you guessed it; they want to keep it all for themselves. I believe that a more perfect union will include a blend of political systems. Capitalism will work where it works best as a great motivator for people to want to do great things, and socialism will be used where it works best as the insuring infrastructure enabling all people to do great things. So where do we start.
Establish justice.
Our country has just suffered some of the worst crimes in all of history. Millions of people’s lively hoods and savings were stolen or swindled from them by corporate executives. Our government has basically given them the OK to do so because the perpetrators knew their risks were slim and certainly they would never risk what a robber would if he pulls off a heist of a Wells Fargo truck for let's say, eighty million dollars.
So what do they do about it? They try to hang it on Martha Stewart.
What a bunch of bull market chips. If she goes to jail then most of our elected officials belong there with her, including George Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton and most of our Congress. They create and perpetuate the environment that caused Martha to think her behavior was, well shall we say, socially acceptable. These people and their corporate enclave stole billions of dollars from much of the populace through deception lies and fraud. If a robber who steals your wallet gets five to ten then these executive criminals should do the rest of their lives at hard labor with all the miseries and abuses that the common criminal gets in prison.
How do they get away with it? Corporate law, civil law and criminal law are so riddled with loopholes, shelters and ambiguities that it makes no sense to any one except corporate lawyers. I believe they just pretend to understand the mess they and our lawmakers have created.
How do you fix it?
1. Executive boards should be held criminally as well as civilly responsible for the irresponsible conduct of their companies. The penalties should be equivalent to what other criminals of lesser social status would get.
2. The process by which laws are written should be changed so that a board of constituent citizens agrees that the laws are in fact understandable and enforceable. Remember many lawyers are trained to manipulate facts and it is their job to bend the truth beyond a reasonable doubt. Make law so simple that a tenth grade educated person can understand it. Come on, how hard could it be to compose a law that states, “Any member of a board of directors must give three days notice in the public media before they can sell their own company stock”? If the stock looses its value it is most likely the boards fault any way. Get rid of the legalese in laws. Do not allow words or concepts to be written into law that are not easily understood by an average person. If you have read many of the laws and statutes of this land you would have to agree they are way too complex and abstract. Legal concepts do not have to be this complicated. If you let lawyers make laws all you are doing is making sure that laws are so complicated that you have to have lawyers to settle your legal problems. And like it or not, we all have legal problems.
3. We could get rid of so much of this corporate deception and greed by converting our tax code to a graduated flat tax system, also a small 3% federal sales tax. Our tax codes are so corrupt and unbalanced they are shameful.
4. We could get rid of much more corruption by cleaning up the legislative process. It is as crooked as a snake. A law should be a law simply stated and not a bill laced with pork and encumbrances that may involve every legislator’s interest.
5. Lobbying should consist of no more than a letter of public record. Political platforms should be freely circulated and readily available.
6. Political advertising should be banned. It is deceptive by design. All too often it is nothing but smear campaigns paid for with corporate dollars that promote ignorance instead of intelligence.
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