Provide for the
common defense of corporations
When Marine Major General Smedley Butler retired from active
duty he decided to write a book and toured the country promoting it. This
popular book's name was War is a Racket. In it, he describes in detail how he
had spent over thirty years in the military at the service of corporate
America. He wrote about his military incursions into other countries to protect
American companies there.
This procedure continued long after his service had come to
an end. For instance, in 1954 the US government had no qualms paying terrorists
from Honduras to invade Guatemala and overthrow the democratically elected
president, Jacobo à rbenz Guzmà n, because the American business United Fruit
Company complained that his government was going to confiscate some unused land
owned by them.
Domestically, the police are called upon with ever
increasing frequency to quell any and all protests against the status quo. The
Occupy Wall Street movement has highlighted just how common it is for the
police to use pepper spray and other heavy-handed tactics to crush any populist
movement that goes against the views and opinions of Wall Street and the
elitists who control this country.
Promote corporate
welfare
We have seen recent events in the finance industry where the
US government has given trillions of taxpayer dollars to the largest banks and
financial institutions who had severely mismanaged their companies. These
corporations have continued to shower their senior executives with billions of
dollars in bonuses and pay increases while hording the rest of the money, even
though these funds were to be used to stimulate the economy through loans and
investments. Very little of their taxpayer handouts will actually go to
creating new jobs for those out of work in today's economy.
We see an ever increasing revolving door of corporate
officers being placed in high level unelected political offices where they directly
affect government policy and then return to their private companies after a few
years. In this way, the FDA, FCC, US Treasury Department and other government
agencies that are responsible for establishing and maintaining US policy,
ensure the protection of these major companies and lavish them with no-bid
contracts worth hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer's money.
Economists from Northeastern University have recently
released a study on the recession which found that between mid 2009 and the end
of 2010, income in the U.S. increased by $528 billion. $464 billion went to
pretax corporate profit while only $7 billion went to workers' salaries. Thus
corporates received 88% of the growth and salaries accounted for only slightly
more than 1% of the growth in real national income. In fact, when inflation is
added to the equation real wages actually declined.
Secure the blessings
of liberty to the rich and their posterity,
As we can plainly see, the America of today has little
resemblance with the America that our forefathers originally intended.
Productivity is up across America, many giant corporations are making huge
profits, others have received enormous handouts from the American taxpayer, yet
the average American today lives in a much more limited world of shrinking
possibilities and less help. Prosperity for all, once one of the cornerstones
of the American dream, has become prosperity for the rich. There are two
Americas quickly emerging from this abyss; the rich America which is full of
great hospital care, fancy cars and wonderful homes and vacations, and the
not-so-rich America, full of empty promises, little health care, inner city and
suburban ghettos, and an ever increasing mountain of debt for the bailouts that
we've already given to the wealthy.
Our politicians will do whatever it is the rich demand they
do, because the rich will elect them from now on. Those who dare speak out will
get their fill of pepper spray and no-fly lists as well as other social
restrictions to punish them for their insolence. Education is already too much of a burden for
many and the road out of poverty is becoming smaller and smaller. I'm sure the
elite will find endless wars for those who choose the military route out of the
poor house. The rest will just have to be content with ever diminishing wages,
higher prices, and fewer services like health care, libraries, general
education for their children and other community services.
Do ordain and
establish this Constitution for the rich of the United States of America.
Hail to the new leaders, the elite who command our every
move, select our officials and determine which rat hole will be our destiny. If
we're lucky, maybe a crumb will eventually fall nearby.
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