Today was a day of rest for me. I have been getting things ready to retile the bathroom and extend the tiles into the dressing area. All in all about 73 square feet of flooring. Not a very large job, but at my age and the fact that all the materials have to be lugged up a flight of stairs it can get to you physically. So I took the day off, mostly but since I can’t play WOW right now (huge download patch!) I decided I would yammer at you awhile.
Right now we are in a crisis in this country. The crisis is that the US Supreme Court decided that corporations can essentially buy elections through unlimited donations to parties, individuals and political action groups to promote causes and candidates that will benefit them. While this is not too terrible on the surface, it allows these money machines, whose sole reason for existence is to make more money to influence the politics of the people. I’m sorry, SCOTUS, especially the corporatist among you, you know who you are, but corporations are not people. They are organizations who have only limited responsibilities to society as a whole and who exist to make money for their share holders and owners. So after reversing decades of law and precedence, which several of you said you wouldn’t do in your confirmation hearings, Mr. Roberts, we now have non-person entities with inertia toward self promotion without any need to participate in the society of our country buying influence and putting on pressure on political candidates in order to promote self-interest.
Big Oil? Buy a law that allows you to pollute the Gulf without consequence… it’s cheaper than having to clean things up or prevent them in the first place. Ecoli in the food? – Hey, it’s not my kid that got sick eating the hamburger meat, I’m a corporation I don’t have any children, and even if I did, money and the making of same comes first! New drugs invented? – I need to get it to market as fast as possible before the users start to experience the side effects we covered up. Let’s see who we can buy.
Yeah, we are in trouble and you know, Justice Kennedy, with all your head shaking at the State of the Union Speech, you know that this is happening NOW! Look where the political ads are being aimed at and who is paying for them. Look at the referendums and initiatives and you can see that the minute you sold your soul to big business, big business started it’s campaign to suck the wealth out of this nation once and for all. Is Treason too strong a word for what you have done?
