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Ten Disgusting Things about Corporations
Fast fact sheet about how corporations ruin our lives
TEN DISGUSTING THINGS ABOUT CORPORATIONS
(excerpted from the new book The Corporate Cult by Rich Zubaty)
1) CORPORATIONS ARE LEGALLY REGARDED AS PERSONS: they have all the privileges and none of the responsibilities of being people. They do not eat, sleep, die, feel anything, pay a fair share of taxes or get drafted in time of war.
2) CORPORATIONS COMMIT CRIMES BUT ARE NOT PROSECUTED AS CRIMINALS: according to the law, corporations do not possess a mens rea, a mental state, and therefore do not possess the intent to commit crime. Therefore they cannot be prosecuted as criminals. So, according to the law, corporations are "persons" devoid of a mental state. In other words, certified idiots. And instead of protecting society from them by institutionalizing them -- as we do with most sociopaths -- we let them own property, hire workers, and shout at us from TV.
3) CORPORATIONS ARE ON WELFARE: Corporate Welfare costs U.S. taxpayers $400 billion every single year. Welfare for human people costs $40 billion.
4) CORPORATIONS COST THE U.S. ECONOMY MORE EVERY YEAR THAN THEY CONTRIBUTE TO IT: Corporations claim profits of $2.4 trillion per year but they cost us $2.6 trillion per year in waste, subsidies and pollution. The mom and pop economy subsidizes the corporate economy. The Stock Market would disappear overnight -- there would be no "profit" -- if corporations were required to pay their true costs of production: pollution, health care, education, infrastructure, taxes.
5) THERE WERE NO GIANT AMERICAN CORPORATIONS 150 YEARS AGO: Now they dominate our nation and have overrun the globe.
6) TEN LARGE CORPORATIONS CONTROL 90% OF AMERICAN MEDIA: TV, radio, publishing. How can we claim we have free speech, if we can't get to the mike to claim it.
7) A TYPICAL AMERICAN CHILD SEES 350,000 COMMERCIALS BY AGE 18
8) CORPORATE SOVEREIGNTY LIMITS THE CHOICES OF THE MARKET PLACE: We do not enjoy "Free Trade" or live in a "Free Market". We toil under Corporatism not Capitalism. Corporations squash competition -- not encourage it -- as the capitalist market would require. Corporations seek government handouts with one hand while they bribe politicians for lower taxes with the other. Corporate Socialism. An unholy alliance between business and government. When we allow giant corporations to refuse to pay their full costs of production we are legalizing the theft of our resources. Worse, we're not even being given a choice in the matter. New thinking, new ideas, new products cannot make it onto the retailers' shelves unless they are put there by corporations. Family farms and family businesses have gone the way of the buffalo. We've been brainwashed to think that if corporations don't market it, it must not be good. That's bad thinking.
9) CORPORATIONS HAVE NO SOUL: They are unable to "feel" anything. They have no conscience. They are incapable of connecting thoughts with actions. They are shoving Socialist-style, planned economies down our throats and calling it "Free Trade". They overwhelm media with the Religion of Profit and call it "Free Speech". They buy and sell our politicians and call it "Democracy". We do not live in a democracy with free speech and free trade. We live under Corporatism. Corporate Socialism. We live in a Corporate Cult.
10) CORPORATIONS ARE CULTS: They are secretive organizations dedicated to making money and gaining political power at any cost. They conceal their holdings and their operating procedures from public scrutiny. They brainwash their employees and their customers to gain compliance. They control our behavior, thoughts, information and emotions.
BEWARE THE CORPORATE CULT
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(excerpted from the new book The Corporate Cult by Rich Zubaty)
1) CORPORATIONS ARE LEGALLY REGARDED AS PERSONS: they have all the privileges and none of the responsibilities of being people. They do not eat, sleep, die, feel anything, pay a fair share of taxes or get drafted in time of war.
2) CORPORATIONS COMMIT CRIMES BUT ARE NOT PROSECUTED AS CRIMINALS: according to the law, corporations do not possess a mens rea, a mental state, and therefore do not possess the intent to commit crime. Therefore they cannot be prosecuted as criminals. So, according to the law, corporations are "persons" devoid of a mental state. In other words, certified idiots. And instead of protecting society from them by institutionalizing them -- as we do with most sociopaths -- we let them own property, hire workers, and shout at us from TV.
3) CORPORATIONS ARE ON WELFARE: Corporate Welfare costs U.S. taxpayers $400 billion every single year. Welfare for human people costs $40 billion.
4) CORPORATIONS COST THE U.S. ECONOMY MORE EVERY YEAR THAN THEY CONTRIBUTE TO IT: Corporations claim profits of $2.4 trillion per year but they cost us $2.6 trillion per year in waste, subsidies and pollution. The mom and pop economy subsidizes the corporate economy. The Stock Market would disappear overnight -- there would be no "profit" -- if corporations were required to pay their true costs of production: pollution, health care, education, infrastructure, taxes.
5) THERE WERE NO GIANT AMERICAN CORPORATIONS 150 YEARS AGO: Now they dominate our nation and have overrun the globe.
6) TEN LARGE CORPORATIONS CONTROL 90% OF AMERICAN MEDIA: TV, radio, publishing. How can we claim we have free speech, if we can't get to the mike to claim it.
7) A TYPICAL AMERICAN CHILD SEES 350,000 COMMERCIALS BY AGE 18
8) CORPORATE SOVEREIGNTY LIMITS THE CHOICES OF THE MARKET PLACE: We do not enjoy "Free Trade" or live in a "Free Market". We toil under Corporatism not Capitalism. Corporations squash competition -- not encourage it -- as the capitalist market would require. Corporations seek government handouts with one hand while they bribe politicians for lower taxes with the other. Corporate Socialism. An unholy alliance between business and government. When we allow giant corporations to refuse to pay their full costs of production we are legalizing the theft of our resources. Worse, we're not even being given a choice in the matter. New thinking, new ideas, new products cannot make it onto the retailers' shelves unless they are put there by corporations. Family farms and family businesses have gone the way of the buffalo. We've been brainwashed to think that if corporations don't market it, it must not be good. That's bad thinking.
9) CORPORATIONS HAVE NO SOUL: They are unable to "feel" anything. They have no conscience. They are incapable of connecting thoughts with actions. They are shoving Socialist-style, planned economies down our throats and calling it "Free Trade". They overwhelm media with the Religion of Profit and call it "Free Speech". They buy and sell our politicians and call it "Democracy". We do not live in a democracy with free speech and free trade. We live under Corporatism. Corporate Socialism. We live in a Corporate Cult.
10) CORPORATIONS ARE CULTS: They are secretive organizations dedicated to making money and gaining political power at any cost. They conceal their holdings and their operating procedures from public scrutiny. They brainwash their employees and their customers to gain compliance. They control our behavior, thoughts, information and emotions.
BEWARE THE CORPORATE CULT
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/5225/
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...This is all essentially correct. I would love to know where you got the corporate welfare figure. I have been looking for this for quite some time.
...This is all essentially correct. I would love to know where you got the corporate welfare figure. I have been looking for this for quite some time.
...This is all essentially correct. I would love to know where you got the corporate welfare figure. I have been looking for this for quite some time.
a plutocratic corporatist state of some 270 million people, governed by a faltering representative democratic government that is slowly becoming a fascist "for hire" government, in which the government and the powerful business elite have merged and share mutually reinforcing roles in the control of american society.
And we're supposed to be proud of it, why?
-a nation of sheep, owned by pigs and ruled by wolves.-
May I use it?
"What most men want to know is: How come we live in a society that appears to be run by men, but feels like it's run by women? The answer is pretty simple. The men who run modern society -- the politicians, businessmen, educators and priests -- are men who think like women. They are men who espouse and advance female values. Why do they do this? Because women have more purchasing power, more voting power and more cultural power than men. Women control the marketplace, the polling place and the content of our schools, churches and media. The "secret of success" of the modern "successful" man is that he sold his soul to women and female values. Our society is being run by men who think and act like women. That's why we have so many problems. The Patriarchy is, in fact, a Matriarchy. Female values rule."
As for the knee-jerk feminist who won't be seen with me on the barricades believe me, the feeling is mutual. Feminism is no longer a grass root movement of disenfranchised people, it is a powerful institution. Clearly you have not been married or had kids yet. Just wait. Some day you will want to read my other books.
I am a pro-male anti-corporatist. So is Susan Faludi by the way. Her book Stiffed is one of the best men's books ever.
Sorry it took so long to get back. I'll check this more often.
And thanks for your passionate comments.
You have free speech and just exercised it. Because you have the freedom of speech doesn't mean others must listen.
1) The Left perceives that the only alternative to big corporations is big government. Both are unaccountable to the people. Both are bad. There are other alternatives - like making both corporations and government smaller.
2) The Left spurns religion without admitting that two of its greatest leaders, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., were both foremost spiritual leaders, whose moral stands thrust them into political conflict.
3) The Left is hog-tied by abortion. The Left will not support the anti-war activities of a morally consistent priest who is, by assignment, anti-murder - whether before or after birth. Abortion is a social issue, not an economic issue. And once one accepts that government has no business legislating social issues abortion emerges as a political red herring that is destructive to Leftist cohesion.
You said: " 4) CORPORATIONS COST THE U.S. ECONOMY MORE EVERY YEAR THAN THEY CONTRIBUTE TO IT
What a complete and total crock.
Corporations create most all the jobs, almost all the products, the technology, and the forward progress. They are the drivewheel of our economy.
Costco, Apple, Pfizer, Fireman's Insurance, BMW, Sony, etc. Without these folks we're living in the stone age.
What's your alternative? Government? Small cottage industries? That's a laugh.
do you know what market dominance is, bush admirer? that's when there is no room for competition, and the term "free market" rings hollow. get used to that hollow sound. do you know what the term "corporatism" means, bush admirer? i suggest you look it up. keep in mind that when corporations become large enough entities, they are no longer simply economic in power. they also exert incredible political and social power. they are, in a sense, a mini-government. i would suggest, bush admirer, that the typical right wing dialectic that business is on one side and government on the other, is one of the biggest lies in american history. large corporations, and large governments, say they hate each other in public, but in meeting rooms and committee chambers, they are making love like horny bunny rabbits. let me put it this way: they can't live without each other. they need each others power. i would suggest that government and corporate america have merged their powers together, and are mutually reinforcing each other.
if i was a small business man, i'd pay attention real close to the right wing. the "right" claims it's pro business, but it's heart and soul and bread and butter is big bunsiness corporate america, and the continuation of political-corporate dynasties at the helm of american power. that's who they care about. that's who they answer to. the big money players. the republican party uses all those poor retirerees who donate to the republican national committee, and vote republican, to appear legitimate as they continue to make life easier for the wealthy.
the "right" attacks the "left" by claiming the "left" will create a gigantic, lazy, mass of a welfare society, because the "left" wants the government to help people in need. i would suggest the "right" does exactly the same thing. but for the already powerful. it uses the government to help the wealthy and powerful. to eliminate their taxes, and to deregulate their corporations. it's the same damn thing. government is aiding. and sombody is benefitting. it's a question of who. a very, very important question of who.
i thank all the right wingers who in recent days, and with their election success "mandate", are starting to take off their masks, and show themeselves for what they really are. don't hide what you really think, right wingers. we all want to see your true nature.