The Curse of Capitalism

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The Curse of Capitalism
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By Alan Adaschik

Government is government and business is business and the two are very different from each other. A business exists solely to earn profits for its owners. On the other hand, a prime function of government is to keep the playing field level between citizens so that no one person or groups of people can take unfair advantage of others. This being the case, it should be clear that the goals of government and corporations are at cross purposes with each other. A business earns profits by exploiting its environment and seeking advantage in the market place. In contrast, governments exist to ensure that a business does not wrongfully exploit the environment, take unfair advantage of their competitors or customers, and operates in a manner that is beneficial and positive for all concerned.

It should be obvious that a business will maximize profits if it is able to control the environment within which it operates. Unfortunately, it is also obvious that the best ways of doing this is to influence and control the government which is supposed to be controlling it. And there's the rub. When a corporation is able to control its government, corruption is the order of the day and instead of properly performing one of its prime functions, the government in question, instead, aids and abets the corporation so it can wrongfully have its way with us. So it is in the United States today. Corporations have such a lock upon our government and the other institutions of our society that they are free to plunder us and our national resources at will. The situation has progressed to the point where capitalism, the goose that laid the golden egg for the people of this nation, has now become a curse upon us. Capitalists are now our masters instead of being our servants and without any controls upon them they are self-serving masters at best.

Validation of the foregoing is clearly evident all around us. These include a revolving door between corporations and their controlling governmental agencies, a Medicare Prescription Drug Program that benefits drug companies more that it does program participants, a government which is hostile to environmental concerns and global warming issues, multi-billion dollar corporate contracts awarded on a no bid basis without any semblance of control or accountability, a government which totally ignores over-population issues, a monetary system primarily beneficial to its owners that is bankrupting our Nation, a government that is flooding the nation with immigrants and only pays lip service to the issue of illegal immigration, a government that is dissolving our borders and which places trade issues before and above our sovereignty, energy policies that favor and enrich energy companies, a flagrant de-regulation of corporations in all sectors of our economy, the wonton and unbridled privitation of traditional governmental functions including those of our armed forces, and the creation of a New World Order where corporations rule and hold ultimate authority over our government and economic well being.

As a people, this is where we are today and this did not happen to us by accident. We lost control of our lives and government in 1913 with passage of the Federal Reserve Act which created the Federal Reserve Bank, a privately owned corporation which was wrongfully given the power to earn profits by loaning us our own money at interest. Because of this, Americans were forced to pay an income tax on the fruits of their labor which helped make the robber baron bankers rich beyond their wildest dreams. This wrongfully acquired wealth gave rise to the New World Order and its stepchild, the World Trade Organization (WTO). Incredibly, this criminal organization, by way of a simple unconstitutional legislative act, was given authority over and the power to overrule, our Congress, President, and our Supreme Court.

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1. 100 years later 'We the People' have let our economy, country, families, standard of living.....

and national security be put in jeopardy, so very few can have it ALL. 'We the People' are the ONLY FORCE that can stop the insanity.