The Capatilist Ethic

I am going to try to stand on the fence for this but in the end I will fall in only one direction. There is a recent (maybe not so recent) thrust at corporate America for their intrusion into politics, education, and our personal lives.

See Richard Wolff's rant “ Can We Afford Capitalism?” Or an even more blatant attack in a blog I've seen by the same name . Despite Mitt Romney's assertion to the contrary Corporations are not people and they have but one goal...to make money. The rules of Corporate Capitalism are something akin to Issac Asimov's rules for robots.

1. A Corporation may not be unprofitable or, through inaction, allow its profits to decline.

2. A Corporation must work for the benefit of its shareholders except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A Corporation must protect national interest as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

And so these are the laws that corporations live by. Now they have a new weapon to keep their interests protected through more political lobbies in an organization called ALEC. ALEC is the conservative answer to the ACLU. All hail the mighty dollar, long live a profitable capitalistic society. I feel ya'!

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness … but only on these specific terms:

you must-	you must not-
speak English,	be gay,
want to carry a gun,	come from another country,
wear what every other person in the country wears,	complain about the people who have too much,
live for money,	want a better life,
believe in the christian “God”,
happily pay taxes,
learn only what we want you to learn.

Others stipulations will be added as the Corporations see fit, because, you see, the Corporations have 99% of the money, THAT's THEIR JOB-make and control the money. It is written into the Corporation rules of existence.

So why are we so upset that the Corporations have done EXACTLY what they were designed to do! It's the proven American WAY!

I have a conservative side of me that wants to see a smaller government, spending less and letting the nation grow. But I do not see how, legislating educational agenda, inhibiting personal liberties, fighting foreign integration and demanding a purely christian viewpoint achieves that end. The battles being fought in the political arena are light years from being cost effective and government reducing. What difference does it make if people of the same sex get married to the economy or jobs market? How can requiring teachers to teach that evolution and global warming are “unproven” theories make them more competitive in the global economy. What ever happened to “....land of the free and home of the brave”? Have we become so afraid of our original constitutional rights that we must pigeon hole them in to a list of dos and don'ts?