Paul
I liked your citation of product dumping and the link. That might be good to use for our corporation "structures" that give rise to poverty/rich desparity in our country - based on our treatment of the poor in other countries from our corporations. I also liked your continued look at "empowerment" of the practices rather than a fighting or demolishing of the practices. I agree that other nations need to be empowered. Since "welfare" doesn't seem to "work" or give dignity to people it gives handouts to. It may be good for me to look at issues such as voting for fair wadges, etc. when I look at the response part of our blog.
Corporation monopolies and seeming unethical practices were visualized for us two weeks ago. A row of well, dressed white, old male CEO's of oil corporations in front of a senate hearing committee. They don't have to "swear in" ... why? Baseball players had to swear in. Condy Rice had to swear in. No, the republican senator from Alaska did not allow them to be sworn in and dismissed any discussion of it. Good for the CEO's because it already seems that they lied in some of their answers. They are continuing to show record profits while all of our bills go up. Rich and poor. Our gas prices are higher and our heating bills are more. If you live on minimum wage and barely make-it month to month... an increase in a heating bill could be devastating. Do the CEO's care? Should they care? Some senators (both democrats and republicans) think the CEO's do a price tampering sort of thing and line their already rich pockets with the cash. But should we punish profit making industries? Since oil is something we cannot help but consume (unless we live in a commune in the mountains, but probably even then there is some gas being used). I wonder what is best in this kind of scenario.
This is such interesting stuff, though!
I liked your citation of product dumping and the link. That might be good to use for our corporation "structures" that give rise to poverty/rich desparity in our country - based on our treatment of the poor in other countries from our corporations. I also liked your continued look at "empowerment" of the practices rather than a fighting or demolishing of the practices. I agree that other nations need to be empowered. Since "welfare" doesn't seem to "work" or give dignity to people it gives handouts to. It may be good for me to look at issues such as voting for fair wadges, etc. when I look at the response part of our blog.
Corporation monopolies and seeming unethical practices were visualized for us two weeks ago. A row of well, dressed white, old male CEO's of oil corporations in front of a senate hearing committee. They don't have to "swear in" ... why? Baseball players had to swear in. Condy Rice had to swear in. No, the republican senator from Alaska did not allow them to be sworn in and dismissed any discussion of it. Good for the CEO's because it already seems that they lied in some of their answers. They are continuing to show record profits while all of our bills go up. Rich and poor. Our gas prices are higher and our heating bills are more. If you live on minimum wage and barely make-it month to month... an increase in a heating bill could be devastating. Do the CEO's care? Should they care? Some senators (both democrats and republicans) think the CEO's do a price tampering sort of thing and line their already rich pockets with the cash. But should we punish profit making industries? Since oil is something we cannot help but consume (unless we live in a commune in the mountains, but probably even then there is some gas being used). I wonder what is best in this kind of scenario.
This is such interesting stuff, though!
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