January 30, 2008


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY



THE DISASTER OF CORPORATE RULE


Jesse Unruh once called money "the mother's milk of politics." We're seeing the hideous results of big money and its influence in our political system. Corporations have touted "free trade." Corporations have waged war against unions and the working class. Corporations have dragged their feet on global climate change. The war in Iraq is more about protecting corporate oil interests than it ever was about a "global war on terror." This article by Peter G. Cohen is at www.smirkingchimp.com:


In talking about the current recession and the Washington fix, economists are avoiding the subject of corporate responsibility. The reason that so many people are unable to pay their mortgages is that they are not making enough money and have no savings for an economic slowdown.


The government is limited in its ability to save the economy because an irresponsible Republican majority has supported 'endless' war for American corporate domination, which has been paid for by extensive borrowing. We are in danger of having to pay penalty rates on the debt or losing our national credit cards.


Henry Ford decided to pay $5 a day when most businesses were paying $2. His reason was that he wanted his workers to be able to afford to buy the cars they were making. Many of today's corporations have forgotten that lesson. They have made war on American workers by outsourcing the work to poor foreign peoples eager to work for less. The result is that we have greatly weakened the American consumer, who in turn relies upon credit - whether they can afford it or not.