Corporate To Do List

Corporations are taking over. Not in the sense that there is a revolution and the people support corporations running their lives. But in the sense that the backroom dealings that businessmen are so good at are undermining governments on every level. And face it, if you've ever worked for a corporation you know that people are not valued in the corporate world, if you're not producing then you're no longer wanted or supported. Hence the recent fight over Social Security and the health care reforms. In the corporation mind set these people are not producing, there fore they should be given nothing to support them. Here's what a corporate to do list probably looks like.

1. Break any union or possibility of people forming a union. Crushing one person or a small group of people is much easier than dealing with large numbers.

2. Use the country's military to go in and fight to stabilize any region where our profits are in jeopardy. After all, why should the corporation hire mercenaries when we've already paid big bucks in political contributions for representatives, senators and presidents.

3. Promote legislation to ruin the public school system. Once the school system is bad enough and has to be privatized, the corporation can tell them what they are expected to think. And if we don't teach them certain things like originality, self-confidence and perseverance then we won't have uppity revolutionary thoughts to deal with. Get them when they're young and we won't have any problems with them.

4. Promote privatization of the prison system while lobbying for stiffer prison sentences. Gotta turn a profit on the private prisons that have been built using public funds by filling them with marginal offenders whose upkeep is paid for by public funds.

5. Form an organization that works hand in hand with state legislators to write the laws at a state level for the corporation's benefit. Mark as done - Alec has been in operation and is getting bills passed that directly benefit the corporations that write the bills.

6. Get contracts with the government that reward the corporation for spending money. The more money that we spend, the more contract money will be allotted to the corporation without having to really produce anything. See many examples in the military/industrial complex relationship.

7. Whenever public opinion seems to be turning against us, use the spin doctors of the corporate controlled media to cloud the issue and turn the blame in another direction. People don't like to think, they should listen to us and let us do the thinking for them.

8. Hire any shyster lawyer necessary to find all the tax loopholes possible to reduce our tax debt. How can we report record profits to Wall Street if our profits are being paid out in taxes. The public funds can pay for what the nation needs. And use those same loopholes to protect the outrageous salaries that are paid to the corporate CEOs.

9. Move more jobs overseas to countries where the payscale is less. So what if we throw people out of work that have been with us for 10 - 15 - 20 years. Younger people at lower pay is what the corporation needs. When we wear them out, we'll throw them away too.

10. Better set up more shell corporations to shield the main money from any frivolous lawsuits that may come our way from people whining about the corporation ruining the local economy, ecology or status of living. They can always work for us so long as they're willing to work for the wages we set and buy our products at the company store at the prices we set.

11. Get control of the Internet, free exchange of ideas and information is not in the corporation's best interest. Keep the people ignorant and controlled and then we can have our way with them.

12. Use whatever means necessary to destroy small business. The corporation can't have competitors with the products that we offer. So what if the quality is better, the people should take what we offer them and be grateful they're getting that. Fortunately, the FDA and USDA are already in our pocket so we can use them when we want to shut a small business down.

If you had a thrill of recognition while reading through any of these items on the corporate to do list then you've already suspected what's going on. Don't get scared and run back to the game console or TV to get away from the anxiety of realizing that we are in the midst of a cultural revolution of major proportions.

"If you don't act the danger becomes greater."

~~ Ai Weiwei - Chinese Artist & Political Activist

You have three choices;

* You can do nothing and try to make it in the world that the corporations will create if you let them. That's if you want to be a serf like in Medieval Europe with no choices given to you except work until you die. Or watch some of these Dystopian movies for a coming preview of how the corporations are will to let you live.

* You can fight against it on a radical basis like the many activists that are out there trying to get people's attention of what is happening by outrageous means.

* You can take part in the democratic process. Right now everyone in the United States is exhausted from the political three-ring circus on the debt ceiling and the attendant tax discussion and budget negotiations that have gone on. But government is on-going, you can't just take a deep breath and think 'I'm glad that's over.' The next discussion is already started. Make your voice heard.

So long as you're alive and living in a country you are a part of the political process. How you respond to your position in the process is your own decision.