Just A Few Questions For Americans

[Psychoblues]

I just listened to an excellent program on C-Span2. Here's a few questions that I thought of while listening.

1. What do you like about your community?
2. What do you want to change in 20 years?
3. Is your personal trauma societal or governmental?
4. What is your opinion about the laws of 1886 giving Corporations "personal" status?
5. Is what is good for General Motors good for America or is what is good for America good for General Motors?
6. As the quality of life for corporations increases does your quality of life increase or is the opposite true?
7. Should the separation of church and state be expanded to include a strict separation of corporation and state?

I would appreciate an involved and comprehensive discussion on these questions.

In any event, can I offer anyone a nugget of enjoyment and mind expansion?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

[PostmodernProphet]

in essence I take it you are asking if our current situation of "mega-corporation" is good for us.......I would say no.....I think a lot of our economic problems stem from the beginning of corporate mergers back in the 70s and 80s.....instead of having a hundred corporations producing a hundred products we have five corporations producing a hundred products under a hundred corporate shells owned by the same company.....locally we have seen two negative impacts of this trend.....

in one instance a factory that employed over two hundred people making coat hangers (of all obsure things) was purchased by a larger company.....now this business was profitable and money that was earned on sales from all over the world ended up in the local economy......but they were purchased by a competitor and for only one purpose....within two years the plant was closed and the employees were fired and there was one less competitor in the business......year after year this same pattern was happening everywhere across the country.....

in the other situation we had a company in town that produced auto parts.....it had been started in the 60s by a guy in his garage and had grown until it employed nearly 5000 people.....if you ever bought a GM vehicle the dashboard and the entire ceiling of your car was made here in town, most of it by robots that this guy invented and the 5000 people that ran them.....this guy was a genius when it came to plastic injection....and the guy was a local philanthropist......schools, colleges, downtown renovations, an airport, hospitals, you name it......then he dropped with a heart attack and his family sold the business to a multi-national for $3.5bil....the widow gave over $1bil in bonuses to the employees depending on seniority....I have a client who had been a foreman on the floor who got over $400k.....ten years later, they have fewer than a thousand employees left in town...."ah, we're shifting that operation to our plant in Georgia.....this one to Mexico, that one to California"......

if mergers had never been allowed, we would have had some of those companies go broke, but chances are some of the employees would have have started new companies to fill in the voids.....mergers allow big corporations to plug the voids and discourage new competitors.....

and gradually you end up with a situation where a dozen or fewer companies control an entire industry....

less competition means less innovation....

{oh, by the way, that local business genius who died of a heart attack had a youngest son, black sheep of the family, that you have probably heard of....runs a little company in North Carolina called Blackwater....they're into security}

[Psychoblues]

Actually, pmp, I am really not that concerned with the "mega-corporation" as you call it. I am much more concerned with how everyday neighborhood Americans feel about their lives in general and how they feel about commercial interferences impact them.

As a businessman I have always associated myself with other businesses including many of my direct competitors in comprehensive analyses and planning and even suggestions on the retail levels. I believe that I was always fair to my employees and my customers and to my government. I believe that the failures of my business were related more to things within my control and capitalization capacities. But, I have always been pretty much pro-business in the well respected fashion of present day DLC Democrats.

I really do wish for a comprehensive discussion of the points and questions that I ask in the OP as I am interested in possibly re-entering the political field and hopefully being of some significant good to the society at large.

I'm getting a bit older and not as healthy as I once was but I still have some fight left in me and I want to use what I have left of this life to better, even more than I have done already, the lives of people around me and my family.

It is a genuine concern with genuine aspirations, pmp. And I greatly appreciate all that you've said in your post and I hope that we can discuss more of what gives us heartburn and what we might be able to accomplish in relieving it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you dig it?!?!??????!?!

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

[Silver]

I just listened to an excellent program on C-Span2. Here's a few questions that I thought of while listening.

1. What do you like about your community?
Almost everything
2. What do you want to change in 20 years?
The liberal, Communistic, Socialistic, trend of the Country
3. Is your personal trauma societal or governmental?
I have NO personal trauma
4. What is your opinion about the laws of 1886 giving Corporations "personal" status?
Mis-guided, to say the least
5. Is what is good for General Motors good for America or is what is good for America good for General Motors?
Yes and Yes..
6. As the quality of life for corporations increases does your quality of life increase or is the opposite true?
For the UAW, but not for the rest of us in general
7. Should the separation of church and state be expanded to include a strict separation of corporation and state?
The separation of Church and State is a myth...a hoax on the people....simple words, misinterpreted, and twisted by activists....
Simple words that meant to prohibit the government from imposing religious beliefs on the citizens through taxation or any other form of intimidation...



I would appreciate an involved and comprehensive discussion on these questions.

In any event, can I offer anyone a nugget of enjoyment and mind expansion?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychobluess

[Psychoblues]

Well, considering that you already live in your own form of Utopia but can't stand it anyway, slither, I would suggest that it is not you from whom I would expect a credible discussion.


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Have another toke and kiss this: :pee:

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

[PostmodernProphet]

I really do wish for a comprehensive discussion of the points and questions that I ask in the OP as I am interested in possibly re-entering the political field and hopefully being of some significant good to the society at large.



If you really want to accomplish something significantly good for society at large stay out of politics....the last thing society needs is another person who thinks that what the Democrats do is "pro-business" in any fashion.....

[Psychoblues]

My "pro-business" attitude has done far more than any of your stifle the people bullshit, pmp.



If you really want to accomplish something significantly good for society at large stay out of politics....the last thing society needs is another person who thinks that what the Democrats do is "pro-business" in any fashion.....

I thought you were more honest than that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe your honesty is more self pity and defeating than I ever imagined!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues