Corporations are rogue beasts -- wild in growth, fueled by fiat money and no accountability except loyalty, fealty and a cut to the great Federal and Money-center "upstreams".
At the beginning we chartered them, and kept a unilateral sovereign's right to change or revoke that charter. It was once -- at the start -- that individuals were sovereign and the government was chartered (a non-revocable charter that, I hold too) and governments acting as agents of The People would issue charters containing restrictions and demanding fealty and preservations of interests of the People upon whose behalf such charters were issued.
Such interests include primary and dominant regard for mainataining National resources in manufacturing, engineering and technology -- not to mention jobs. Simple rule -- why should I allow you the use of my car or of my house if you shall be me no rent nor abide any rules nor cut me into the good profits -- not to mention not ruining my property and my own wherewithal? Yet that is what corporations do -- and know they claim the sovereignity of individuals and then some. They are Super-Individuals enjoying immuninties and priviledges no individual may claim.
No greater nor grotesquely porcine, and swarmily unctuous welfare mama is there than the great corporations!
That is rogue. Bad mojo. Rebellion, Trespass, Extortion and Theft.
Like dinosaurs they are all dead, and so big yet the death notice is long to travel to all parts of the leviathans. Should they not fall over on us, nor in their remaining mortal and morbid grotesque dances chance to step on any of us.
That is almost all I ask -- almost -- except that I too want my fair cuts of their flesh -- for we must eat and feast enjoyably on their dead corpses.
" Corporations are rogue beasts -- wild in growth, fueled by fiat money and no accountability except loyalty, fealty and a cut to the great Federal and Money-center "upstreams". "
Just remember, every dollar the federal gov't spends has to be made by the blood sweat, and tears of an individual, a small business owner, and corporations great and small.
It's hard to grasp, but one way is to go into a federal agency - pick commerce, or education - and look around at all the people - with no sense of urgency or purpose beyond watching the clock. Those that work hard, do so with futility, because very little that benefits the country actually goes on. Yet every federal employee must be paid.....and they get paid out of the toil of the taxpayer. It boggles the mind to see the lack of reverence for the taxpayers dollar. It is simply obscene.
It is the gov't, the political class that populates it that really needs fixing. They simply take and spend too much money.
While there are corporations and individuals that get rich off of gov't contracts - I view them as extensions of gov't - it is the vast number of small business that are the real engine of the economy.
No, I do not think returning to the days of gov't chartered business is a good idea. Let companies compete within a fair system. That they are offshoring just shows how bad an environment it is here in the US to have assets and employees. Companies do what companies do. Don't blame them for offshoring - they are only doing what they must to make a profit.