Hi Rick. Peculiar ideas are flowing thick and fast. Why on Earth should a corporation, or anybody, be "committed" to the "American middle class"?
My idea of corporations is that they should be committed to their shareholders, not some bunch of thieving voters, even if they are middle class.
I have an idea called freedom. It's increasingly unknown these days and an idea that few can get their heads around, though it's used a lot. In times gone by, even as long ago as pre-biblical times, there was an idea called free will, wherein people are considered to have operant brains which enable them to think and be self-determining rather than mindless tribal slaves under the yoke of some overlord.
In recent centuries, a "collective" overlord political system has developed in which individuals are subsumed into a mindless collective, ruled still by overlords to whom they owe allegiance, the winners being the ones not discarded [sometimes called the most popular which is stretching a point] in a vote. For all the political pontificating, it's still serfdom at best if not slavery.
TJ has been explaining that the American middle class is the author of its own destruction. He and I prefer to disagree, but in this instance he is surprisingly correct. Those at the bottom of the heap and top of the heap have a hand in any difficulties too. Blaming corporations, and China, who supply them with amazing things which they couldn't dream of creating themselves is absurd - they would be lucky to even stay alive if they depended on themselves.
There is much cant about freedom, but in fact, regulations roam from sea to shining sea and a their tentacles reach around the world. Taxes are at never-before in human history levels while "defence" spending is more than all other countries combined [or thereabouts].
Despite that vast spending, 20 blokes armed only with box-cutter knives were able to penetrate the space spy satellites, the nuclear umbrella, the lurking submarines, the vast armadas of nuclear-powered air craft carriers with swarms of aerial defenders and bring down the Twin Towers of capitalism and "freedom" and destroy a good chunk of the citadel of American middle class defence, The Pentagon. They came close to getting something more too, such as the White House or Congress.
It seems defences are not up to scratch. To improve defence, people trying to fly in aircraft are hassled in absurd ways at huge cost and armed men fly in aircraft. Which is of course ridiculous and more likely to cause death than to prevent it. In fact, it already has done. Some panicky psycho was shot and killed by a "security" man for trying to escape from an aircraft on the ground.
So not only did the "security" man fail to keep people safe, he actually killed one, as well as causing a big delay in the aircraft and no doubt to a LOT of other people as mass hysteria would have broken out at the airport and caused its closure.
Meanwhile, the next attacks are being planned on the "American middle class" and they won't be in the stable from which the horse has already bolted. Shutting the cockpit door after the horse has bolted through and hijacked the aircraft doesn't help much.
Sarin gas in crowded undergrounds has already been trialled. Imagine polonium 210 sprayed around the place. That would stampede the crowds. Heck, "white powder" gets people panicking. Some flashing electrical-looking light thingies shut down cities not long ago.
Corporations should be committed to their customers and their shareholders, not the American Middle Class. There are enough of them to look after themselves, if they didn't go on voting for and doing dopey things.
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