Business, the Death of America

Because Capitalism is defined as a “private” means of production of a product employing a public labor force, it is unique. What if Capitalism were defined as a public means of production employing a private labor force.? A labor force that is employed by a private company could be considered to be no longer public, because what about it would define it as public? This is the same scenario as living in a city. We naturally believe the streets upon which we drive and the sidewalks upon which we stroll are public. No one stops to think someone paid for these things and is responsible for their upkeep. Cities are more abstract than that. The only way it can be kept clear is to continue to reiterate local politicians and therefore public properties are entities of the people. They are not rulers and they are not fences. They are funded by our tax dollars and no other way. That civil servants become so out-of-touch with this system is because a proper system of checks and balances is not in place. This seems to be what is happening in America. The workforce of government somehow has gotten it in their head that the American people are either too ignorant or too complacent to understand corruption in government. More likely it is that the common man, all ready bogged down with menial tasks, chooses not to take on the foe of government. For this reason business in the United States needs to be redefined so that America’s priorities once again become valid. All of he superfluous tasks that have begun to take so much of our time need to be discarded, and the relevant tasks of an informed and enraged American people should be exercised. This core of existence and philosophy constantly is being undermined by mindless media. This media image is upon what foreign countries base their ill perceptions of America. Down deep most people still believe in America’s freedoms and all she has offered everyone. How could we forget that Statue of Liberty holding her torch high above the ocean welcoming, “Your tired and your poor?” Since 9/11 our perceptions about immigration were forced to change, because foreign immigrants strolled onto our native soil and turned against us. The immigrants that once made up the heart of America became the infidels, much like the American army became the infidels to Osama bin Laden. It must be a similar feeling, and seen with an earnest degree of self control could be considered a fitting punishment. Infidels came to the Middle East with seeming selfish motives and misplaced incumbent natives on their home soil. Was this not Imperialism? Are terrorist attacks against our country’s infrastructure nothing but underhanded acts of retaliatory attempted Imperialism? All Osama bin Laden has ever asked was for the United States to leave the Middle East. With our unwanted presence there, the soul of immigration in the United States has become tainted. While we began to focus our attention on possible terrorist threats through the airlines, Mexicans responded to a weakness in our southern most border. In two ways immigration that has been a core “value” of our country has become an enemy. We are afraid of Moslem looking men in our airports, and we stopped enforcing illegal immigration from Mexico. With these two issues the message of Ms. Liberty has become skewed. Do we no longer welcome the tired and the poor? Do we welcome them only if they do not look Moslem? The answer should be we welcome them only if they have the respect for our system of government (which includes immigration) and if they are able to be trusted with our lives. This is the definition of a country, and we must qualify our nation some way. If politicians were reluctant to make English the official language of America, what is it that will bind us together as a nation? All of these values have become blurry as people scurry in a haze of spin and propaganda. In addition to these two pressing problems, business in America has abandoned the common people. When did this begin? Was it with ENRON? Was this the first public display of private disgrace in America where loyal employees were manipulated and abused for the monetary gain of the few? With the definition of Capitalism I stated earlier, Big Business is the heart of responsibility for the American people. They provide the infrastructure in which Americans are supposed to thrive in a system of Capitalism. If Big Business fails then what is left to support the economy of the United States? Does the government step in and take up the slack? Certainly in our history the federal government has a record of stepping up for the American people. Is that not their responsibility? If we are defined as a Capitalist socio/economic system, then Big Business is THE core provider for the people of America. If the practices of Big Business are not aptly scrutinized and regulated according to our Constitution, then a failure of Capitalism will result. We all ready have been seeing this as the federal and state governments are expected to step in and take up the slack of complacent and irresponsible large businesses. Similarly small businesses have been bullied out of the market leaving a gaping hole in the infrastructure of jobs and philosophy. When corporate monopolies vie for power as they have in the last decade, then fail on a massive level both to produce their products and economic packages for their employees who is left? We have squashed the little guy so hard that nothing remains. When these egotistical bigots become extinct how long will it take for America to re-adjust? Big Business has all ready become extinct in America, because we no longer can rely upon it to serve our human needs. As a result we are floundering like lost fish in a record breaking deflated housing market, being adversely effected by a devalued dollar, and looking at a dry, hot, and barren desert of America. There are no easy answers to the chaos that has been created in America by selfish private motives fueled by images of “Get Rich Quick” schemes. Instead of investing in America’s infrastructure through her people, we have been used and discarded on a journey to the Forbes 400. The fate of our country rests in these people’s hands, and the misadministration of business is the cause. The delusion of grandeur of owning everything could only be fed by drugs, because there is no such rational behavior that exists than can qualify such a desire. Extremism is all ready ensconced in Big Business in America, and it is this which will be our downfall, not the Moslems.