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Make Profits not Ethics |
| Written by C.D.Walker | |
| Thursday, 05 June 2008 | |
Make Profits Not Ethics
Cigarette companies prove my point exactly with their manipulation of medical data, their testimonials before Congress, and the marketing campaigns targeting children. These companies knowingly, willingly, and purposely lied and deceived everyone with false information and half truths. They knew they were selling death to children but they were making so much paper they didn't care. They did it for decades and they still do. Make profits not ethics is the mantra of business today.
A more recent example of such abuse to the public can be seen with the Energy companies. A group of privately held energy companies led by Enron lobbied the Government for deregulation in the 1990's using the same argument the cable and telecommunication companies used. Deregulation was to bring competition to these markets bringing bidding wars thus lowering the prices for the consumer. Instead the competition never came, the bidding wars never happened; it was like these companies had a hidden agenda, almost like they had already carved up the nation for each company to control this part and that part and like La Costa Nostra Families they would not invade into another companies territory.
I submit for my proof the rise in energy costs in every market that was deregulated. Pepco alone had an increase in earnings of almost 100 million dollars between 2006 and 2007 and we know what practices Enron was using at the time of its forced bankruptcy just a few short years ago. Just 2 companies and look at the negative impact Enron had and Pepco has raised energy prices for MD users almost 70% since deregulation. I also submit for proof the rise in prices disproportional to inflation in every service that has been deregulated including Airline, Energy, cable, telecommunications, and now it appears in the sub-prime mortgage mess. Insurance and Oil companies would need another page each just by themselves.
All these problems with corporations can be traced to a couple dozen shareholders who care only about greed and power, like all tyrants. How many corporations must use; and in a lot of cases poison, kill, or endanger the public before government does something? What happened to men like Roosevelt who “ Held the ideal that the government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none.“? That’s right, politicians send their kids to the same private schools that executives send there kids to creating an elite among us with money just like the Feudal system did with royal blood. What does that tell you about public education and the incorporation of public schools? I do not see increased sales tax, income tax, and an annual property tax for the labor force of the Nation while the capitalists of the Nation get tax breaks as being fair or just but I am sure everyone sees some favoritism for capitalists.
Independent studies are starting to show a link between "Mandatory" vaccines for children and autism. What a hell for both parent and child to live through. Parent and child both trapped, the child in the mind within the body and the parent forever stuck caring for a child with the heart heavy worry of "who will care for my child when I'm gone?" Accidental or intentional there is a link and instead or stopping the vaccines for more rigorous testing, they continue to endanger the lives of innocent children so a small group of shareholders can continue to make more paper profits, and avoid a class action lawsuit the likes of which we will never see. The same could be said about aspartame ( The sweetener breaks down into methanol and formaldehyde), which Donald Rumsfeld (as CEO of Searle - the company who created aspartame )pushed pass the FDA under his fellow Republican, President Reagan, a trillion dollar industry now, and I doubt a class action lawsuit will ever see the light of day.
Who gave them such power over our children. Is it a coincidence that almost all marketing is intended to be understood by 8 year olds or that the strongest return on money spent in marketing is for the youth age group. Sex sells we all know but as we use sex more and more in marketing, ads, print, and television is it any wonder (and what a coincidence) that impressionable children are more and more sexually active at younger ages? So what if children are raising children, every child born is money to doctors for delivery and health care. Every item bought for that child and by the child is income and profit for some corporation plus all items bought are taxed. A poor, hungry and abused child is still worth millions in revenue one way or another over that child’s life. The quality of that child’s life is of no concern what so ever in the eyes of the ruling class because it has no impact on the ruling classes quality of life.
In conclusion all I am really trying to say is that 98% of all corporations have no care for people, ethics, morality, or decency; Corporations only care about profits at any cost. By their very nature most businessmen hold greed in their hearts and are elitists ie. money equals power and vice versa, and no one really likes to share either. Ethics hardly makes money, but they might save humanity. Copyright 2008 C.D.Walker |
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