Paul Bramscher wrote:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [ Linonut ] on Saturday 03 March 2007 13:56 \__
After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
wisdom:
Corporate power is the new government. It is above the law, it
writes the
law and it has the resources to behave like a nanny.
It is not all that new, either. Eisenhower, for example, noted it.
"Eisenhower". Now that's a big 'word'. I wonder if the current
Commander in
Chief knows what it is, let alone understand the problem he lets his
industry create. People around the world are beginning to hate America
not
just because of politics, but also because of its predatory and
imperialistic industry, which knows neither bounds nor ethics.
Truly, I'm concerned. I have family in the States. I just know how
America is
perceived nowadays... and it's isolating itself from the world, Europe
included.
I'm worried about the UK, the most-surveilled society in the world. From
what I'm reading, I half-wonder if a man can take a piss in the woods
over there without a camera catching him in the act.
Most piss in the streets, and the rules require they face AWAY from the
traffic. The ones who don't get ticketed and arrested in some occasions.
I'm also worried about Australia -- I had some conversations in another
NG with someone there recently, and it sounds like the same game with
inflated real estate and run amok lenders is going on there also.
Since I don't live there, don't much care. I like the 'freedom' adults
have in their own homes, though the stupidity of gun control there
negates safety in a land that has dozens of predators and poisonous
critters.
But there's one silver lining in America's cloud. The current trends
are nonsustainable, and must eventually produce a nodal inflection. Once
it's fully outsourced manufacturing jobs, trade work, and (increasingly)
skill IT work abroad, the entire economy will recede and need to regroup.
Same was voiced by the Buggy Whip Unions, in 1900.
I'm frankly hoping that it does NOT rebuild.
Rather, we just need to provide a tiny nudge -- and outsource corporate
management (itself) along with the rest. Good riddance to the whole
monstrosity.
I wish that the VISTA code was really cracked, just to see the hoopla in
Bangalore! But, it was a fake according to the author.
If you have experienced change and forced moves every year or two,
throughout the first 40 years of life, then, you are ready to welcome
'change' and see the silver linings. I was raised and then served in
the Air Force. Helped to build many orphanages, bridges, villages.
Get http://pclinuxos.com and enjoy the good changes!
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