Government, What Is It Good For?

Extreme hucksterism is the real star of the corporate show.

Extreme hucksterism is the real star of the corporate show. That’s why American government foolishly thumbs its nose at its average citizens by showering corporations with tax, lobbying and environmental breaks from all three branches. That only makes those corporations socialist Godzilla welfare queens with William Shatner sized sense of entitlement and Vladmir Putin’s allegiance to America.

Government is governing. Government exercises lawful authority so that it can manage its functions. In America, government is by representative democracy. Government is good. At times, certain members of government are bad. Government still remains good. For example, although each had admirable traits, that did not mitigate the fundamentally destructive fact to America that Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, the most recent looters of America, were way wrong when each unsuccessfully tried to use the macroeconomics of capital shortage, taxes and regulation aka government as blame for America’s decline from # 1 in production. Government had nothing to do with it. U.S. industry’s corporate Bad-Boy Executives are solely to blame for their company’s drop in production.

The microeconomics put into play by corporate managers is what, and who, is responsible for any recession. It is quite revelatory. Capital shortage is due to the capital that instead was expensed, destroyed or transferred. Like in wars, illegal drugs, prisons proliferation, wealth inequality (wealth is just far too important to trust it solely to the rich), plant and animal extermination, blind eye to mortgage fraud, large carbon footprint SUVs, Hummer limos and private jets, Golden Parachutes of avarice, billions of American dollars stolen in Iraq, ego-mansions, and environmental degradation.

Like in the stifling censorship and homogeneity of mega-media’s, and disturbingly increasingly blog’s, corporate treatment of content as news and entertainment that has zero edification, inspiration, relevancy, or depth. It’s just flimsy wrapping for extreme hucksterism. That extreme hucksterism is the real star of the corporate show. This extreme hucksterism by the corporations is a dangerous rapidly growing virus-like acting contagion.

Hucksters consumed the capital. The capital shortage is in poor health, lack of education, intolerance, ignorance, plant and animal welfare, bigotry, environment, and crumbling infrastructure. By definition, capitalism is blind to all. There is so much more to life, and in each one of us, than financial profit. Therefore, it is the function and duty of government to fairly and reasonably tax and regulate to provide properly for all that capitalism proudly fails to provide.

GOVERMENT, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR

We Americans have been conned by the corporations into riding off into an illusionary sunset. Corporations know that government is good. It is the corporations that are bad. Their business model and capitalism require it. Here is what government is good for. It is American government that founded and has kept America alive and kicking for a lot of years. It is Great Britain government that subsidized the creation and development of industrial capitalism. It is American government that ended slavery while surviving and ending a civil war, ended prohibition, gave women the right to vote, gave protection to inter-racial marriage, workers, workplace, environment, animals, and kept the playing field level.

It is American government that arranged the settlement of the American West with the Trans-Continental Railway. It is government that built the Suez Canal, Hoover Dam and assists artists, and subsidies universities research and development programs.

It is American government that protects civil rights. American government daringly landed a human on the moon with a safe return within the ten years established by the head of government, John F. Kennedy. It is American government that conceived and built Ike Eisenhower’s massive dream of an interstate highway system exceeding Adolph Hitler’s Autobahn. Eisenhower’s largest public works project in history was more than forty-six thousand miles of highway.

American government successfully dedicated itself to social welfare, the arts, science, education, and highway beautification and comfort with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society vision of inclusiveness. The inclusive emphasis and the money to back it was on ecology, smart public broadcasting, child and senior nutrition programs, Head Start, arts, having millions more acres in national parks, education, creating the National Institute of Health, recycling, libraries, animal welfare, reducing poverty, environment, Peace Corp, Vista, Americorps, healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, product safety, and eliminating the non-violent offenders in prison – specifically drug users and white color criminals. Drug users deserve rehab.

We Americans have been conned by the corporations. Corporations know that government is good. It is the corporations that are bad. Their business model and capitalism require it. It is government that bailed out corporations in The Great Recession of 2005 to ? whenever it ends. Government bailed out corporations that caused The Great Recession

It is government that provides properly for all that capitalism fails to provide. It is government that buys us the time for more reflection instead of reaction.

It is government that brought us Earth as Art.

Government is good for Founding Father Alexander Hamilton’s thoughts on a self-regulating economy, “wild speculative paradox.” It is government that ended World War II. Government keeps us out of World War III.

The benefits of having government towers above not having one.

GOVERMENT REGULATION, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR

The corporations are bad. Their business model and capitalism require it. Without the government regulation, which is the mitigating and mediating fairness eye and hand of government, the corporate managers deliberately, uncaringly and irrationally sacrificed the saner and more profitable long-term investments in labor, plant and equipment. What did they do it for? They did it solely for this quarter’s profit. Quarterly profits are meaningless in the big picture, and misleading and wholly misnamed, as quarterly profit is really only immediate cupidity. In other words, the corporate managers are jacking themselves off each quarter.

Competition faltered - many failed. Those that survived became the oligopoly. Even in a pure market, filled with constant rapacious competition, corporate managers make bad and really bad decisions - several times. Without competition, which oligopolies enjoy, managers bad decisions amplify. There is no competition to jump on any error. Therefore, the bad decision isn’t known until it’s too late, and the implosion is fatal at worst, crippling at best.

One all-to-common really bad decision is the welfare queen corporations’ failure to respond to the needs of customers. The customers are every American taxpayer and all consumers. The customers are the communities. The customers needs are clean air, water, soil, and food. The customers’ needs are good health and a safe, comfortable environment. The customers needs include their dignity. The customers needs include getting what was advertised, claimed or promised.

OLIGOPOLY, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR

Government is good and that is a good thing when really bad decision making in an oligopoly guarantees resulting financial boom then bust. Capitalism’s invisible hand on its free market does NOT regulate prices and wages under the corporation-controlled conditions of oligopoly. There is NO free market with oligopoly. Hence no capitalism. Corporations are bad. Their business model and capitalism require it. Oligopolies are real bad.

An oligopoly is NOT capitalism’s free or pure market. An oligopoly has NO competition. Oligopoly is what we unfortunately have today as we foolishly allow it. For those that feel the need to curse someone or more than one, I propose instead of someone you know or a random choice, consider a so much more deserving corporate executive or twenty-two.

In their soulless pursuit of profit, the dominant corporations’ welfare queen executives meet quietly. Quietly because it is illegal to conspire among them as they do. They’re conspiring to manipulate government subsidies such as tax and environmental breaks higher, prices higher and wages lower. To keep this oligopoly with their cheating manipulation, and monopolies, from eliminating capitalism’s free market and its competition, and even keep an oligopoly or monopoly from developing, specific government regulation with audits and penalties with significant teeth in the corporations and their executives is mandatory. That is a beautiful thing. We had it until it was dismantled.

We Americans have been conned by the corporations, profit and not-for-profit, into riding off into another illusionary sunset. Americans work more hours on average than other countries, with no gain to us for it. That’s "us" as an individual and "us" as the United States of America. The gain "we’ve been conned" out of is with only the corporate executives. None of the gain goes to shareholders, the community, the environment, government, employees, or even country. Corporations in oligopolies believe they have no allegiance to any individual, town, environment, or country unless there is a law requiring it.

To make sure no law does require, America is a country the corporations have determinedly distracted with wedge issues like race, welfare, crime, marriage, abortion, drugs, sex, and anybody’s but most especially politicians and celebrities’ personal lives. America, by showering corporations with tax and environmental breaks from all three branches, only makes those corporations socialist Godzilla welfare queens with William Shatner sized sense of entitlement and Vladmir Putin’s allegiance to America.

Oligopolies now control defense, agriculture, transportation, utilities, finance, drugs, health care, media, politics, government, fast food, war, and research & development, among others. They routinely shrug off externalities to the American taxpayer. Corporations are bad. Their business model and capitalism require it. Oligopolies are real bad.

COUNTRY, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR

Country, what is it good for as Colgate-Palmolive declares, “there is no mindset that puts America first.”

One of these arrogant proudly out of touch welfare queens heavily subsidized by the United States of America’s taxpayers, that’s you and I, is the Colgate-Palmolive Company. It was so brazenly ego comfortable with Colgate-Palmolive’s lack of American patriotism, their chief financial officer Cyrill Siewert openly flew Colgate-Palmolive’s $ flag over America’s Stars and Stripes.

There was no American patriotism when Cyrill Siewert declared, “The United States does not have an automatic call on our resources. There is no mindset that puts this country first.” That to me is a threat and a seditious statement. Any mindset that is an American citizen, one doing business on American soil and/or receiving subsidies from the American and/or state governments, that does not put this country first should get the hell out of Dodge now.

If corporations want the benefit of natural person fictional legal status through an American state’s charter of them, then these corporations should be held to the same standards as any American citizen and any state’s citizen. I personally believe that the legal fictitious person status for corporations in their charters should be immediately prohibited, and all corporations have three months to comply. Three months is a quarter, a period they’re used to. That puts the responsibility on the shoulders of individual corporate managers.

Corporations are bad. Their business model and capitalism require it. Oligopolies are real bad. Cyrill Siewert’s bald and disdainful statement that America is not first for the Colgate-Palmolive Company, in an oligopoly, is clear notice of a certain threat to America’s economy and that is a danger to American national security. Yet these openly un-patriotic corporations continue to whine and hypocritically lay claim to an automatic call on American government resources hence American taxpayers’ dollars, yours and mine, when their bad decisions inevitably again took America and the world into financial collapse. Corporations are bad. Their business model and capitalism require it. Oligopolies are real bad.

Government, What Is It Good For? There is more to life, and in each one of us, than quarterly financial profit. Therefore, it is the function and duty of the United States government to tax, regulate and provide for its citizens what is required that capitalism always fails at. Such as investment in health, education, tolerance, plant and animal welfare, environment, art, science, investment, pure research and development, future, and infrastructure. Government is good for channeling resources for all to be a worthy citizen and holding all, including government, and all citizens, accountable to law.

America, a representative democracy, is One Nation Under Law. Law researched, supported, enacted, upheld, or modified at one time by usually worthy, not necessarily rich, citizens. Since American government is made up of elected citizens to represent others, doesn’t worthy citizens mean a better chance of a worthy government?