How much pandering and political corruption do American corporations really need to succeed?
Other advanced countries are much tougher on corporations and,for instance, don't give huge corps like IBM tax breaks/fee breaks to stay around San Jose. You might think these huge , super-profitable American corporations that are sitting on $Billions and $Trillions instead of hiring over 9% unemployed Americans would be ashamed of their conduct. Nope.
You might think the Senators and Representatives in Congress who do the Corporations bidding, instead of "for the good of the people", might be ashamed especially of their recent very irresponsible conduct. HP laid off 30,000 employees,,, and then after buying more corporate jets, Republican Ms. C. Fiorina tried to win/buy the California governorship, like Republican eBay's Meg Whitman. Americans really need to remember the recent California history of recalling our Republican Governor,'fired' Grey Davis, who lied about deregulating home power and the price would go down,,, and the budget being 100days late and costing us broke Californians(see "enron" dvd movie) $56M/day , each of those 100 days recently. That is just a taste of how far the Republicans are willing to ruin these United States. Is irresponsible, delayed and backlogged Congress ashamed?
Nope.
You might think the President, Mr. Obama, who ran a campaign with all the fine talk of ,,, ending the wars,,, ending the other parties tax cuts for the rich ,,, getting USa back to work with major public works projects ,,, single payer and even just the small concession of a public option to a much needed revision of the nations health care ,,, to Leading us out of decades of Republican fiscal and truthtalk failure ,,, and who used the words "hope" and " change" to get us to vote for the first black President in the history of the Nation ,,, might be a little ashamed at how poorly he has done, so far, in being the Leader of this American Nation.
Imagine you are in the shoes of someone in college now, and how hopeless everything seems. The Republicans want to or will let their radical fringe , the Tea Party, seriously damage financially and politically and our reputation around the world, the AAA rating of the USA. Are we all really going to elect a Repubican "pretty face", shallow as that is, and go backward to the days of unhappiness with Reagan and Bush 1+2 ? Is the Democratic Party so weak, they are counting on the unlikeness of a viable third party , to keep them in power ??
Yikes,,,
