Trade, The Dollar and BRIC

[denuseri]

Corporations are dickweeds? Please explain.

No problem, but it may take a whole seperate thread to go into the whole thing...they certiantly didnt start off being dickweeds, they just have managed to pull a lot of wool over a lot of eyes recently and really dont care how corupt they have become.

Management has a responsibility to the shareholders.

And as human beings they also have a responsibility to their fellow humans to not be explotative dick weeds, which should come first I wonder?

To make a profit.

If thats all they care about or its their number one sole priority, then they make the top five on my dickweed list for sure hon.

That is the purpose of a company.

Perhaps it shouldnt be their sole purpose then.

If they can make a profit AND compete - i.e. sell the products or services successfully, by producing their goods or services in this country for this country...they will.

Well if you watched the ABC report, it is pretty obvious they can, but are choosing not too becuase it doesnt maximize their profit margins.

The aggravation and costs of purchasing out of country can be staggering (I know this; I used to do it.) But if the cost of doing it in country is greater, then it goes off shore.

Humm, lets see, right now they are being paid by the tax payers, without having to be pay back anythng. Same way they swindled us during the bail out, only now, thanks to their having bought of the surpreme court, they can do it (outright buy off politicians) legally.

Contrary to some conspiracy theorists, no company (not even Microsoft) can "control the world".

No one corperation does, but collectively they most certiantly do exert far more influence than any one else can over government, short of the massess outright rebelling in the streets. So much for freedom , so much for democracy, or equality, thats all out the window when the allmighty dollar is involved. Who has the most money, like in a game of monopoly, apparently wins.

Yes, there are some high level managers who don't give a shit about anything except making money for themselves.

Yep the dickweeds.

But over 80% of all companies in the USA are small companies.

Small business is not the corperate dickweeds I am talking about. In fact they are exploited by the megacorperations allmost as much as the consumers and workers themselves, sometimes more so, since they hardely would like to see any of the little guys be able to succeed and get into a position to threaten their own profit margins. They even have their government cronnies doing a lot of the legislative dirty work of keeping them small...kinda like the old feudal lords used to oppress the tradesmen and serfs of the meddile ages, only under a thin veneer of law propaganda and orwellian new-speak.

Just trying to stay open, pay their overheads and make enough to survive.

Like I said, the corperate dickweeds are all about keeping the little man with the small business down.

If you want to equalize the impact of size and influence, support the Fair Tax.

How about instead we eliminate all the tax loopholes and governemnt kick backs to the super rich dickweeds who have been stealing from the system for so long instead. The so called "fair" tax isnt fair for anyone but the rich.

This will eliminate most of the favorable company legislation that is a normal practice of larger companies (and has been for centuries.)

If it does I would certiantly be surprised.

If a company can compete legally and profitable, I don't care how big they get.

To bad the big corperations dont play fair when they spend billions of dollars more to influence those making the laws so that they favor themselves and work against everyone else huh.

Companies don't have the power of the law to forcibly extract possessions from citizens like government does.

Which is why, if the governemnt was actually in charge we may see some of the wealth being redistributed instead of hoarded by the top 1% or the population. Instead its rather obvious the same top 1% are wealthy corperate dickweeds are the ones really calling the shots, especially in the military industrial complex side of the house and the oil and energy industires who support them.

No one forces anyone to purchase from any particular company. It's a choice. We vote with our dollars. If you don't like imports, buy locally. If the products aren't available from a local manufacturer, support the Fair Tax. That will bring more jobs, products and economic success to this country faster than anything else imaginable. Here's a concept - everyone who thinks having a company is simple and easy - try it! Start a company. Make a payroll. Comply with the morass called "taxes and compliance". Then come back and tell me how easy it is to stay in business.

The only problem with that little sugestion of yours is that to start a small business and compete fairly things have to actually be fair to begin with.

They clearly however are not.

Instead what we have is very onesided game of king of the hill where the elitist dickweeds are at the top holding a machine gun to keep the little guys from making it anywhere but maby a couple feet past the edge of the trench your in, and you dont even get to have a gun to use in opposition.

That or be one of the dickweeds yourself to begin with, but then your not in the trench at all anyways, your allready at the top.