Frankenstein's Corporate Monster is loose! Run for a legal challenge, quick!
Joseph Raglione
January 25, 2010
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The Frankenstein's Monster Corporation.
By human4us - Jan 25th, 2010 at 3:33 pm EST
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Gentle readers within this United States government, oops, I meant American Chronicle!
The recent Supreme Court decision to allow corporations to buy elections is based on the fact that corporations are deemed as people. To reverse this negative Supreme Court decision, and negative is an understatement, I suggest you declare that a corporation is not a "Person" and that a corporation will never be a "Person" and that corporations are business entities created by an aggregate of people who are, from the top down, individually accountable for their actions.
Corporations, financed by Banks and protected by government, demand that people give up their basic freedom in exchange for group oriented labor. "You must become a team player" is the general rule of most corporations. The "Team" however, is not one individual.
To motivate "Team Players" Banks and corporations use money for this purpose. In the days of Pharoahs, Kings and Queens, whips and chains were used for this purpose. Today in sports, millions of Dollars are used for this purpose.
"Dollars or Money" is a term origianally created for and by governments and generated by Banks as a means for exchanging goods and services, and motivating servient behavior within the lower classes. Today, Banks have become so powerful, they use money to control the governments they once served!
We all know and understand how Government Senators accept large campaign contributions from a few large corporations. Sometimes these Senators vote on behalf of the corporation who pays them in direct opposition to the citizens who voted them into power.
A greed filled economic system has forced millions of people into bankruptcy. Both Banks and governments use debt creation as a method of motivating people. Going to work for a corporation often means sacrificing your basic human rights. People go out and search for money to repay Bank loans and they usually find paid employment within a large corporation. People in debt will work diligently for years in order to repay loans, dreaming of the day they will once again be free individuals. The fear of losing their employment creates a loyal work force for the corporations and for the Banks, and freedom does not mean much when you are passed a certain age and plagued with health problems.
When people become "Team Players, they give up their individual freedom. If the corporation they work for creates pollution, too bad for everybody else on the planet because it has been scientifically proven that people are strongly influenced by peer group pressure. The kind of peer group pressure found within industrial schools, within religious organizations and within industrial corporations, not to mention the governments.
It is a serious problem that individual human rights are consumed within a corporation. The corporate CEO and upper level managers have assumed, wrongly, that each working individual within the corporate shell belongs to them! In the past, Labor Unions within large corporations, helped to protect workers, but todays organizations, like McDonalds and Walmart, refuse to allow Unions to even start up. Also today, protected by a one hundred year old and outdated precedent that tentatively and obliquely gives corporations the civil rights of a "Person," CEO's dodge accountablility for their actions while creating and maintaining a base of low paid workers. Corporate managers act as if they are not accountable for the problems they create within society. Problems ranging from extreme poverty and dangerous Cancer creating industrial pollution to even worse, global warming!
When a CEO is finally challenged for his actions, often the "Its not my fault" excuse comes out. The "Corporation" is at fault and the coorporation should take the blame! My "Team of Lawyers" will fight to protect the corporation.
CEO's, while working within "corporations" consequently do not feel they have to be accountable for the social problems the "Corporate" Frankenstein's Monster, creates. Business corporations have become Monsters" while management Frankensteins enjoy the best life has to offer. A life maintained for them by their own creations.
I suggest you challenge the Supreme Court on its' 'the corporation has the same legal and civil rights as does an individual person' concept. Common sense is enough to understand this is not a fact in reality. In reality, Corporations are entities of the government and are mandated by the government to create employment for people. People with common sense will understand that a corporation itself does not have human and civil rights. Each person working within the corporation does have human and civil rights, but not the covering shell within which they work. I suggest you do this quickly and publicly. Why? Because claiming a corporation has the civil rights of a person is like claiming Microsoft Windows is a person.
Signed: Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
P.S. The following Video features one of the best intellectually dissentient dissertations I've heard in years!
http://www.brasschecktv.com:80/page/791.html
Kill the Unions and get Rich
ReplyDeleteIn the early 1950s, more than one-third of American workers belonged to unions. Bargaining between these workers and their employers helped raised wages, provide health care and pensions for workers. It kept the employer employee compact firm. It also kept executive rewards reasonable and during this period the gap between the CEO and their lowest level employee was approximately a multiple of 20.
Research has demonstrated that a union presence can make have a significant impact on executive pay. One survey, published in the Journal of Labor Research, found that CEOs at nonunion companies take home nearly 20 percent more than executives in unionized firms. Workers in union companies, meanwhile, make $200 more a week than their nonunion counterparts.
In 2008, only 7.4 percent of employees in the corporate world belong to unions and 37 percent in the public sector belonged to unions making government employees the majority of union workers in America for the first time. This absence of a union check on executive pay leaves Wall Street and their CEOs free of sanctions. CEO’s are now free to lower wages, layoff workers at will, reduce health care benefits, eliminate pensions and reward themselves and their stockholders handsomely.
The gap between CEO and employee pay is significantly wide in the service industries, where only a small percentage of employees belong to unions. For example, in food services, employees average about $18,877 a year. The CEOs of the top 10 firms in this industry, corporations like McDonald's, YUM Brands, KFC and Pizza Hut, took home 354 times that much in 2007.