Who is to Blame?
The Republican Party and its allegiance to Corporate America?
Democrats and their socialistic agenda?
Executives lying to Wall Street to prop up their stocks (and salaries)?
Shareholders demanding unrealistic returns?
Consumers with an insatiable appetite for "Stuff" - maxing out credit cards - home equity loans - then maxing out credit cards again?
Securities and Exchange Commission Directors - providing a false sense of confidence (in irresponsible corporations) in anticipation of big fat Wall Street jobs? (Talk about the "Fox Guarding the Hen House")
An Apathetic Public?
A Clueless Government - Especially the SEC?
Unrealistic Demands of Unions (Daddy always said "the only reason for unions is poor management")
An undue Influence of Wall Street on Politics?
SHORT TERM PROFITS - THEN "CUT AND RUN"
"Corporate Executives and Managers make decisions based only on profits for the next quarter - without any regard to the long term health of the company - nor how it will affect their employees, customers or society."
They are only worried about impressing Wall Street for the upcoming quarter.
Management will risk customer service and other critical company functions just to add a few dollars to the bottom line for that particular quarter or until their next promotion or retirement.
Although this might appear to be a Liberal Website - This site was Launched by a Life Long "Conservative" Republican, embarrassed that the Republican Party has been bought by Corporate America.
From the 1963 Paul Newman Movie "Hud" - Homer Bannon (Hud's Father): "Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.
You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right
and wrong."
Corporate Mangers and Executives have a "Bean Counter" mentality.
(A bean counter is slang for an accountant or finance manager who places undue emphasis on the
control of expenditures - over other important functions of the company - like Sales & Customer Service)
Example - I was employed at one of the two large telephone companies in sales of Yellow Page advertising. Five years ago the finance department sent out a memo proclaiming that the company would no longer reimburse employees for paper refills of their daily planners. In that same email they were proud of the fact that it would save the company One Million per year. Talk about short sighted thinking. Take away a tool that helps the employee's productivity. It wasn't the $30 I had to shell out of my own pocket that upset me - it was the mentally of management that worried me. The brainchild that came up with that idea probably got a nice fat bonus - Of course this is the mentality of a company that still thinks and acts like it is a monopoly. Telco management does not have a clue that print is DEAD - ask any of their advertisers.
The PROBLEM I have and YOU should have with this is that their poor decisions affect our whole ECONOMY - After all, these are "Public Companies".
Corporate America is ruining America, creating the same oppression that our founding fathers revolted against.
Forget "Big Brother" from the novel by George Orwell "1984". It’s not the government that has enslaved us in totalitarianism and serfdom, it’s corporate America – Turns out that the government is clueless and corporate America owns the US government.
The Republican party that I believe in, is not the corporate America Republicans.
It’s the party based on moral values, hard work and common sense. It’s the Republican party that most middle class, hard working Americans, in the heartland, subscribe to. These folks distrust corporate America.
Mom and Pop business owners all across America believe in a Republican party that represents them - Not the corporate giants.
Heartland America's Republican party is so far removed from Corporate America, it does not even resemble it.
It’s a republican party that believes in the free enterprise system from which business can make a profit, while not destroying society or the environment.
Loss of Accountability
I believe that individual small Mom and Pop (Micro) business owners, as a whole will make the right moral and ethical decisions, when going about earning a profit for their business. Because they are held accountable by their peers and themselves.
The problem with corporate America, is that it has become so big, with so many layers of management and bureaucratic red tape, that no one person feels that “They” are accountable for their immoral or unethical decisions. “Hey, I’m just doing what in the best interest of my corporation. I am doing what “I” have been told.” The whole "system" depersonalizes every decision, until the manager or CEO does not feel personally accountable or responsible for their actions. They are "Off the Hook".
Conspiracy?
Trying times are causing otherwise rational people to ask the question:
Is this all part of some elaborate plan to transfer wealth and "Home Ownership" to a handful of corporations - or to the US government?
Seems to be going down like this:
1. Give consumers an unrealistic credit card limit, with no way of paying it back.
2. Consumer spends uncontrollably (supporting 2/3 of the economy), bolstering the coffers of major retail chains, developers and financial institutions.
3. Consumer Maxes out credit cards.
4. Consumer is given unregulated home equity loans, using unrealistic home values to buy more stuff and pay down credit card debt.
5. Consumer maxes out credit cards again.
6. Financial institutions end up owning the majority of real property in the United States.
7. Will these banks soon be owned by the US government????????
Which is worse - being enslaved by the US Government
or Corporate America?
A message to the Republican Party Leaders 02.13.09
Obama did not win – the Republicans lost.
I held my breath hoping I could get behind our new leader, but after what I saw today, my worse fears have come to realization. I am NOT drinking this Kool-Aid (although I admit I was considering it – and it did look nice and cool).
During this last election the Republican Party forced good men and women to abandon their beliefs. Men and Women with moderate or conservative values put their values aside and voted for “change” just because their party leaders and candidates let them down – that’s when the Republicans lost.
I place 100% of the blame (for this steamroller “super majority” that is coming our way) – with the Republican Party & Corporate America.
We have just seen the steamroller in first gear today. Just wait until they put it in second, third, fourth, and then overdrive.
My friends, your very constitutional rights, this day, have started eroding.
We will see the “change” we asked for in the form of losing our national security, our “once great” corporations, our jobs, our freedom of speech (the fairness doctrine & conservative talk show radio) and even our guns. Hell, these liberals will be aborting babies AFTER they have been born – with Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden proclaiming that the Catholics endorsed it.
The liberal’s assault on our right to Freedom of Speech is of particular concern. Seems like these idiots have forgotten their roots (try to tell these flower children of the sixties that they could only have protested “fairly” – but we all know liberals have no common sense and forget history (even their own) very easily. The Fairness Doctrine is just a clever disguise for “Censorship”. Maybe the Chinese really are taking over?
The constitution says freedom for ALL speech. Not just freedom for “Fair” speech. By the way, what multi-billion dollar government agency is hidden in this bill to police this? – and who gets to decide what is “fair” and what is not? I think we all saw the answer to this question today – but no one really knows – because they were not given a chance to read the bill.
Your children and grandchildren will ask you one day “Why did you allow this to happen?” Why did you forgo our rights under the Constitution? Why did you saddle your children with largest debt in human history. Why did you burden us with a socialistic steamroller on automatic pilot and out of control - rolling right down main street.
Now that this monster is cranked up, we will not be able to wean the country off of it. We’re going to be sucking on this monstrous tit for generations to come.
Yes, today is the beginning of the change you asked for. The change you compromised your values for. Just observe how they handled this trillion dollar bill today, because this baby is just warming up.
This is your new government – get use to it.
A handful of my close friends and family jumped sides, (on blind faith) because they thought any change was good, and saw the current choices of moderates or conservatives as part of the problem and not part of the solution - and I can’t really blame them. Therefore, I can only imagine this scenario has been repeated all across our nation. Folks just got scared and the Republicans forced them to jump ship.
For those that held true to their values and beliefs, please pass this along to others and together we should DEMAND that the Republican party CLEAN THEIR OWN HOUSE.
For those that jumped ship, once the Kool-Aid wears off, you should voice your opinion too.
Let the Republican leaders know, it’s time for a “change” in the Republican party.
Do ya think we can find a candidate next time that has been to a Toastmasters meeting or two. I mean, seriously, can’t we find someone to lead the Republicans that can actually speak in public, with an articulate command of the English language - and maybe they could even do it eloquently?
Just because someone is a war hero or has a family pedigree does NOT qualify them to be leaders – give us a leader who can communicate. Give us a leader that has a little technological savvy. Maybe even one that actually uses a computer!
Lee Iacocca said it best in the title of his book “Where Have All The Leaders Gone”. Are the great men and women of our country too obsessed with playing golf, having fun, climbing the corporate ladder (at any expense) - or what?
On the one hand, we know we have whole generation of lost souls. Souls that have been duped by the liberal media and Hollywood. (When the hell did we start listening to the advice of Hollywood anyway? These are freaking actors, and with the exception of Ronald Reagan – most of them don’t have a clue about the real world.)
On the other hand, to see good moderates and conservatives jump ship is disheartening - and the Republican Party has to answer for it.
In conclusion I would urge voters in the states of Maine and Pennsylvania to oust their Republican Senators – Susan Collins (R) Maine – Olympia J Snowe (R) Maine and Arlen Specter (R) Pennsylvania for single handedly allowing the “rushed” passage of this bill, therefore, not allowing ANYONE time to read it.
Maybe this bill will be beneficial in the long run. I don’t know, but I have serious doubts and suspect it’s just a guise for the Democrats to implement the social programs they have had in their hip pockets for years. The really scary thing is that our elected leaders don’t even know – because NONE OF THEM READ IT. Even scarier is the way the Democrats forced it down our throat, with no resistance and no possibility for debate - the Steamroller is coming.
Get use to it.
The CEO @
www.corporate-america-sucks.com