Classic Covert Corporatism

Anybody paying attention understands that our form of government right now can be best described with the word, Corporatism. Simply put, it’s Big Business with a firm hold on their Big Government. The large companies send lobbyists to write and enact legislation in their favor (companies are frequently accused of writing the legislation), influence the creation of government agencies that serve them, and influence the voting process tremendously (Diebold). The ones that have the tightest, most oppressive hold on the government and thus the people are the bankers. Almost every major position in Obama’s administration is related to some banking interest on Wall St., usually banks such as Goldman, UBS, Citi, BofA, JP Morgan, and of course, the Fed. We can’t seem to shake the grasp of Big Pharma, who influence most of our major health policies (i.e. Medicare prescription drugs, immunizations, etc.). The Big 3 carmakers have crippled our car manufacturing industry by influencing legislation to stifle competition and regular market forces that would have forced them to be better companies or go under, be liquidated and started up again by another company with a better plan – or not, and it repeats. Government (the people) “bails out” these automakers that are destroying the industry because the automakers have lobbyists that go to Washington and pull strings to steal money from taxpayers because they can’t stay in business. There’s no way that a polled 98% of people were in opposition to the first bailout and the stimulus and they both got passed without influence from those who benefitted from those bills. It’s hand outs to the rich. The bailouts are just one example on of mountain of them. We give the rich people handouts all the time through the legislation they enact due to this stranglehold they’ve arranged. Just think about the IRS for example. It is specifically designed to pay the interest on our debt to the Fed, who essentially bought everybody in 1933 through the bankruptcy of the US. The Fed, of course, is owned by international private banking interests not loyal to any country. They already have more money than they can do with, their goal is power. They currently have the power in Washington and all over the world. 

I thought about this whole thing because I was walking in the New York Subway and I saw a promotion for NY Subway “Metro Cards.” The ad was offering cash bonuses of $50 if you buy a certain amount of Metro passes with a card from Chase. Sometimes they are blatant but I think this one is a bit covert. Chase is exploiting a government agency to get customers. Yes, the people at MTA probably auctioned and came to a deal with Chase to promote them like any other company would and Chase pays for the advertising. But is it fair and balanced for the government to essentially offer discounts or promotions for their own services if you sign on with certain non-govt. companies? No, of course not, it’s favoritism and market interference. It’s a shame that public transportation “needs” to be public because it sucks anyways. If it was run by a for-profit company, it would have to be better than the trash MTA and Amtrak put together. All one needs to do is look to Japan’s and other countries’ rail systems and you’ll see what’s possible. Ultimately, these government agencies operate like independent companies but they have an operating budget, not an operating incentive and it never produces good results. I don’t think I’ve ever known a government company that I thought was doing a good job. Travel: fail; Post Office: fail; Insurance: fail; Education: fail; Law Enforcement/intelligence: fail – and the list goes on. The fact is, non-govt. companies are the leaders in all these categories and in all industries. Contrary to MSM popular belief, the free market is not what caused our financial problems today. Our problems are from government intervention into the free market, the runaway printing of money by the Treasury and Fed, and the manipulation of interest rates by the Fed. The Fed and the bankers are brilliant though. They’ve done this before, many times. They know how to control populations and they’ve gotten control of the education system on every level. They’ve taught everybody Keynesian economics which perpetuates consumer borrowing and spending by claiming consumerism is what drives an economy, instead of savings and sound money. They’ve taught everybody that the government knows best and if things go wrong, they will intervene, or rather, just when they feel like it. At what point is this fascism? When people hear that, they think of Hitler or Mussolini and object. That’s interesting because there are startling similarities between the US now and those countries then. Read Naomi Wolf, “End of America” and her others. Look around, you’ll see government violations and marker interventions everyday. Right now, we’re short of the openly violent part which many believe is coming (The Pastor proves it’s definitely here on a small scale). So right now, we’re in a state on Non/Semi-Violent Fascism, aka Corporatism.

Right as I was at the end of this and I was watching the Daily Show in the background. Jon Stewart announces that we are buying 65% of GM. He goes on to be outraged at buying such a shitty company. Why do we own this company now? Because the government is suddenly awesome investors or slick carmarkers? It’s utterly insane what kind of Nationalization we are allowing the government to get away with. If we continue to allow the govt. to take a dump on our agreement with them (The Constitution) then we must disband it. We created it, thus we are sovereign to it and it’s actually just a corporation, which is a figment of our imagination and only really exists on paper. It can be dust instantaneously.