PART TWO
Last blog I wrote about the "free" market and how it doesn't work, looking at control of choice, unfair competition and built in bias, advertising and selling goods designed to fail in order to create further sales. I should have added at that time that companies are also happy to rush goods to the marketplace before the teething problems are ironed out. Of course stupid consumers help make this happen by preordering goods. What kind of numbskull pays the greedy capitalist BEFORE they have the goods. The mind boggles!
These are just a few of the tricks hidden up the sleeves of the capitalist. Yet people still labour under the false assumption that it is a free market, which they take it means that the system is open to all and has rules that govern it. In actual fact, the "free" in free market means free to shit on everyone that you are bigger than and help yourself to their resources.
Not only do you need to have loads of money, the backing of a bank plus premises and a license to trade or manufacture, without the right contacts there is no guarantee of any success. This is evident most in the modern era. At the dawn of the industrial revolution, through shady dealings and bully boy tactics certain families became the "nouveau riche". They were mainly made up of international Bankers and industrialists. These people saw themselves as the new royalty and the mood of this new class was one of optimistic megalomania: as the future unfolded they expected to replace Royalty and be the ultimate elite and set out to interfere as much as possible with the community and the individuals therein. Apparently they know what is best for us.
These are the people of the illuminati, who seek to replace royalty, religion and government . National governments cede power to larger organisations such as the EU. This diminishes National identity in favour of federation, eroding nationalism and individualism. Do not make the mistake that most conspiracy theorists do by including the Royal family in with these criminals, the Royal Families of Europe and the Freemasons stand for OLD values and an old order. The new world order would either destroy these groups and steal their knowledge and wealth or, alternately ridicule and trivialise them in the eyes of the people - THEN steal their wealth and knowledge. It could be argued that they are at war with each other now for control of society. I admit this is an unusual view but I truly believe that the NWO is separate from the Masons and the Royal families. I also believe that the Bilderberg meetings are not just a straightforward sit down to map out the future sort of event: I think it is two sides coming together to negotiate.
So, point five, six and seven are that you need money to make money, without contacts you fail and those with the power transcend national borders and dominate economies and ignore any laws that get in their way.
As an example of how the modern political/economic balance is changing let us look at point eight of this list: Blackmail. The worst kind of blackmail, the "too big to fail" bailout is a subject on its own, to be examined later. For now, let us look at how the corporate world is willing to blackmail governments over jobs and tax breaks. First of all we have out and out robbery of the country - Tax evasion. What happens when the little guy doesn't pay his tax? They lose his/her home and go to jail. In the UK tax is removed from a workers wages before they get them! Who are they really working for?
THIS link is a good example of corporate wankery. General Electric, for one, posted record profits and paid NO tax. The ten worst offenders are listed by Senator Sanders. He'd better watch his back, he will be on a hitlist now. How dare he suggest that corporations should pay more tax! All the usual suspects are there, Exxon and Bank of America actally got REBATES! What a cesspool we are forced to live in. The moral codes of society are being destroyed. Now, what was bad is good: what is good is squashed.
There is also the offshore corporate scam. To avoid U.S. taxes corporations use offshore subsidiary companies
As the paragraph below, from the article shows, unfair advantage can be gained by using loopholes:
"The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress' investigative watchdog, has found that "a majority of America's largest publicly traded companies and the U.S. government's largest federal contractors use multiple subsidiaries in offshore tax havens to conduct business and avoid paying U.S. taxes," writes Carol D. Leonnig for The Washington Post."
How can it be a free market when the richest can cheat? The corporations have all the resources: the top Lawyers they employ find the loopholes and legitimise the shell companies as well as representing the capitalist in court. Why would anybody want to give a corporation the same rights as an individual? Yet somehow they won this right. The law, is indeed at times an Ass.
Another example of a corporation demanding special treatment is provided by FIFA. The international football organisation demands tax free status wherever it sets up a competition. Nations that play football (Soccer to any Americans reading this) should tell them where to go. Why should a footballing organisation get tax free status?Why should any company?
THIS example is classic blackmail. It may be from 1999 but it is still worth studying. The company involved screwed millions in subsidies then threatens to shuts up shop when they stop. They knew that if they threatened to take jobs away politicians would worry about how it made them look.
Over here in the UK the power companies are amongst the biggest blackmailers. They just don't like the idea of going green because it will cost them money (of which they have plenty).
I would imagine that EDF are particularly worried as they are nuclear poisoners.
If there is a sneaky and underhand way to do things capitalism will find it. Take Obamacare, for example. The Presidents aim was to provide help for those who can't afford it. Unfortunately for him, he is president in a country where millions of ignorant people have been taught by the loony right, the tea party and such, that to help people in need leads to communism. What a bunch of twats! On top of this, the corporations have found ways to exploit the situation and deliver a kick in the groin to their workers. Take a look at THIS example
So that the greedy, heartless profit loving America hating capitalists can avoid contributing to Obamacare they have cut their workers hours so that they do not qualify for the bast- er, bosses contribution to the Affordable Care Act. This is diabolical behaviour of the lowest kind. It is this kind of action that makes me hate capitalism. The workers provide all the effort to create products, often in industries that leave workers exposed to conditions that are detrimental to their health. They SHOULD be provided for by the evil godless profit zombies that they make the profit for. Instead workers are treated like crap, jobs are moved to the far east to exploit workers in those countries by paying even lower wages than in the U.S. and the future is one where almost all jobs will be done by machines because they are easier to program than humans.
I have raised this point before: if nobody has any wages how are they supposed to afford consumer goods? How long can the current system go on before the number of unemployed across the realm of western capitalist countries becomes a problem that the elite have to "deal" with?
There is another example of blackmail and lies HERE
All over the world corporations try, and often succeed in controlling government actions and fleecing the taxpayer into the bargain. This blog has looked at how the system is set up for the wealthy by the wealthy, has transcended national boundaries and use their clout to blackmail governments to get what they want: big profits not to be shared with workers or the government. Next time I will round off this examination of the money making scam that is called free market capitalism by looking at the big subjects such as war for profit and price fixing.
Remember,
DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE RULES AND DON'T BE RULED BY THE FOOLS!
Until next time
Love and peace to you all.
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