"Each American and investor of today has seen this writing-on-the-wall. They know in the back of their minds that “this time” is likely the “last time” that their country will see a pivot change which will last for the remainder of their lives..."
It's "High Noon" in America
The Corporation vs. The People
ByJean-Paul Cassone'
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
I have found that to compress and format the socio-financial picture in the United States today has been a fleeting task, as if herding eels on dry land. Holding down two jobs simultaneously in a 60 hour week while maintaining five blog pages for free, a Twitter account and caring for a wife and daughter has made matters all the more daunting.
The 2008 financial meltdown has highly polarized the US citizenry and corporate America. The present squabbling over health care reform is just the tip of the iceberg to an underlying socio-economic volcano that is set to soon erupt. The uniqueness about this situation is that it is not cyclical, but pivotal. What follows this showdown will change the landscape of the US and of how Americans will be living for the next hundred years. To begin a description in the simplest of terms, the people were lulled, lured, coaxed and mesmerized by Wall Street and it's Federal Reserve into living beyond their means and heavily investing in institutions that were later deemed “too big to fail”. This equals “screwed once”. After the crash of ’08 the people not only lost half of their equity, but were strong-armed into bailing-out the very entities which robbed them. This equals “screwed twice”! Then those entities re-rewarded themselves yet again, with bonuses from the taxpayer’s funds. This equals “screwed thrice”! The great health care debate that has followed now continues to expose the audacity, power and might of these institutions who seem to be able to purchase US Senators on-the-hoof while pumping “the people’s revenues” back into secret conspiracy organizations who lobby against whatever the people want that might encroach on corporations rapacious appetites. Yes I have found that many people are a bit scared, but they aren’t scared of their government, but rather “the corporation” and the lack of government officials who can’t be bought by them!
Each of the two sides in “the corporation vs. the people” has arsenals and the line in the sand has been drawn. The corporation will seek to purchase enough senators and media networks, while keeping people just busy enough and broke enough to not have the ample time or resources to legally defend themselves. If this fails, their plan-B is to perhaps “crash the currency” and ever-so-silently and gradually, replace all Americans with a barely legal workforce while encouraging naturalized citizens “to just leave”, but it won’t be so bluntly stated. Without writing a book, the outcome to a corporate win in this “high noon” escapade will give the world a United States that resembles a Mexico or a Columbia, but without affordable health care or education. In the people’s arsenal there is reform, but reform means returning to the same cyclical existence as before reform, only with modifications. As I said earlier, “this is not a cyclical event”, therefore reform will not be enough.
Moving quickly down the people’s arsenal list there is the following:
- Massive protests and the funding of lobbies to anti-lobby
- To win legislation stripping all publically traded companies of any rights to exist beyond a 50 year period (20 to 30 years being even better)
- Successfully enacting a nationwide boycott of all corporations who are not “pro people”
- A violent revolution (Trust me; this wouldn’t work in this day and age. A complete waste of good people and resources)
- Secession. Having various States and/or regions would disperse and leave the United States, to form their own country.
- And finally; “just leave”!
Each American and investor of today has seen this writing-on-the-wall. They know in the back of their minds that “this time” is likely the “last time” that their country will see a pivot change which will last for the remainder of their lives.
It’s “High Noon” in America and much like Gary Cooper, the posse of deputies to help “the people” keeps getting smaller and more paid off. It’s time to take cover in this town (America). Things are about to get real ugly! Just how many will suddenly drop out of circulation altogether and do prepare to leave may surprise you. Let's hope not!
I was born in Manhattan and patted on the head at the age of 3 by Howard Hughes on the steps of an old New York A&P which had sawdust on the floors. I've had close associations with former vice presidents of Aetna, Merrill Lynch, IBM, Smith Barney and Black Enterprise and was previously in wholesale distribution for Polo Ralph Lauren. After I married, I remained in China for 3 years doing business language coaching, conceptual instructions, negotiations and research for 25 separate organizations and companies such as Total-Fina-Elf, Rockwell Automation, Whirlpool, New Oriental School, Nanhua University of Industry and Commerce, Sci-Head Patient Lawyers and True Alaska Bottling. I'm currently employed with a small publishing firm in Palo Alto, CA.
