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Actions Speak LouderThe corporate takeover of America is well under way; |
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Something terribly strange has happened in America--something historical, something epic, something momentous... the corporate take-over of the United States. Like all carnivorous corporations, America Inc. has to experience growth just to break even; it has to expand its market penetration in order to continue business, to pay its executive salaries/benefits packages and have enough left over to slide a cut back to investors and shareholders. We are now witnessing the first terribly tangible evidence of upper management's growth strategy, an aggressive campaign to open new markets, dominate more of the world marketplace and acquire new supplies of raw materials. Don't think for a moment that the sacrifice this nation's leaders are asking the men and women... will be rewarded... When they have taken our money and our young people, when they've taken away our freedom to go anywhere we want anytime we want to, do anything we want while thinking and saying anything we want, what is left of the "American Way of Life" we're protecting? The freedom to drive our cars on overcrowded, crumbling highways for the privilege of slaving our lives away at a company with cruddy benefits and lousy vacation so that a few top executives can ive fat and immune from penalty? [Just} The freedom to satisfy ourselves with rabid consumerism instead of self-determination... We've entered a world of Orwellian doublespeak, when the connection between word, meaning and deed has been finally severed... When the administration's spokesmen tell us that "lives will be lost," they do so with the same casual indifference that a plant manager announces cutbacks in factory personnel and with about the same amount of concern. The disconnection of word/meaning/action mirrors America Inc.'s upper management disconnection from the people of this country... How long are we willing to ship our children off as cannon fodder for militarized market expansions?
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