Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Military Procurement - An Example of Government Waste and Contractor Abuse


Yes, there are ways to bring government spending under control by better monitoring waste:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19840913&id=2AciAAAAIBAJ&sjid=esgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3120,2899219

Freedom is the Big Illusion


By equating our tax pain and earned income with the elite wealthy tax annoyance and unearned income, we undermine our own capacity to build wealth:

Check out this "How unequal are we?" article:

http://extremeinequality.org/?page_id=8

Modern Serfdom in the USA


Our financial system is built to keep most of us in veiled servitude, subsidizing the elite wealthy.  Freedom is an illusion as we struggle to eek out a month-to-month existence (M2ME).  We're free to earn as much as our elite/corporate masters allow us to.

http://www.mybudget360.com/top-1-percent-control-42-percent-of-financial-wealth-in-the-us-how-average-americans-are-lured-into-debt-servitude-by-promises-of-mega-wealth/

Saturday, March 06, 2010

Greed Is The Creed - Is the Non-Profit Model the Way Out?


Where greed is the creed, as with our current form of capitalism, there is very little chance for the under-classes to truly succeed past a month-to-month existence (M2ME). My consumer view of corporations eschewing sensible long-term business strategies in order to please controlling stockholders for the short term, coupled with my long experience working for corporations and seeing those with the coldest hearts and/or family ties rising to top management tells me that most top management got there by living the greed creed.