I've been thinking:
If government was acting in the public -- and not the corporate -- interest, Occupy wouldn't be necessary.
If journalists were adversaries to the rich and powerful -- instead of their stenographers -- Wikileaks wouldn't be necessary.
It's pretty unbelievable to me that a group of people who covered up pedophile priests for decades has any moral authority at all.
I keep hearing conservatives complaining about government intruding on their religious freedoms. It's hard to take them seriously when they're doing everything they can to impose their narrow beliefs on the rest of us.
If government was acting in the public -- and not the corporate -- interest, Occupy wouldn't be necessary.
If journalists were adversaries to the rich and powerful -- instead of their stenographers -- Wikileaks wouldn't be necessary.
It's pretty unbelievable to me that a group of people who covered up pedophile priests for decades has any moral authority at all.
I keep hearing conservatives complaining about government intruding on their religious freedoms. It's hard to take them seriously when they're doing everything they can to impose their narrow beliefs on the rest of us.
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For the vast majority of people, myself included, it is a corporation that pays our salaries. Through taxation, both of their own profits and the salaries they pay us, government is funded. It therefore makes sense for governemnts to align their own interests with those of the business comunity. The problem is that companies are now so corruted by the current system that they're not serving their own interests let alone those of the people. Governement has just been dragged down along with them.
Everything about our modern financial system is tailored towards short term profit and quick retun on investment. There is no plan for long term growth or sustainability. I've seen this at my own company and at others. Everything is done to serve the interest of the investors/shareholders. Whose intrests are frankly limited only to how much money they can make and how fast they can make it.
It's not the the investors are (always) an evil bunch. Most (major) investors don't even manage their own portfolios. They just don't care. They have no reason to.
People are acountable to the government they live under and to the coroprations that pay their salaries. Government, while theoreticaly accountable to the people, are entirely dependant on corproations. Corporations are, to a limited extent, accountable to government but more so they are accountable to their investors.
Investors are accountable to no one.
Occupy is necessary to bring to light the fact that the system we've been relying on for the past 100 odd years, is broken. It is a system based on zero accountability and like an aggressive cancer its corrupting influence has now spread to every part of its host.
Unfortunately with zero resposibility comes zero power. Though there are certainly a few small groups of individuals who are dispraportionately wealthy and who use their influence to prevent change in the system, the system its self is not controlled by anyone. This evil has become self-sustaining, and unless someone is granted the power to do something about it, it will continue to spread until it eventually kills it's host.
(sorry for ranting...)