Corporate Culture, Corruption, Consumerism and Greed

"The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff"
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081208_hedges_best_brightest/
This article inspired me to make this video;
See also;

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-...

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• corruption
• corporatism
• corporate
• greed
• fraud
• Wall
• Street
• Madoff
• consumer
• regulation
• Ron
• Paul
• gold
• standard
• AIG
• bonuses

[007bruclee]

Ralph3,

Great video!! Watch this video !!

restoretherepublic(dot)com/top­-stories/meet-the-federal-rese­rve or google (meet the fed)

You can skip the first 5 mins or so, get to the interview with the Chicago Fed's PR person. I bet money you will trip out on the info.

[Ralphdraw3]

I am more worried at corruption at the top levels of American businesses and corporations and banks and investment houses..

[3theThird]

Wonder if Bernie Madoff is going suddenly decide to have a heart attack and get himself cremated before anyone can check if it's really him? Seemed to work in the Enron case.

Funny thing is that Bush pardoned a dead man for any and all crimes, thus allowing his widow to keep the Enron crime proceeds. Those seeking to sue were left out in the cold. No justice.

He was convicted... he died... then Bush said it didn't count and erased the conviction. Very odd.

[drexelohio]

Me too. I live in Dayton, Ohio. We've had a depression for the last 40 years.

Being ghetto-smart is going to be helpful for a lot of folks.

[Ralphdraw3]

@halflinks I hope this is not a "normal bubble" - 9% unemployment for many months; more than 100 American banks go bankrupt; several of the world's largest investment banks freeze credit and cannot raise money; millions of people in foreclosure; many states are bankrupt; many European countries go bankrupt.

This is a calamity and a catastrophe - American "captialism" is rigged and corrupt.

[YaoiHuntressEarth]

I guess I can see where the over-desire for money can come from: money can't judge your and will let anyone have it (even the most unlikeable of people). It can make people "like" you, grant you popularity without the needed charm and bring upon temporary happiness in material posessions.

I agree with the gold standard not being able to solve the corruption problem, because greed is greed no matter what the currency is.

[elbowbiter1]

@jcfan42 What is the solution sans voting? Creating abundance is vital. How do we do that? Technology and Education. Do you need to vote to install solar panels? Do you need to vote to throw on a condom and stop having too many kids? Do you need to vote to read a book on how to grow hydroponic food? Do you need to vote to do anything? If you answer yes to any of this... then "reject the systems dictating your norms."

[jcfan42]

@elbowbiter1 Then what is the solution? I presume (perhaps I have misjudged?) from your other comment that you are anarchist - the public perception of any movement cannot be of people getting into street fights with cops all of the time. At this point, voting cannot be totally disregarded even if most elections are lost. In some ways you can be successful even when losing...

[elbowbiter1]

@jcfan42 I would abolish money and all the bullshit that goes with it which includes corporations. The end of the days of merchants and bankers will be in our lifetime or we are all going to inhabit a dying wasteland. "Type I civilization or bust" and "Reject the system dictating the norms." are my mottos.

[elbowbiter1]

@jcfan42 If you join in a rigged game of cards... either you are in on it or you are the one being bilked. That is why I say don't vote there is no hope. Voting is the lamest form of exacting your will on the population... there are way more effective means then voting for pre selected corporate shills. Voting IS sitting on the fence... now get off and make a difference... like me!

[jcfan42]

@elbowbiter1 Why not? Perhaps we can still change it - sitting on the sidelines quietly never helped us...

[jcfan42]

By the way - what do you think of the abolishment of corporations as a business model?

[jcfan42]

You can dismiss the Constitution all you want, but if we do not hold government to some standard, we get what we have now - a group of people who think they can do whatever they want to us. I suppose some of the blame for this situation does rest in education - people were never introduced to the idea of constitutional government, so most of us never even think about it.

[jcfan42]

Obama and "halfway decent president" do not belong in the same sentence. Most of these politicians are in the pocket of the bankers - Obama has never been any different.