American corporations are not regulated by the market, by the government, or by themselves. They are so far out of control, in fact, that they have a bigger impact on government than government has on them. There is no chance whatever to create a healthy population or a healthy society until they are reined in.
If you've read What's Wrong with Partially Hydrogenated Oils? and What's Wrong with American Foods?, you know that the American food supply is laced with substances that are damaging to your health. But those substances, by and large, are not present in the food supplies of Europe and Asia--either because the corporations there are too ethical to include them, or governments are smart enough to make them illegal, or both.
Meanwhile, the FDA has no mandate to safeguard your long-term health. The FDA is only concerned with cases of acute food poisoning--not chronic, long-term damage.
For more, read Poisoning for Profit: What's Wrong with American Corporations?
28 April 2010
21 April 2010
A Short Citizen's Guide to Reforming Wall Street
Great ideas. But...
The street is spending $500 million to lobby against it, and the Supreme Court has determined that corporations can spend all they want to influence elections--which gives those lobbyists even more power.
How can corporations with more money than the government ever be controlled by a government they effectively own?
I submit that job number one is to make money irrelevant to elections, by using social media to make information transmission so efficient that undecided/
Example: The "Right to Vote" measure in California is obviously funded by electrical companies, to prevent a government takeover the next time they attempt to scam the state for billions, as they did in the last energy crisis. Their ads run 30 times a day, and the election is months away.
That issue, and the vastly more important need to regulate the commercial institutions, are symptoms of the same disease--a government in which money dominates, rather than ideas. The game can be changed, and it must be.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The street is spending $500 million to lobby against it, and the Supreme Court has determined that corporations can spend all they want to influence elections--which gives those lobbyists even more power.
How can corporations with more money than the government ever be controlled by a government they effectively own?
I submit that job number one is to make money irrelevant to elections, by using social media to make information transmission so efficient that undecided/
Example: The "Right to Vote" measure in California is obviously funded by electrical companies, to prevent a government takeover the next time they attempt to scam the state for billions, as they did in the last energy crisis. Their ads run 30 times a day, and the election is months away.
That issue, and the vastly more important need to regulate the commercial institutions, are symptoms of the same disease--a government in which money dominates, rather than ideas. The game can be changed, and it must be.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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