Sisterjanessa's Blog

I know the state of the Union here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. It’s one where nobody knows anything and nobody cares.  You might tolerate a state like that in-say, a paint store or a convenience store. But the new total bottom line theocracy in the U.S. businessman’s mind predominates even into the physician’s office, one of the places you always thought you could rely on for “care”.

I’m not sure when the kick-off began, but since the 90s, the slogans for business cry “cut all expenses to the very bone!”. Reduce quality to the very lowest you can possibly get away with…charge the highest price any jerk is stupid enough or desperate enough to pay…and for god’s sake, get rid of all employees you possibly can. Employees are expensive; knowledgeable employees even more expensive. Replace them with computers, make the rest work three jobs, and hire minimum wage monkeys for everything else you need.

Wages cost too much in America so now all employees are gotten from undeveloped  countries where the wages run $.60-1.50 a day. Import crap from slave factories and crap-making countries so you can “sell for less” than any American craftsman or American factory  can. Who cares if customers can’t understand your foreign employees? Who cares if the toys are dangerous? Who cares if the American economy goes under? As long as my mega-monopoly does well, and my profit margin stays at 800% or more.

If you think for a minute about this state of affairs, you will see that these unethical, unsocial, immoral business  practices will create an American wasteland and an oligarchy which, in the future-maybe even now- will not be able to be challenged or taken down.

I just pray I will not live to become Chinese, not that there is anything wrong with Chinese people; it is their government I abhor, and I don’t wish to live under it anymore than I would voluntarily move to Moscow or Iraq, with current conditions the way they are. That is why I point out these things here and now, because I would prefer that the U.S.A. avoid such a wretched, unjust future of rule by the exclusively rich, the communist, the dictator. Preservation of freedoms that America has known since its independence must begin now and we citizens (the government can’t do it because they are part of the rich & the powerful) must work to divert a runaway capitalism and replace it with a more moderate and regulated system where fair play, equal entrepreneurial opportunities, and justice are applied with equanimity and with ethical  systems of responsibility and accountability. Then, we can move back to a state where quality, good service, and people are much more important than the total bottom line.

Suggestions for Citizens Who Care:

!!!stop buying from publicly traded companies- no matter how persuasive their ads sound!!! (they are screwing us the whole way to the bank) !!!

There are agencies in this country who make billions of dollars per year by sitting around thinking up psychological and manipulative tricks to put in advertising to make people buy things that are bad for us, that we don’t need!

OK-they’ve downsized, laid off, and replaced employees with insane computers few can operate (can we lynch the guy who developed the computer telephone answering system?). The employees who are left have to do the work previously done by all who were laid off. They’ve outsourced the  factory work, they’ve reduced full-time people to part-time (cheaper for them) and they don’t mind at all selling us tainted and toxic food, dangerous medications, and other defective plastic items that break with normal usage, for the same price  we used to pay for better products years ago. How long will we stand for this????!!!!!!!!!

The expected life span of a laptop computer is currently 2 years. (@$800-1200)???????????

Large purchases for a middle class 1950s home/lifestyle:

refrigerator

stove with oven

1TV (color if you were fortunate) (shared)

1car (shared)

1 telephone (shared)

washing machine & electric dryer

hot water heater

furnace

Large purchases for year 2009 family:

refrigerator

stove and oven

microwave

large screen TV (family room)

additional TVs (each bedroom and possibly other rooms)

DVD players (one for each TV)

cable boxes/dvr/Tivo/satellite boxes (1 for each TV)

VHS player (1 or 2)

Digital cameras (1 or 2)

Digital camcorder

Desktop family computer, complete outfit

laptop computers for each child w/ accessories

laptop business computer for dad w/ accessories

MP3 players for each child

sound system connected to 1 computer

surround sound system in family room

cell phones for each member of the family

automobiles for each driving member of family

adjunct transports such as additional van/pickup

Heat pump/HVAC whole house system

hot water heater

1 jacuzzi tub………………………..

Even if prices had remained constant from 1950 to 2009, it is still obvious that the cost of keeping up with technology has caused our current cost of living to skyrocket. Add to that inflationary prices, additional high-priced insurance, and college and job expenses, and we can see why we’re struggling today with economics.

According to a blurb I just read in a magazine, 4 men control all the media in the U.S.!