Homeland Serenity

There has been an idea brewing in the back on my mind for some time… nothing very radical, unless being sensible and sustainable seems radical to you.  The idea has to do with answering the inquiry: what would I do differently than currently exists, and how would I do it?  Big questions, perhaps largely unanswerable, but one never know until one makes the attempt, right?

On the matter of corporations being given the status of ‘human being’ in our country, with all the supposed rights and privileges that accrue to that decision: what a ludicrous concept, and what a damaging act on the part of our Supreme Court!  The outcome of this in our current time is that corporations are considered ‘too big to fail’ (even though they were doing so) and thus it becomes necessary to ‘bail them out’ to prevent that failure.  We The People are burdened with the effects of that decision – the costs thereof, the effects thereof, and the results thereof – while the corporations blithely continue their operations, make their massive payments to individuals within the company, announce layoffs that take the livelihood from hundreds, even thousands of workers in the corporations, resulting in a feeling among the People that corporations are more important than they are, that corporations which have poor management or make poor decisions will not cease to operate (as we are accustomed to the past 200 years) but be empowered and paid to continue!  Meanwhile, We The People are drowning in the negative effects of these corporate activities: pervasive foreclosures and the ruination of thousands of communities, loss of family homes and lifetime investments, loss of 401(k) plans and savings, loss of security that our nation is a valid and well-run operation, etc.

So I ask you: if corporate ‘people’ cannot be allowed to fail, why are human people being allowed to, ramrodded into failing?  What gives here?  Who is benefitting from these laws? Not We The People….  So, as always here, what solution is proposed?

Any time that We The People are ‘asked’ (voted in by Congress) to support a corporation that seeks bail-out from our government, then We The People should then own the company, since it is our money/support that is being given to the corporation.  And We The people might be invited to all shareholder meetings, and allowed to participate in the management of our new company – it just makes sense, doesn’t it?  If you go to a bank and get a loan for your company, the bank has a vested interest in how their money is spent – that’s what we were raised to ‘know’, right?  And if the government grants you funding for your company’s activities, the government certainly generates a massive quantity of paperwork for your to manage, that is supposed to manage how the government’s investment in your company is used and how it worked out versus what you imagine or proposed.  Doesn’t it make good sense, then, that when The People come into a banking relationship with a corporation, we should get to call some shots on how our investment is being used – likely it would rarely be that top managers – who drove it into bankruptcy or failure – would get big bonuses, at the very least!  Just a thought…