Again: As the mouse said when he approached the tall piece of cheese, “Best to start at the top.” Good advice, even from a mouse.
It’s depressing but, if someone asked what the greatest threat against America is today, the response would have to be, corruption. Fed by greed, corruption, affecting any of our leadership, stymies the issues we have been unable to resolve or keep resolved. It fuels the fires that consume too much of the potential of America and her people. Only when we replace our privately invested and/or outright owned lawmakers, will our nation be able to begin achieving her full potential.
The top 10 cartels, which we’ve listed frequently, challenge enough legitimate lawmaking in this country that America is dying. The foregone conclusions dictated by their dollars are the reasons our progress has been derailed and why so much of what’s best in, of, and for the nation as a whole has been lost – and our people, railroaded.
As decisions bought and paid for at the top generously serve those who have paid for them, the little people, supporting the nation from the bottom, can only wait for crumbs to fall – and that’s just the tip of this tall piece of cheese. Corporate power is eclipsing the will of the people, overruling the truths America supposedly holds to be self-evident.
We discussed on June 9 never achieving sensible legislation against firearms, from small purse pistols to giant rapid fire weapons, because the NRA and the American firearms industry donates heavily to various campaigns. Just as bad, some lawmakers are heavily invested in the firearms industry. These actions must be reiterated until criminalized.
What about falsely demonized and delayed clean energy? For openers, its various forms are more efficient than oil, less invasive to resource, cleaner, safer and quieter to transport and operate. Despite attempts to insinuate major negative effects on the environment, neither wind nor solar energy pollutes. Including eventual disposal of parts, they surpass oil in long service life, operational cleanliness, and efficiency.
Oil pollutes even before it hits its barrels, despite insider denials, and continues through processing, transportation, mishaps, its use, disposal and residual effects. Clean energy, already successful around the world, is falsely demonized via privately owned news media and propaganda from the oil industries that are already invested heavily in its continued use and dependent on its future profits.
August of 2017, a self-proclaimed insider in the energy field wrote a response in The Herald in reply to Chatterbox. He denied our fossil fuel industry’s inflexibility toward clean energy, citing “consumer sovereignty|”; with due respect: evidence then, and of the half decade since then, has disproven that. Regardless of his mentioning America, at that time, as possibly being “best placed of any country for being on the verge of expanded renewable energy,” other nations are achieving progress past ours.
Our increasing access for continued oil harvesting is supported by recent legislation. Like gun manufacture and sales, some of our leadership is invested in oil – and/or owing to – the cartel. The fuel industry, like tobacco companies, denies or downplays consequences so as to maintain investments. We apologize, but it’s true, and we the people always pay.
If we research the power of the existing commercial food industry, we see the decline of the little guy. America needs corporations, but their saturating influence over our government allows them to absorb and dissolve competition, control food labels – intentionally confusing and misleading consumers – quietly lower weights on longtime standards of food containers, rename and continue to use ingredients that are health risks, and so much more. Research even proves the influx of exiles today is a result of old property wars fought for our corporate food industry.
Even pharmaceuticals are no longer life-saving drugs available to patients in need in this land guaranteeing life and liberty. They’re illusive carrots at the end of a stick that people go bankrupt for, or die without. In this way, too, we can’t compete with other countries that, without drowning in death or taxes, despite that rhetoric, provide them and necessary medical care – free, if necessary. Again … corporate influence.
America is great in so many ways, but going backwards on so many fronts, being passed by countries supposedly inferior to us. Our competitive edge is being stolen. If the decline continues, we simply won’t be America anymore; maybe corporate America will let us keep the name.
This tall piece of cheese must be Limburger; it stinks – from the top down.
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