Supply Chains Shorten

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1. Yup, this is part of why I came to Argentina.

2. Dear Congressman/Senator,

   The most common complaint I hear from friends and relatives and co-workers – i.e. the majority of the voters – real live people – is that the Congress “does not represent me ! [i.e. the living people of all walks of life]”

   I wish to quote an item I found in http://informationclearinghouse.info/article3310.htm

   Long before the birth of the American Republic, the British crown adapted the corporation that was the form of ancient universities into a device to dominate British colonies throughout the world, including those on this continent. Through their “crown corporations” the Kings of England and their designated agents governed, taxed, and controlled the production and trade and skimmed off the profits of their colonial lands and subjects, enforcing their reign by military means. When our forebears revolted, defeated the British, and formed the United States, we also wiped out the King’s corporations. They ceased to exist here. That was part of what independence meant to our founding fathers.

   By the time of our civil war, however, the “robber barons,” those famous, greedy, wealthy, ruthless American industrialists, had again found ways to establish device of British kings to their own aggrandizement. In court case after court case for almost a century and a half, corporation lawyers have refined and perfected the legal immunities and powers of these artificial, state-created, wealth-hoarding, irresponsible entities. Beginning in 1886, they prevailed upon the U.S. Supreme Court to grant them virtually all of the constitutional rights of citizens. This in effect allowed them to resume the role of their royal predecessors in ruling the country. In cahoots with their banks, huge corporations now control America’s body politic by reason of their bald-faced purchases of the three branches of the American government and America’s major media.

   In consequence, by the beginning of the 21st Century the United States had ceased to function as a republic, much less as a democracy. These giant corporations, headed in most instances by members of an extremely wealthy elite group of multimillionaires and even billionaires, subvert healthy enterprise and true entrepreneurship. One percent of those at the top of the economic scale now have as much wealth as the bottom 95%, and the ratio keeps worsening. We humans, reduced to being “the non-corporate citizens” of the United States, retain only those rights and benefits that Corporate America allows us. Corporations in essence now elect and control our government, write virtually all its laws, and have control of the police, the courts, and the military.

   This same Corporate America, ensconced now as “the only superpower,” through its foreign subsidiaries and the state-corporate world-governing instruments, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund, effectively controls the entire world. We Americans have come full circle in these past 225 years. We overthrew the British King’s corporate rulers in 1776, but now we suffer the domination of American corporate rulers who are also colonizing the rest of the world on behalf of themselves. [end of quote]

   My questions to you:

   Who do you represent – the voters ( living people ) who voted you into office ? Or corporations ( artificial entities )?

   Do the corporations (artificial entities) have a power to vote for the Congressional office? In other words, does one vote in any election represent one live person or one artificial entity?

   If you represent living people who voted you into office, then why do corporations (artificial entities) have more say on issues in the halls of Congress than living people?

   Would you listen to us “we the people” as living individuals or families more if we living individuals/families formed a “corporation”?

   Looking forward your informative reply.

3. There is a book called “Snakes in Suits” by Dr. Robert Hare, describing psychopaths in business suits. Many CEO’s and top businessmen are psychopaths.

   Book review here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13150054/

   What we have today is psychopathocracy.

4. The courts only acknowledge corporations. PERSONS are corporations. Our entire system is fraud stacked on top of fraud stacked on top of fraud. Honest Abe said it best.

   “As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.”

5. You know maybe the answer to it all lies with this simple statement from Ludwig Erhard, Germany’s Minister of Finance at the close of World War 2:

   “Give us depression or problems, but not inflation, for it spells eventually certain death to any economy.”

   So maybe this is what the powers that be are afraid of?

   Jerry

6. Richard,

   “But, my yellow brick road just led me to the man behind the curtain and, he’s laughing his ass off……”

   LOL!!

   I totally agree. I watched “The Corporation” last night. Corporations are totally out of control today. Funny, in the film they went through the diagnosis of mental disorders(DSM) and the diagnosis of corporations today is psychopathy.

7. @Richard: Historically the answer to your unknown reason corporations have “person” rights dates back in the USA to 1886: the SCOTUS case– Santa Clara County V. Union Pacific RR(1886); the clerk, a former RR employee, included a headnote to the decision where a corporation had legal standing before the court on an equal status as a person…Subsequent, a majority of the cases that relied heavily on the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments ruled upon since the Civil War before the SCOTUS, were filed by corporations rather than that of former negro slaves whom the Amendments were meant to liberate. This embedded the corporation and the Robber Barons thoroughly with the government and we can see the MONEY TRUST since has a lock on the system that was originally meant solely by, with, and for the people…The Congressional Record pre-1913 lists hundreds of interlocking directorates that favored the 16th Amendment and the IRS ACT of 1916….power was vested to the Morgan( Rothschild??), Rockefeller, Loeb, Schiff, Warburg, Carnegie, Hearst( and so many more) faction of America’s economic strata (elite) and have remained there ever since…The advent of the BofE here was a constant threat since the American Revolution….the tea party tax incident was just the visible result of the money trust losing it’s grip on the colonists…Former President Andrew Jackson also repelled the central European banking system ( denying a euro-centric national bank) from encroaching on American soil…Today we are mostly blinded that the Federal Reserve Bank ( a euro-centric private bank )has always been the system we uphold…with all rights reserved…Since it is now under scrutiny ( the proposed H.R 1207 Audit) and Mr. Bernanke’s road show may pose this otherwise secretive organization to be somewhat exposed for the monster it really is..

8. “Companies are increasingly looking closer to home for their components, meaning that for their US or European operations they are more likely to use Mexico and eastern Europe than China, as previously.”

   * This dovetails well with the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America where trade barriers are decreased between the North American Community(prosperity) while quelling any thoughts of resistance stoked by uppity leaders such as Morales or Chavez, pesky indigenous people or disgruntled American workers(security). We have to be careful – these folks aren’t just gonna change and do something better, they are adapting to new constraints and re-inventing themselves.

9. From where I sit, this is good news. Our industrial base began leaving our shores after Nixon removed us from the gold standard and “normalized” trade with China. By 1976 high skilled jobs were leaving the country but, not only did the jobs go overseas, so did the machinery needed in the manufacturing process. I call that treason, pure and simple.

   For far too long, this country has decided against the use of corporate charter renewal. Early in our history, corporations were prohibited. There was good cause, too much power concentrated in one group of people with financial means. For some unexplained reason, our courts decided that a corporation deserves the same protections as a person. Yet, they do more harm to people, places and things than any single person could do. Maybe it’s time to renew our corporations charters and, if they have been found to act in a manner that is contrary to the general good of the population, the charter would not be renewed. If the offenses were severe enough, all board members would be prohibited from acting in any official capacity for any corporation in the future. But, my yellow brick road just led me to the man behind the curtain and, he’s laughing his ass off……

   Let’s shorten the supply c

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