Lawsuits and Corporate America
President Bush promised some tort reform and it will not come soon enough. While the lawsuits are filed even against private citizens, the fact remains that the corporate world is the main target due it having the most money and fame.
Nothing like Jesse Jackson shaking down a business instead of him actually having to find a real job is what he considers to be racist America. Come on Jesse, if you have any skills at all it'd be easy. I'm not at all saying that individuals are not racist, but the American establishment as a whole is not - no matter what he might have us think.
We all recall the moron suing McDonald's because she discovered that coffee was served hot. We've seen the idiotic warning labels on all sorts of items, and we all hear about the new lawsuits all the time.
Why? There has been a growing attempt in the sophisticated left over some decades to vilify anyone or anything that makes money. When communism failed, all the diehards had no place to go, no place to revere, and no example of what they though was a better way. This didn't stop them. It is another example of the Anyone But Bush mentality. It's the Anything But Capitalism mentality. Since the Soviets could not bring McDonalds to its knees, they'll sue them into oblivion.
Another method is the smear tactic. As old as any political campaign, leftist love to kick corporate America around. They coin terms like Corporate Citizenship and then go out to prove that a company like McDonalds really doesn't care about society as much as they do making money.
This actually surprises people on the Left. They seem shocked to discover that after McDonalds sells you a hamburger and you pay for it, they owe you nothing. Sales complete, have a good day. Of course those greedy corporate-types say, "Come again," just to get more of your money.
The left does well to attach Boss Tweed-type names to the corporate world: Big Business, Big Oil, Big Energy, Big Tobacco, Big Guns, Big Pharmaceutical, so forth and so on. They missed two though: Big Government and Big Unions.
This is not to say that it wouldn't be nice to have corporations give freely and help out those who might live in the same neighborhoods who might purchase their products, but some do and some do not. It is the same with individual charity: some people are more inclined than others.
The idea that because some people decide to pay into the triple digits for a pair of shoes that Nike owes the community something is both foolish and childish. To the left all the corporate world looms over society taking from it while giving nothing back.
Many people I know on the right - myself included - do not feel this way. We feel that, as a rules, the corporate world is amoral. It wants money, market share, etc., and for its own survival it must compete to get these things. The product may be $120 shoes, or a new medicine that will help cure a disease, but in the end the corporation is doing it for the bottom line.
This is not to say that making a medicine can not be motivated by a desire to help the world, but the desire to help the world alone will not pay your bills. If you think otherwise please tell the collection agency that you're a nice person and that that you mean well, but you feel it unreasonable that they want money you do not have. If you're an employer tell your employees that you know they like money but to constantly expect a check instead of a pat on the back is capitalist and unacceptable. As an employee how long would you work there?
As a consumer I do expect the best product I can get, and I must match my ability and desire to pay for said object against the quality I seek. In the end I hope to find the common ground that will result in a sale. I do not expect the company to put me through college (though it would be great!) because in the end they didn't say they would, nor did I buy their product expecting a college grant.
The corporate world is like the science industry: the same technology that make the nuclear bomb can be used to end a bloody war, or destroy a city of millions who only want to do their own thing from day to day.
We need to be responsible individual citizens when dealing with the corporate world and if we witness behavior we do not like out of a corporation we need to have the moral fiber to discontinue buying from them and let them know that we will not support them as long as said behavior or policy continues - even if they have the best price, are the highest quality, or the only ones who make a certain item.
Nothing like Jesse Jackson shaking down a business instead of him actually having to find a real job is what he considers to be racist America. Come on Jesse, if you have any skills at all it'd be easy. I'm not at all saying that individuals are not racist, but the American establishment as a whole is not - no matter what he might have us think.
We all recall the moron suing McDonald's because she discovered that coffee was served hot. We've seen the idiotic warning labels on all sorts of items, and we all hear about the new lawsuits all the time.
Why? There has been a growing attempt in the sophisticated left over some decades to vilify anyone or anything that makes money. When communism failed, all the diehards had no place to go, no place to revere, and no example of what they though was a better way. This didn't stop them. It is another example of the Anyone But Bush mentality. It's the Anything But Capitalism mentality. Since the Soviets could not bring McDonalds to its knees, they'll sue them into oblivion.
Another method is the smear tactic. As old as any political campaign, leftist love to kick corporate America around. They coin terms like Corporate Citizenship and then go out to prove that a company like McDonalds really doesn't care about society as much as they do making money.
This actually surprises people on the Left. They seem shocked to discover that after McDonalds sells you a hamburger and you pay for it, they owe you nothing. Sales complete, have a good day. Of course those greedy corporate-types say, "Come again," just to get more of your money.
The left does well to attach Boss Tweed-type names to the corporate world: Big Business, Big Oil, Big Energy, Big Tobacco, Big Guns, Big Pharmaceutical, so forth and so on. They missed two though: Big Government and Big Unions.
This is not to say that it wouldn't be nice to have corporations give freely and help out those who might live in the same neighborhoods who might purchase their products, but some do and some do not. It is the same with individual charity: some people are more inclined than others.
The idea that because some people decide to pay into the triple digits for a pair of shoes that Nike owes the community something is both foolish and childish. To the left all the corporate world looms over society taking from it while giving nothing back.
Many people I know on the right - myself included - do not feel this way. We feel that, as a rules, the corporate world is amoral. It wants money, market share, etc., and for its own survival it must compete to get these things. The product may be $120 shoes, or a new medicine that will help cure a disease, but in the end the corporation is doing it for the bottom line.
This is not to say that making a medicine can not be motivated by a desire to help the world, but the desire to help the world alone will not pay your bills. If you think otherwise please tell the collection agency that you're a nice person and that that you mean well, but you feel it unreasonable that they want money you do not have. If you're an employer tell your employees that you know they like money but to constantly expect a check instead of a pat on the back is capitalist and unacceptable. As an employee how long would you work there?
As a consumer I do expect the best product I can get, and I must match my ability and desire to pay for said object against the quality I seek. In the end I hope to find the common ground that will result in a sale. I do not expect the company to put me through college (though it would be great!) because in the end they didn't say they would, nor did I buy their product expecting a college grant.
The corporate world is like the science industry: the same technology that make the nuclear bomb can be used to end a bloody war, or destroy a city of millions who only want to do their own thing from day to day.
We need to be responsible individual citizens when dealing with the corporate world and if we witness behavior we do not like out of a corporation we need to have the moral fiber to discontinue buying from them and let them know that we will not support them as long as said behavior or policy continues - even if they have the best price, are the highest quality, or the only ones who make a certain item.
posted by Edward W. Prather at 23:22
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