OUT OF CONTROL CORPORATIONS

The Keystone Pipeline XL controversy is a very confusing thing to understand. I see pictures on TV of a huge pipeline running toward the horizon at the same time I hear the words “proposed pipe line”. The pipeline runs from Canada to a place called Cushing, Oklahoma. From there, the proposed is to extend the pipe to the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, there is a proposal to duplicate and already existing pipeline. What I find remarkable is that these existing pipelines were build without controversy and will continue to be built regard less of what you say, think, or believe. Corporations are in charge and you have no way to fight back.  

Elected representatives created the United States Department of Commerce to deal with the interaction of corporate America with the people based on a 1901 proposal made my Teddy Roosevelt. His objective was to create a comprehensive and far-reaching scheme to oversee our business interests. Corporate greed was running out of control then and is happening again 110 years later.

Corporations control in order to increase federal regulation on businesses requires the collection of a massive amount of detailed economic information. The relatively recent Enron debacle proved that it was not possible for the government to do this on such massive companies as the energy companies, insurance companies, and financial companies. Of course, corporations objected to “government interference” in what they consider their private business. Thus, they work through elected representatives to dismantle the Department of Commerce by defunding regulation, through the advice and consent clause in the constitution; they delay appointment of leaders for that department, and they pass laws to restrict its operation, etc. A near fatal blow to the Department of Commerce was made by the corrupt Supreme Court of the Untied States when they made the now infamous  “Citizens United Decision”, essential giving  corporations the power  over politicians; hence, control  over corporate excesses, which brings us back to where Roosevelt started; once again corporations are running amuck.  

If the citizens of the country had the power to control corporations, do you think there would have been an Enron engineered recall of California Governor Gray Davis? What do you think would have happened to BP after the gulf oil spill? What would be the price of gasoline? More to the point, do you think there would have been oil pipe lines carrying Canadian tar sands oil across 2,000 miles of agricultural lands to be refined in Texas and the final product shipped to China  leaving all the air pollution the United States and placing the money in the Cayman island. Did I mention that “their” Congress approved paying taxpayers’ dollars to oil companies as a subsidy even though 80% of Americans did not want that to happen?  

By the way, the elected representatives “Americans” voted into office, that is the politicians who voted for the oil subsidies, are the very ones that more importantly oppose gay marriage, or hate abortion, or prove their worth by watching Duck Dynasty, or will not let Obama take your gun, or will let him lock you in a FEMA controlled concentration camp; the stuff of very expensive TV and radio ads I hear ten time a day.

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