Now that it's official that we live in a corporatocracy, let's make the needed changes

[zulchzulu]

SCOTUS pretty much let the cat out of the bag in regards to assuming that corporate entities can buy Senators and Congress people today. Some of us were suspicious of the obvious, but it is now in plain sight.

So, what do we do?

Here are some ideas.

From now on, elections are generally to be treated as polls or sports games. Surely, one side wins or gets the most votes and has bragging rights. Kind of like the winner of American Idol. You, the winner, get some kind of prize or something. Nothing actually allows you to make any gains in legislation or law-making. That's to be explained later.

Consider winning an election like winning a popularity contest in junior high. You get a parade, a watch and maybe even a date with a movie star.

But you have no power.

That's for the new seats of power. Essentially, every corporate entity (we're talking the Big Guys here) gets a seat in the House or Senate. So, for example, the Senator from General Electric would have one seat. The Senator from Raytheon would get a seat. And since some multi-national entities have many subsidiary corporate interests under their portfolio umbrella, getting 100 corporate senators should be no problem.

The same application of said corporate appointments to Congress would work under the same template.

Now here's the really cool part.

Depending on what corporate interest a Corporate Senator represents, the amount of "votes" would be much like currency values. So Senator Mitch O'Fuggoff (GE) would have a rolling value based on a combined value of stock market share prices and monetary values based on "expense control" layoffs (the more, the higher value), global outsourcing, offshore job locations, junk bond profits and derivatives-based income, all obviously run in a unshackled free market.

Senator Mitch O'Fuggoff (GE) could have a "vote value" of 12 as opposed to a lesser valued Corporate Senator.

In conclusion, let's get rid of elections as an optimistic democratic tool. Have elections merely for people to get together and chat about the doggone good old days of yesteryear when they thought their vote actually counted.





:sarcasm:

[puebloknot]

1. Let's choose the "Corporation of the Month" and buy absolutely nothing ...

... they manufacture or offer. I remember when hardly anyone used paper towels because they were considered too expensive. There are many things we can live without.

If we starve out the corporations, they won't have anything to contribute to unethical politicians.

It's late. I'm dreaming. And I'm writing this one down in my dream journal!

[Grinchie]

2. That's a wonderful idea. I hardly consume anything anymore

I have found that a nice machete does the job of Weedeater, Axe, Chainsaw, Loppers, Shovel, Knife, etc. Not only that, I can sharpen it to a razors edge, and it doesnt take fuel, cause air ot noise pollution, and starts instantly with a swing of the arm -- no pull starter needed. I don't need eye protection, ear protection, or a 3M dust mask or face shield. My clothes stay cleaner, and without the chaperons I don't sweat as much. I can reach over my head with it and not risk cutting my head off. I can clean acres of land and kill or main less than one percent of the insects, lizards and earthworms that would be otherwise destroyed by a weedeater.

I can hear the birds singing while I work, breathe nothing but fresh air, and I can hear falling branches in the forest.

Heres the funny part. There are no moving parts, and it is less laborious that toting a bruscutter around, along with the fuel and tools necessary to operate it.

My hands no longer suffer from Reynauds syndrome, and I'm healthier and happier for trying to use just a machete after Echo tried to gouge me for a simple repair.

And let me tell you that I manage a very large tract of land, and I will never go back to the "Modern" way of cutting grass. The "Old" way is much easier on the body and the wallet.

I am the Corporations worst nightmare, simply because I refuse to by their expensive the poorly designed crap anymore. All my tools are nearly 20 years old at a minimum, and I bought them because they feel right, are designed with the human body in mind instead of the latest fasion inherited from Nike shoe designs, and they are easily maintained, rugged as a hammers, easily sharpened, and will outlive me and be just as useful to my kids.

I feel sorry for the Kids that sold their Grandfathers tools to me for pennies per pound, but I have no sympathy for idiots like that. I feel their Grandfathers honest labor in the older tools. Man if you will.

[zulchzulu]

3. lol n/t

[puebloknot]

4. Will you marry me?

You seem to have a real appreciation for things that are -- ahem -- seasoned!