Here are a few items for your consideration regarding our very own United States of America:
- A profit-driven health care system that is expensive, ineffecient, yields poor national health results and leaves millions of citizens without health care.
- The price of gas is going through the roof while the oil industry makes records profits, and we’re still addicted to foreign oil imported from unstable and dangerous countries.
- The housing and credit markets are in serious trouble.
- Unlike every other democratized and industrialized nation on the planet, we still don’t have employee vacation time mandated by law.
- Labor unions have been marginalized and demonized.
- There has been a steady decline in the quality of television journalism and entertainment in general.
- The government can now spy on you and they can get look at your phone records without your knowledge.
- Broadband internet speed in the US is much lower than in other countries due to little investment in infrastructure.
- CEO’s make obscene amounts of money even as they lay off workers or move their jobs overseas, and they are allowed to proclaim these as successes for their companies.
- We continue to be bogged down in an expensive, never-ending war.
- Our representatives in the national government are unable or unwilling to solve any of these problems, instead governing to the benefit of big business.
Now tell me honestly, can we not point the finger of blame at Corporate America for this laundry list of national disgraces?