Politics Unfiltered

[BGv4.0]

Spyder Wrote:

BGv4.0 Wrote:

TheFonz Wrote:It is up to US to keep the both the government and these corporations is check. We are not victims.

That sounds really good....but the problem with that idea is simple basic greed....

Generally speaking most people are too greedy to do the right thing.....why stand up for the environment and your own town and neighbors when there is a big, fat juicy cash money check waiting for you to simply sit down and STFU?

MOST....not all...but the overwhelming majority will sit down and take the money.

So....the idea of somehow keeping Corporations in check is lost by the fact that they can and will and do buy off the majority.

You can see example after example after example.....Ever see "The Rainmaker"....perfect example.

I mean....no disrespect to him, but Lloyd Mayflower is an example of this....not liking the process, knowing it's a danger to the environment...YET...very open to the idea of being an operator for them.

WHY???....because the guy has to provide for his family and the simple fact of the matter is....they would pay him extreamly well to do the job.

So there is the rub.....you might want to do the right thing all day long...but if money is attached to it...most likely you will take the cash.

The whole region I live in functions on this principle.....we are known as the Cancer Belt of the United States....just about everybody knows somebody dying of cancer at any given time...YET....the jobs are plentyful, we NEVER suffered the recession like most of the US, the home market never faultered to the degree it did everywhere else....so the majority make the trade off without even thinking about it.

I myself have thought about going to get plant jobs....they would pay me 3x what I currently make and just about ALL of my friends are involved in them, and it's mostly a game of who you know to get in....so even I am not above falling for the bait...even though I realize the whole time I'm being fucked.

You used a shitty Matt Damon movie from the 90's to prove your point?



I'm still curious as to how fracking has affected you...

Well, a simpleton might see it that way.

Others might see it as using a John Grisham novel to illustrate an example...

Others may have read the real world examples due to where I live.

I think it comes down to the individual reading it.