Friday, February 6, 2009

MBA Follies #1: The Public as Labor [Or, MBA wet dreams gone bad]

From the PERCHED EYE.
The Blue-Red economic ideolgy clash is easy to sum up. The Blue(DEMS) regard Americans as citizens first without whom the nation is, ipso facto, meaningless. The Reds(GOP) define citizens of whatever nation, but especially so it seems American citizens, as a nameless labor pool to be traded about as pawns on the corporate strategy board (or left idle to fend for themselves, as whim dictates). At best, Red political policies rend to treat American citizens like a miscellaneous account of some kind of imagined mega-corporation. Americans take on favored status, however, when they are needed to fight wars which especially nowadays support or benefit real commercial corporate interests. Reds seem to so invested into corporate lingo they visualize non-Wall Street American people as simply labor that deserve nothing more than what might trickle down from the tables of the Masters of the Universe (MUs). This Red POV has obvious, curious and dangerous fallacies. One, in bad times, unlike with corporate concerns, a nation can't just fire the citizenry and expect them to disappear from view and concern, or, rather, a nation's leaders might contemplate this action if they had no brains. Two, citizenry just can't up and walk to another country, that easily... unless the other country is ...well that's another blog. But given the reality of America, Americans are in no way going to "walk", emigrate,...just try to fire them (us..see what I mean). We'll see who fires who, as happened last November 08 in the election. American history is chock full of legend about citizens' responses to that kind of challenge. What are the Red thinking?

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