Corporate contributions have no place in politics. Money SHOULD NOT influence decisions made by politicians, obviously it is the opposite in reality...Except now it is legal..Hilarious.. Just when I was "beginning" to have faith in the future of my country this happens.
Last April my parents dropped our satellite tv service for two reasons. The service sucked and to teach myself and my sister about priorities. There are more important things to spend our money on then dishing out $89 to pay for TV. Right now excluding watching the news on TV, I really only watch 5-8 hour of TV per week. I don't miss it. If free antenna TV were to be taken away then good riddens, I don't need it. I can pick up a newspaper or read a book. I can go on my computer and look up endless and more useful things then just staring at a TV. So go ahead, take away free antenna TV. The new DTV sucks too and I don't like the service.
And just where does the calculation of what is "merited" derived from? What science, what method?
As a business owner and executive, you'd be a person wholly invested in demeaning a person's "merited" skill-to-pay ratio to the barest minimum you can get away with, preferably nil. A person's skill to earnings ratio is foremost according to their needs, which is a living wage. That is calculated as the cost of living plus 35% at the minimum. The wholly fictitious "poverty line" pegged at $10,000 per year is one of the driving factors behind the perpetuation of poverty, dependence, and social disintegration; the imaginary notion that individuals on the welfare margin are somehow not "worth" being paid the requisite amount to mitigate, escape, and replace dependency on welfare benefits, of which there are many, as you put it, is wholly ideologically based. There is no way of measuring "worth" nor "merit."
Social cohesion, that is: health access, pharmaceuticals cost assistance, transport, assistance in paying heating and electricity, food are but some of the core basic requirements to function for a single individual. Multiply that by dependent children as well as dependent spouses, who may themselves be unemployed, or ill, or in school for training, as for example, and the paltry "merit" notion of what marginal people's earning scale is putatively based upon becomes not only self-indulgent fiction on the employer's part but wholesale piracy and wage slavery in and of itself. If you want to own a business for yourself, then do so and do all the work yourself; then you earned and own every penny. The minute you enlist help and assistance, you relinquish by definition "self" ownership; you are responsible to your stake-holders first: your employees. Without their work, you sink. No one comes out alive floating on their own raft.
Your outlook here is "there is no disease that cannot be cured, only people who can't be cured." That's sick.
Well, here's an idea of mine that it may not be too soon to repeat. I think that when it's pledge drive time, NPR and PBS both should be required to inform the audience they're hitting up how much they'd need to raise not to have to take anything from corporations or corporate fronts, then cut back the commercials pro-rata depending on how much the public contributes. Maybe we could at least get rid of the Chevron commercial at the start of the NewsHour. Just a thought.
Corporate contributions have no place in politics. Money SHOULD NOT influence decisions made by politicians, obviously it is the opposite in reality...Except now it is legal..Hilarious.. Just when I was "beginning" to have faith in the future of my country this happens.
I think that's a great idea! It's so disconcerting to hear so many of the plugs and also to see that creeping slant at the public stations.
Last April my parents dropped our satellite tv service for two reasons. The service sucked and to teach myself and my sister about priorities. There are more important things to spend our money on then dishing out $89 to pay for TV. Right now excluding watching the news on TV, I really only watch 5-8 hour of TV per week. I don't miss it. If free antenna TV were to be taken away then good riddens, I don't need it. I can pick up a newspaper or read a book. I can go on my computer and look up endless and more useful things then just staring at a TV. So go ahead, take away free antenna TV. The new DTV sucks too and I don't like the service.
Anna
Well, here's an idea of mine that it may not be too soon to repeat. I think that when it's pledge drive time, NPR and PBS both should be required to inform the audience they're hitting up how much they'd need to raise not to have to take anything from corporations or corporate fronts, then cut back the commercials pro-rata depending on how much the public contributes. Maybe we could at least get rid of the Chevron commercial at the start of the NewsHour. Just a thought.
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