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Does protecting the environment have to hurt the economy?

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Yes
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Yes

by Joseph Malek

Created on: March 23, 2008   Last Updated: August 12, 2008

It is true that the pollution laws and regulations within the United States of America have caused the loss of millions of the jobs of the majority of, "We People of the United States of America." As a matter of fact, the only industries that continue to be profitable are the mining industry and those manufacturers who produce the weapons of war.

Because so many manufacturing jobs were lost, and continue to be lost to foreigners within Foreign Countries, the majority of "We People" within the United States of America are going deeper into debt with each passing minute. Our standard of living also declines with each passing minute, with no end to the decline in sight.

The number of bank filures is rising and more and more people are in the process of losing their homes. "Green Friendly" ways of energy production have yet to be built and used on a large scale for the people and the environment, while billions of barrels of oil under already sold Government off-shore leases within the Gulf of Mexico remain untapped in favor of more convenient oil deposits just off-shore of the State of Florida.

President Bush's speeches about how we should drill those convenient locations within the Gulf of Mexico sound more like a threats than sound solutions to our energy shortage. As a matter of fact, the construction of more refineries would more certainly reduce the price of motor fuels.

With the help of the elected Politicians within the Federal and State Governments of the United States of America, the owners and the controllers of those huge multinational corporations truly are destroying the economy of the United States of America. So too, they are destroying the economic well being of those who aren't included within the group of the richest people on Earth.

Something is clearly wrong somewhere, when the people who we trust to maintain the health and well being of every citizen of the United States of America fail to take responsible action to prevent what could be the worst economic depression in recorded history. Our Country's balance of payments deficit is at a record high level and also continues to go higher with each passing minute.

A record number of people have lost or will lose their home. As a matter of fact, people are going into debt as a result of just trying to stay healthy and alive within an economy whose rate of inflation has already increased as much as 300%, just for gasoline, natural gas and heating oil. That figure is still rising, with no end in sight for those who are about to drown in a sea of debt.

Worse yet, the price of food and those other life essentail commodies is also rising faster than a kite in a hurricane because they require fossil fuel energy in order to reach the marketplace before they spoil. If you haven't noticed, the prices of other kinds of tangible personal property is also rising, while the value of our homes is dropping faster than a stone cast into the sea. As a matter of fact, home values have already lost 25% of their value in just six months.

You better believe that there will also be a record number of homeless people living on the streets of our once great Nation. Hundreds of those people will die from exposure and/or starvation, due to the conduct of the greediest people on Earth and the "Yes People" who they banked-rolled into the offices of our grand and glorious Government Buildings of the United States of America. Who will you vote for in 2008? More Importamt, who will you vote out of Public Office in 2008?

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No

by The Real American

Created on: June 01, 2010   Last Updated: June 02, 2010

Although protecting the environment doesn't have to negatively impact the world's economy, our modern Corporate-Fascist Economic Model virtually guarantees that singularly inevitable result. The numerous flaws inherent in such a Politico-Economic System are: obvious, clearly defined, and readily understood by millions of politicians, economists, and academics worldwide.

Moreover, the only ones largely unaware - of these blatantly apparent shortcomings - are the average voting citizen and consumer. Nor, is this societal lack of generalized awareness a mere accidental coincidence.

As amazing as it may sound, The Modern Corporation wasn't created with the primary purpose of generating profits in mind. Were that the case, the private companies would still be the dominating structures operating within our world markets.

There is absolutely nothing to make a corporation more: efficient, flexible, competitive, or dynamic in an evolutionary Free Market! In fact, the exact opposite is verifiably true. Modern Corporations are: inefficient, ungainly, lumbering, and dysfunctional in almost every conceivable way.

In contrast, the most efficient form of business is [actually] a Sole Proprietorship. One man sitting at the top of his own hand picked organization with total: authority, responsibility, and effective control can: quickly evaluate his options, formulate more efficient strategies, and enter [or exit] the markets at his own leisure. Even today, there are still many of these highly successful and personally enriching enterprises around.

If the primary function of The Modern Corporation isn't for generating profits, then what is it? And yet, in order to understand the answer to that question, we must first understand [precisely] what a corporation is.

A corporation is an artificially created economic construction designed for the purposes of avoiding: accountability, liability, and responsibility toward all other aspects of our humanly governed societies.

In essence, they were designed to operate outside of [or externally to] all social: boundaries, conventions, rules, or even human conscience. By definition, they are invariably psychotic entities - which may do as they please under ordinary and day to day circumstances.

The method by which they accomplish this, is to obtain a legal [or political] charter from a State, which allows for the creation of artificial human beings. That document, or charter, is called" "A Letter Of Incorporation." Once that letter is given, a new entity has been deemed to be physically born.

At that moment, three other entities come into being as well: the stockholders [or physical owners], the board of directors [or corporate overseers], and the management [or actual executive leadership]. This accomplishment is Key and very important to the overall process.

The Stockholders [or owners] have now been divorced from all of their authorities and responsibilities over this new enterprise; and are no longer legally liable for any of its inherently psychotic actions.

The Board Of Directors have no direct control over day to day operations and may claim or maintain a plausible deniability for all actions. Meanwhile, The Executive Management has no long-term vested interest to anyone other than achieving an officially designated margin of profit.

If “The Modern Corporate System” is devoid of any relevant societal restrictions upon its overall operations and/or activities, then the next question we must ask is: “To what useful purpose, could such a system be factually utilized?”

To operate outside of all other humanly devised systems of: social, financial, economic, political, military, and theocratic control – for the purpose of extensively crashing and resetting all of these numerous control systems!

Yes, folks, The Corporations were created to destroy all of the pre-existing political and social control structures and create an economic bridge into a new one – under an elite oligarchical class of new world rulers.

The “New World Order System” won’t be created by a bang, but rather by an economically oppressed world - whimpering for their share of its [now] jointly held resources. He who ultimately controls the Earth’s resources, ultimately controls the Earth as well!

Want our jobs, then do what we say… desire our energy, then get with our plan… need our food, then pay our real prices. Meanwhile, that price is: subjugation, obedience, order, and silence – to whatever we: do, say, or [extensively and egregiously] demand.

Consequently, the environment has now become the least of our necessary concerns – under a now Globalized Corporate System. Whereas, under a Sole-Proprietorship and Truly Capitalist System, we would have maintained all of our highly-useful societal controls.

After all, we would still have maintained someone to ultimately hold accountable – under our man made laws. Nor, could those short-lived economic entities have completely outgrown our own political control structures.

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