A Broken Economy or Corporate Greed?

I've been listening to the reports - that this or that industry is "too big" to fail. Well, I think that if 3 companies are the only players in that industry, then there is a wonderful opportunity to tear it apart.

We have "anti-trust" laws in this country. If something is too big to fail, then it needs to be broken down to smaller bits - so that if one part fails it doesn't take the entire industry with it. This means that the auto industries need to be broken down to smaller bits.

Parts, that can be used for autos, planes, trains, and your lawnmower, should all be made by the same companies - maybe 5 or 6 companies. These parts houses will NOT make body parts, design cars or engines or what not.

Body design and styling can be done by a fashion house. The same folks who design our clothing. The colors can be made by the same folks that make our housepaint instead of some specialized company division at the big-three.

Now, the design work. That can be farmed out to the same folks who mess with your e-mail skin. Those over-paid, under-worked programmers that are hired at Microsoft. They have nothing better to do than mess with the e-mail program, so give them a real job in an entirely new industry! I bet those propeller-heads can come up with some really green car engines, that spit out water or oxygen as a by-product instead of CO2.

How's that for a jobs project? Put folks to work in industries that are home-grown. NO export of jobs allowed. If a company employs the bulk of it's people outside the USA, it can't take advantage of our tax breaks, banking laws or own property.

Corporations are much too big in this country. The laws that were designed to protect people are instead protecting the corporation against the people. When corporations were given "individual" status, it broke our country.

Now as for Corporate Greed -
Corporations are constantly trying to get laws passed that favor their industry - whether it is for tax breaks, environmental issues, or protecting it's profits and patents. I have no problem with protecting patents - but unless a "corporation" developed it, the patent belongs to the human being who had the AHA moment. Not a business.

Intellectual property is all well and good, but people are what makes this country, not companies. If there were not people working at those companies, there would be NO companies.

CEOs and other officers should be paid commensurate with their experience and expertise. If the guy can't route the mail in the building, he shouldn't be paid more than the mailroom clerk until he can. Bonuses and stock options?? PuhLeez! NO and NO! A Christmas bonus if there is a profit, and if the profit is 20%, then only 20% of the guy's monthly salary. Hey - that's all they give us, so that's all they get!

This is not tearing down the good guys. This is not re-distributing the wealth from rich to poor. It's making the rich guy carry his weight, not just the checkbook.