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Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama: Globalization and the Downsizing of the American Dream

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This book should be valued reading to anyone who is concerned with the future of the working poor, the environment, or your own freedoms. Danaher puts together great writings from some of the most respected names in the subject. This book is simple enough for your 14 year old and interesting enough to cause any rational thinking and compassionate adult to stand up and do something about the oppression and destruction caused by big business.

If you think that corporations are inocuous organizations with the public's best interest at heart- think again! This book is a very good introduction to the perfidy of the global economy. Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Momma is a collection of short essays from the most articulate critics of the global economy and it will open your eyes to what many of our leaders are really up to.

Don't be fooled by the comical cover and title of the book. This collection of writings is a serious call to action.

Rather than repeat the kudos already submitted, I'd like to address the primary cause for runaway globalism. I'm old enough to remember when the American public had far more wealth and power, back in the late 40's through the early 70's, because we were a manufacturing society, a wealth-creating creditor to the nations, a nation that was self-sufficient and we had an elderly generation that could remember the Robber Barons. This book addresses the retaliation of an elite against America. An American people able to fight back against Vietnam and social engineering being rammed down our throats during the 60's. CEO's demanded that Washington do something to bust the unions that were robbing them of "opportunity costs". Earl Warren called for political economists to find a way to neuter the rebellious middle class. Nixon and Kissinger went to Red China to find out how the hell you keep over one billion people busy and servile.

They came back and began the systematic bleeding of America began; starting with Kissenger's go-ahead signal to OPEC. Ever since then, the powerful middle class has been raped and pounded into utter submission and servility. We have sacrificed millions of good jobs to the blamphemous, sophomoric lie of Comparative Advantage. That lie from Hell used to convert a self-contained American economy into a one-trick pony that only a tiny few can profit from. The rest of us have fallen into that hell prepared for the middle class: the massive service sector and all the menial, frivolous jobs you can work to make ends meet. Our elites partly replaced our lost earning power with plastic shackles: credit cards. The security of the American home has been second mortgaged to the limit, again to make up for lack of decent or dignified work. All the while, our manic-depressive, psychopathic, megalomanic corporate elites are laughing all the way to the off-shore bank.

Thirty years of looting, bleeding, and Balkanizing have accelerated social entropy to the point of no return. The only way to keep the libertinism of the masses under control is to restore FEUDAL political and social institutions. Feudalism hasn't been seen in centuries but it's coming. Those wild, out of control, multinational corporations will be our new Kings and Lords. Governments, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed, will be reduced to global civil servants of Global corporations. By law, corporations ARE persons and Global corporations will be the only true "citizens of the world".

No more will the little people EVER dare to fight back! By design, wealth accumulation will be impossible as national economies have been structured to prevent labor from ever having value. There will be an Inner cabal of wealthy Mandarins in every field but they can be replaced without harm to the system if they ever forget who pays their rare middle class pay. There will be a royal caste made up of today's highest CEO's and political figures. They sit on each other's boards, travel, conduct business, and do whatever else without ever having to interact with the massive underclass, struggling to eke out a living as cashiers, dog washers, waiters, convenience store clerks, pizza delivery, telemarketers, title pawn shop clerks, fast food slaves, etc. etc. etc!

What we are seeing is only the end result of plans made over 35 years ago.

While I agree with the basic premise of the book, that corporations are exerting an obscene amount of control in world politics, I wouldn't reccomend reading this book. The author will cite a statistic, or a story, and will give no formal indication of where that quote comes from. The book is mostly just repetitive leftist polemics and rhetoric, and while I am pretty leftist myself, I try to avoid this kind of literature on either side of the fence.

Books like this should contain documentation, look for a bibliography, look for footnotes when you buy such a book.

With contributions from Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, David Korten, Jeremy Rifkin and a host of other equally seminal thinkers, "Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama" reveals how the corporate economy is subverting democracy (or its remnants), polluting the environment and creating criminal chaos all under the guise of free-market "freedom".

Far from being all doom and gloom, the salient contributors to "Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama" have outlined strategies to create democratic, egalitarian control of everyone's economic resources.

Kevin Danaher has pulled together a brilliant collection of essays on globalization and corporations-run-amok that makes for a fascinating, insightful, and broad overview of the situation from several different perspectives. Because there's no one author but, instead, 23 authors of 23 different standalone essays, you'll find notes, footnotes, and endnotes within the chapters themselves. Some of the best authors in this field, including Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, David Korten, and Jerry Mander are represented in this book. Although this book doesn't get into politics at all but limits itself to corporate misdeeds and structural problems that allow for same, it does offer in some chapters solutions to these problems that would warm the heart of any truly concerned politician from Barry Goldwater to Ted Kennedy. As you actually read this book, you discover it's not a left-right discussion, but a human-corporate one. Fascinating reading!

It revealed how some sectors of society are well off. I realize that business ruin themselves from the top down.