Original Link: The Guardian

Oh wait, I was thinking of Genetically Modified foods, maybe General Motors is better? It was once the corner stone of American capitalism and today it is no more.

The carmaker has received $19bn of emergency aid from the treasury to keep it afloat and a further $30bn of government funding is likely to be forthcoming to see it through bankruptcy.

Mr Obama is pledging the huge sums of money to help resurrect it in some form and to maintain the brand GM but the company that powered a lot of American has fallen foul of the most dramatic downturns that Capitalisms has seen to date.

“You will have to make a sacrifice for the next generation so that our children can grow up in an America that still makes things.” – Barack Obama

That doesn’t sound to me like a system that humans really want to buy into. What?! More sacrifices just so we’ve got profit so we’ve got an excuse to make things that humans need?

Wow. It’s not like you and I don’t need cars any more, it’s just that there’s no profit in generating them they way they have been generated. And it’s not like it’s just GM, there is the demise of Chrysler too. Well, okay, they both still exist, but they are in administration and the Gov owns a majority stake in both companies.

In American we, as a species, now have a nationalised car industry.

In return for its support, the Obama administration is likely to get a 60% ownership stake in the company. Canada’s government, which is contributing billions of dollars in further help, will get 12.5% with unions and bondholders holding the rest.

Obama said the massive reorganisation of GM would leave the US government holding 60% of the company’s equity. But it was necessary to preserve an iconic symbol of American business and maintain a viable US auto industry.

Iconic symbol; there you go. If the symbol is a metaphor for the system, then the one that it stood for has just crumbled and has needed to be put on life support.

Mr Obama goes on to say:

“I recognise that this may give some Americans pause,” he said. “We’re making these investments not because I want to spend the American people’s tax dollars but because I want to protect them.”

So that is an admission that the previous way of doing things, the free market, failed. Yet you all sit back and watch as the ruling classes try to put the very institutions back together that crumbled in the first place. They are bailing them out. Does this not show an astonishing lack of creative thinking? Does it not highlight a bankrupt thought process?

The logic is very simple; method A has failed, let us try method A.

You will notice the huge difference this time round though; we, as humans, own the fabric of institutions. Still, their focus, the ruling class, is to re-establish a business in the same mould as the old one. They assume that Method A is the only approach to life on this planet. And I dare say a lot of you will sympathise with them.

To me the very notion just stinks of irrational and illogical thought patterns that an educated flee could work its way around. Don’t let fear or conditioning stand in the way of you demanding a society that is fit for, and focused on, human need.

The State Of Things
Lest we forget, remember the free and open market that was the banking sector and it’s now newly nationalised status too.

Capitalism, as it was in October 2008 is not what is now in June 2009. The whole world has changed as the largest and most central organisations and been necessarily bailed out by central money. Tax payers money. Government money. Your money. Our money.

Thousands of humans will be made redundant; because there’s no more profit in x, y or z.

You will know people that have been laid off. Companies only hire you when they can make profit from you. Yet you need goods all year round.

You need car parts when you’ve bought a car.
You need food all year round.
You need water all year round.

All of these commodities are brought to you by the same mechanism that brought you banking and cars; the open and free market.

A free market that is focused on production of profit, not on human need; we are an after thought in a system that we all support.

A Mantra

Say this over and over, it may help you to preserve your faith in the current state of things:

The chaotic winds blow over me
I’m struggling striving to be free
Have no fear this market is free
So unplanned and good for me

Any time anyone wants one more human to join in as a voice against this current scourge on the planet, just get in touch.

In hope.

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