Corporation vs. People

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Martin Saffer Aug 9, 2011 1:48 pm	Corporation vs. People Here is why the gas drilling problem is so dangerous. It is basically corporations versus people. A corporation is a legal person but it is not a person. It has no feelings, no remorse, no empathy, no guilt and does not drink water. It is merely and most succinctly a legal machine of words to create profit. So when a person's water is ruined by a corporation, it does not respond with any sorrowful feelings or accountability on a human scale. No, it calculates "damages" but feels no remorse. It is not your neighbor making a neighborhood and it is most often controlled by nameless faceless people who don't know you and most likely don't care to know you and who live in places far away from Pocahontas County. I often get the feeling that Charleston is like a corporation in this regard. Am I being unfair? Am I telling you that corporations don't buy band uniforms when the going gets tough! If the water is ruined who will suffer? Corporations do not suffer. Corporations do not lose farms, or get sick. Corporations do not have life but their privileges are as great or greater than yours are to protect yourself from their actions. Is all lost? No, but in this the most important issue ever to come down the road, we, as people, must act in accord with our strongest and best spiritual nature because it is we not the corporations that have the most to lose if we make a wrong choice.
JIM Aug 14, 2011 10:05 am	Re: Corporation vs. People Corporations are owned by people, pension funds, state investment, and even other countries and so on. We as a people have created these corporations, we have elected representatives who have made laws that benefit corporations. It is all about the dollar and power. I think the monster has gotten too big to tame. you are right Corporations don't care about the quality of life for others, only the dollar. The question is how do you make these corporate citizens better citizens. One problem is that other countries don't have the regs. that this country does, so these products from other countries present unfair competion. I believe we need to concentrate on developing better methods to protect the environment. We as a nation have become lazy physically as well as mentally.

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Martin Saffer

Aug 9, 2011

1:48 pm

Corporation vs. People

Here is why the gas drilling problem is so dangerous. It is basically corporations versus people. A corporation is a legal person but it is not a person. It has no feelings, no remorse, no empathy, no guilt and does not drink water. It is merely and most succinctly a legal machine of words to create profit. So when a person's water is ruined by a corporation, it does not respond with any sorrowful feelings or accountability on a human scale. No, it calculates "damages" but feels no remorse. It is not your neighbor making a neighborhood and it is most often controlled by nameless faceless people who don't know you and most likely don't care to know you and who live in places far away from Pocahontas County. I often get the feeling that Charleston is like a corporation in this regard. Am I being unfair? Am I telling you that corporations don't buy band uniforms when the going gets tough! If the water is ruined who will suffer? Corporations do not suffer. Corporations do not lose farms, or get sick. Corporations do not have life but their privileges are as great or greater than yours are to protect yourself from their actions.
Is all lost? No, but in this the most important issue ever to come down the road, we, as people, must act in accord with our strongest and best spiritual nature because it is we not the corporations that have the most to lose if we make a wrong choice.

JIM

Aug 14, 2011

10:05 am

Re: Corporation vs. People

Corporations are owned by people, pension funds, state investment, and even other countries and so on. We as a people have created these corporations, we have elected representatives who have made laws that benefit corporations.
It is all about the dollar and power. I think the monster has gotten too big to tame. you are right Corporations don't care about the quality of life for others, only the dollar.
The question is how do you make these corporate citizens better citizens.
One problem is that other countries don't have the regs. that this country does, so these products from other countries present unfair competion.
I believe we need to concentrate on developing better methods to protect the environment.
We as a nation have become lazy physically as well as mentally.

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