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Yes we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood--the cooperative movement shows us how
We're being told by today's High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation. This heavenly institution, the HPCW explain, has such financial and political mass that it is the optimal force for organizing and directing our society's economic affairs, including the terms of employment and production.
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CALIFORNIA'S CORPORATICIANS
The California GOP has chosen two extremely rich women as its candidates for the state's top two political offices.
Meg Whitman, running for governor, and Carly Fiorina, running for U.S. senate, are both former CEOs and multimillionaires who spent truckloads of their corporate loot to win the Republican nominations. Whitman dumped a breathtaking and record-breaking $73 million of her own money into the primary race.
On election night, the two free-spenders issued a joint statement of triumph: "Career politicians in Sacramento and Washington, DC, be warned -- you now face your worst nightmare: two businesswomen from the real world."
The real world? Only a pampered CEO could think that the luxurious confines of the executive suite come anywhere near other people's reality. Aside from private jets and other platinum-level perks, they pocket absolutely unreal paychecks. When she departed Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina was handed a $21 million fare-thee-well gift, and Whitman hauled off more than a billion bucks during her tenure at eBay.
And let's get real about the worthiness of their CEO experience. Fiorina was such an executive disaster that Hewlett-Packard's board dumped her in 2005. Likewise, costly management missteps by Whitman caused eBay's board to conclude that the corporation was simply too big for her to run.
Why should anyone think these dumped CEOs can run a state that is bigger than most countries? A corporation is an autocratic, secretive, topdown, self-serving, single purpose organization--not what democratic government should be.