Fat Cats and You and Me.

This primary season, especially in California, but elsewhere too, it's beginning to prove out that unless you're a multimillionaire or have the strong backing of major corporations, you can forget about winning any election. Especially if you are up against someone who does have the deep pockets. So, what's wrong with that? Well, nothing if you don't mind corporations running the country. That's pretty much why there's a major oil leak disaster in the Gulf. The oil corporations pretty much ran the regulatory system when it came to offshore drilling, and I'm sure, on shore drilling as well. See, when a corporation runs the government, thing run smoothly. That is to say the government gets run right into the ground. By that I mean the corporations make sure the government they run, runs so that they get to do anything they want with little or no consideration of people or property or environment. If it gets in the way of profits, it must be bad, so cut it out. Now, don't get me wrong. I loves the corporations, I surely do. They do provide jobs, they surely do. But mostly they provide money in the pockets of the fat cats. In fact if it comes to a choice, the jobs go before the money for the fat cats. That's just the way it is. Remember, it's the fat cats who bankrole the operation. So, if they can't make any money on a project, they ain't gonna do it. And I don't blame them. The thing is, we need an independant government to stand between us and the fat cats to protect us. But when we turn the government over to the fat cats, where's the protection in that?