“Common Sense”
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May the market bless you and keep you.
Common sense stifles innovation in America. A set of notions, a set of ideas, a set of morals, an interrelated clarity that many humans share, common sense is not shared by synthetic entities that exist for their own growth. Common sense also says egotism, synthetic or otherwise, must not control a population. So we ask, does it make any sense, common or otherwise, to stifle corporate growth? We think not. Synthetic entities like corporations have fostered corruption in the first world like no other. Novelty is part of their heritage and there is little that we do now that functions properly. Why strangle the success of innovative corruption with common sense?
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Who defines common sense? We proclaim the definers to be educated persons, statespersons, philosophers, moralists, scientists, an elite, and so we ask, “How does common sense support the freedom to explore avenues of greed, innovate the ways of extortion, or develop economic terrorism? Doesn’t the very nature of common sense declare certain ideas like selfishness, graft, corruption, extortion, and deceit as primitive, stupid, immoral, or self-defeating for a society? Doesn’t common sense deliver the smack of societal control back to the hand of its citizens?”
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Common sense is also the agreement among individuals and groups–so we must consider the possibility of unbridled opinions by the masses. Common sense says the citizens of this country can handle freedom. Could it be clearer that common sense also means certain options might therefore never get wind from pundits on the radio, shills on television, paid bloggers on the net, or dim-witted researchers in think tanks–because vapid viewpoints would be laughed at? Lobbyists would have no crutch for their insipid posture in the halls of government because corrupted politicians would lose their plausible deniability. Consider the bribery our politicians and their owners hold so dear. Do you think that kind of corruption could continue in the face of common sense? Common sense will keep us from adding new options for sleaze. Critical thought might bloom, even among elected officials.
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Truth is, common sense is again beginning to take hold in the United States of America. Common sense says our markets are controlled by monopolies seeking to use their power to hobble our nation’s ability to free up those same markets. That today the free market is a myth, blather spouted by a corrupted system that seeks to maintain itself in the face of truth. That when fuel prices, airline prices, food prices, and other consumer prices fluctuate in concert with each other–because they are openly discussed by competing corporate entities–that this is not a free market, but rather market manipulation. Markets continue to be reevaluated through the lens of common sense. Cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, bank bailouts, unregulated hedge funds, corporate bailouts, the poisoned Gulf, pump and dump IPOs, fossil fuels, the Northern passage, the rape of ocean resources, and the other achievements of the corrupted markets have scrutiny these days. Can you see how common sense might provoke the masses to rally against intra-corporate cooperation? Common sense says markets are merely tools for a society, not the society. Common sense has no place in the world we have built.
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Our corrupted markets were developed through perseverance, propaganda, and economic extortion of the middle class. A lack of sense has declared monopolies good, oversight bad, public institutions flawed–unless they provide funds for bailout–and that the corruption of our political system is the supreme evil (only when isolated from corporate greed). Do any of the aforesaid achievements fit into a framework of common sense? Of course not.
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Common sense now declares that raising taxes will increase revenues. Common sense states this has been laid bare by the economic disaster that has been fueled by lower taxes and deficit spending. That absurd tax rates have destroyed society’s core while developing a myopic oligarchy. Common sense also says that regulation leads to responsible decisions by corporations because it fuels an oversight with teeth. Common sense asserts that a ninety-five per cent chance of disaster means heed the disaster and change course. Common sense shouts that organizations too big to fail should propped up until they can be disassembled so that their problems do not reoccur. To be clear, we think common sense is regulation by the population, restraint of trade, and an attempt to dismantle what has been built over the last thirty-two years.
May the market bless you and keep you. Amen.
— So what can you do? —
Look for signs of common sense in your stockholders, your employees, on the street, in your supply chain, and vet them. They view their world in the following ways.
- Common sense is a shared vision that defines our society’s responses to be those of a moral, unified society, a civilized society, where polarization and strife are mitigated through cooperation and understanding is the goal.
- Common sense promotes the general welfare, secures resources for the common good, allows freedom and liberty to rule the nation, rather than the international markets. (T. Paine, et al.)
- Common sense says we are not addressing our country’s financial problems due to the blocking activities by special interests inside and outside our nation.
- Common sense points out the corruption in politics: Politicians take money from interests called lobbyists and PACs so the politicians will promote private interests over the interests of the citizens of this nation. That is corruption–or so says common sense.
- Common sense says we must regain our freedom of choice in deciding the makeup of our governmental leadership. (T. Paine, et al.)
- Common sense regulates avarice.
- Common sense may limit corporate growth.
- Common sense has priorities other than the market.
- Common sense says we should all stop staring at our assets.
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