Thursday, September 13, 2012

The irrationality of elevating business over consumers (#1322)

We all know that the big businesses here in America are mostly responsible for the economic calamity we have experienced over the last four years, yet all programs designed to ameliorate the damage have been aimed at the actual damage causing businesses. It is terrible that the negative effects of the disasterous decisions made by big businesses are being shouldered by the very consumers they are in business to serve. It is as if we live in an alternate universe where those who do bad are rewarded and the innocent are guilty regardless of circumstance. The powers that be in the business community have no shame and it is evident in the dealings before the economic collapse and since then. Big business has received the bulk of the remedy for the ailment they infected on the consumer and are not sharing the remedy with those they have infected. Let me be clear, We gave the offenders a remedy to heal their ailment, and we are not giving ourselves the very same remedy. The theory must go that big business will recoup their standing and act as better service providers in the future thereby being available for positive effects to the customers they service. Yet the customers are not given any remedy to heal from their ailment provided by big business. It is unequal to think that big business should get a remedy for their ailment while the consumer would receive little to none. The consumer who has been hurt needs to be made whole just like the big businesses who created the damage. Yet certain Republican powers that be do not see it that way. When consumers are made whole then we can continue to contribute to the cycle we are an integral part of. That we are not included in the chain of remedy for damage caused by big business is a national shame and can be placed directly at the feet of Republican politicians.

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