Part 7 – “We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments.”
This part is beyond stupid! First of all corporations exist to make a profit…period! If they weren’t, then they would be non-profit organizations. If you want to see an organization designed to serve people, call the United Way.
Not only are corporations created to earn a profit, but they have a legal obligation to do so on behalf of their shareholders (most of whom are in the magical 99%). If a corporation decides to put people ahead of profit, it could conceivably face civil action for neglecting it’s responsibilities.
So the idiots in Salt Lake City and on Wall Street want to do away with profit and have all corporations be about peace and love and justice? That’s a cute theory, but unfortunately it will put the United States at a decided competitive disadvantage int he world as other countries tell their corporations to do what they were created to do in the first place…innovate and make money!
As for the claim that corporations run our governments, I find the claim frankly laughable! teh simple fact of the matetr is the largest campaign contributors in the last several election cycles have been UNIONS, not corporations…the same unions that are on Wall Street and Pioneer Park today protesting with the kids who wrote this manifesto.
If corporations REALLY ran America, we wouldn’t have the second highest corporate income tax rate in the world. We’d also have a balanced budget, a flat tax, and ObamaCare would never have seent he light of day.
The fact that these kids believe they live in a country where their vote can be bought by Apple or Ford tells me that they weren’t involved enough before these protests to have any right to criticize the political system or the policies passed by our current slate of lawmakers. They’re more likely back-benchers who slept through the last few election cycles and only woke up in time to gather in the park and spew nonsense without any background whatsoever.