“Just as the federal government spent trillions building the US interstate system, we have also spent trillions establishing a quasi-national political religion of socialism, feminism, pacifism, environmentalism, social justice, organic/free trade, etc. And just as corporations take advantage of the US interstate system to transport and sell their goods, they are also taking advantage of that political infrastructure the Millennials have been programmed with. And so instead of selling you on the merits of a product like its price or its quality, Corporate America instead panders to the identity politics/religion you’ve been programmed to have because it gives you false value.“
Race has no value but we lose our civ as the race changes. Purely coincidence
Actually we are not all created equal.
Well seems to me the very best solution is Zero Base Budgeting for all Government Departments. Half way through each year the budget is set for the next year.
Salaries are established across the Department or probably fairer is across the Municipal Employment. Each position starting at the top; e.g. the C.A.O. — That is the Chief Administartion Officer which is now used as the Position with total responsibility for successful maintenance of the community. Sometimes even if the smallest towns. Formerly Clerk of City, Community, Village etc. — You get my point. —
Why are the Police Budgets the only Department to be penalized for the Failures of the– Usual Long Time Democrat Crony Crowd– to establish and maintain a Viable Social Contract? ___ After all it is with the use of the money taken from Ordinary Average Person’s Pockets to provide a Viable Social Contract.
___ What’s that You say?___ because someone you know or a Family member works for the Municipality telles You; ‘ money flows in from all levels of Government; The County; The State; Washington D.C.’ — therefore it isn’t just taken from the Pockets of the Residents.
Well from what pocket is it taken? The Ordinary Average Person now moving from “California Dreaming” because paying for ‘pooper scoopers’ does fit into the Ordinary Average Person in California as a necessary Viable Social Contract expense for Paying Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to the C.A.O. every year. — Providing appropriate Municipal Facilities to keep the S*** H*** aspect of living in healthy communities has been a standard expectation of Western Culture for Thousands of years.
Should the Ordinary Average Citizens of Bangor, Maine have money taken from Their Pockets to pay for ‘ Pooper Scooper(s) ‘ in San Francisco? ___ Seems like the Extraordinary Preferred Person’s of San Francisco should be paying for Their level of Excrememt Removal. __ After all –every community understands S*** Happens. — It is not taking responsibility for Viable Social Contracts to not have the S*** laying around San Francisco streets which is the lack of conscientious involvement of the Citizens of San Francisco.
But; it is the Person’s we allow to escape from the S*** H**** around the World which are laying their Excrement On To Our Streets. Sooo? should the Ordinary Average Persons of Bangor, Maine OR Tulsa Oklahoma be assuming the cost(s) created by the Incompentcy of San Francisco’s Chief Administrative Officer?
Seems to me the Viable Social Contract requires an understanding of the availabile Pockets to take money from before any spending is budgeted. Naturally, as it has been in Western Culture for Thousands of Years ________ second only to provide a system of allowing food be readily available for the Ordinary Average Person living in A community alongside Shelter from the Weather; ____ removal of the residue for a system of food availability is required to not have a City such as San Francisco to become the S*** H*** that People are escaping from.
Therefore this hopefully brings a mutual understanding of the problem;__ 1). Inept Municipal Administration: regardless of the population size.
2). Indifference to where there is a source of Tax Revenue as long as there is sufficient money to Pay the Top Levels of the Salaried Persons.
3). General acceptance of the “Broken Window & Jay Walking” disrespect by the Ordinary Average Person resident — because everyone in the Municipal — parasite class clutches the Tax-Payer Pocket’s money.
Solution?
a). — Establish a competent Administration which values American Individual Self-Reliance as the Faucet funding source.
b). — Recognize the Municipality must have a solid understanding of the next Year’s Faucet funding source. e.g.– a Fixed % of all Revenue earned by a Tax – Source – Ordinary Average Resident Citizen: __ Resident Business expecting or using any Municipal Services & cognizant the existance of the Services is part and parcel of supporting the Municipal Ordinary Average Resident Citizen as a Tax-Source in support of the Self Reliance — Buy – In.
c). — Finally !! Establish a completely tranparent Use of Taxes with every entry of a Debit or Credit will be available as a ‘Streaming Record of Money IN & Money Out.” __ There will be no Private Payroll Accounts __ All donations from Any Entity – Charitable – Royalty – Political et al will also become Part of the OBVIOUS capability to meet electrionic Daily – Hourly – Minute – Communication presently displayed by the Self-Reliant attitude of American Business.
IF NOT? be prepared to respond with the Optimisim of the Technical Advances of the –Greatest Generation’s — recognition The “WE THE PEOPLE …” Constitution is the greatest – Step Forward in the Evolution of –Soveren Ordinary Average Person- in Eight Hundred Years; The United States Constitution is the BASE for America moving forward The ________ The “Great Experiment” _______ through example and Building the Nation’s Wealth; — created by : S.O.A.P. ‘s –Greatest Generation’s — willing sacrifice to finish Off the Monarchial Aspirations of All Collectives trying to move through the Planned & Maintained ignorance of NOT – sovereign. Ordinary Average Persons — BUT; as shown with Not – sovereign. Ordinary Average Persons murdered IN HUNDREDS of MILLIONS before and During World War TWO by the Fascist; Communist; Islamist.
Once again; disregarding the Human Rights & Self Reliance Responsibilities Of The Individual ___ Through the embedded Wealth of subterranean Aristocratic self -interest and Fear of losing Privilege of the Europen Union unaccoutable Bureacracy as the Incipient Monarchy using the Tax-Payer Funding of planned and maintained ignorance to Promote – the “One World” Lie(s).
This is NOT compassion! It is repression and cruelty to Ordinary Average Persons. Reality must be based on Enlightenment through Education. Proper awakening – not the Dogama of Self-Serving Crass Class Louts inbedded as the Willing Tools & Fools to create the S*** H**** of [Theocracy-Privelged] [Communism-Privelged] [Fascism Privileged] [Corporation -Privleged] [S*** H***- Dictatorship – Privileged] Sleaze of the World
Hey Michael, I 100% agree with your first paragraph. Zero based budgeting. Our city council hides behind their ridiculous budgetary approach. They avoid accountability and actual decisions by failing in their one core job, Responsible fiscal management. They do that in their own self interest, not in the public’s interest.
+ marks for paragraphs, – marks for the off-topic screed and rambling style. You really need your own blog.
As I sit here typing this with my fingertips on my wonderful iPad … I throw up a little in my mouth when I read this …
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/13/whats-richard-windsor-up-to-now/
Lisa Jackson, err Richard Windsor … has been “paid off” for her SJW’ism by Apple. First, she doled-out $Bond money to leftists and their worthless non-profitable, non-commercial “renewable energy” rubbish … Now … as a “black” woman with all the looks and privileges of a white woman … she is going to ensure Apple avoids any assaults by Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.
Yes, this is useless and counterproductive. It has no value.
Apple environmental director Lisa Jackson is pegged to lead the company’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, CEO Tim Cook announced on Twitter Thursday. Apple launched the $100 million initiative promoting racial equality for “communities of color” in “education, equality, and criminal justice reform.”
Are you sure this will help us sell more hamburgers?
The only value Apple has is access to the USA Market…They sold, or gave away, all their Technology to China… The Apple Marketing is a store front….It would seem reasonable that buying a China clone for $49 will not end well for Apple….They are a Bullshit Company pushing worthless paper in the stock market…
JMHO
Now the Captain is a fine wordsmith,but I have heard that sentiment summed up for years,as this;”How’s your work”?
Preening yourself over inherited traits is at best self abuse.
At worst this is where our “Exteme..ists” come form.
What is truly sad,most of these miserable people will never understand the life pleasures of mastering a skill,growing a crop,building a thing that stands,loving.Living.
Misery loves company,join the NDP/Liberal Party.
And oh yeah,corporate minions will use anything to sell you their junk.
Especially your self delusion.
I don’t go to many movies, so when I go to spend my hard-earned dollars I want to make sure it’s worth it. Few years ago when Black Panther came out I tried looking up movie reviews to see if it was a good movie.
Unfortunately, all I could get out of the reviews was that it was a good movie because it had lots of black people in it. Yes, that’s nice, but is it well-written, will I enjoy it?
Every.
Single.
Review.
None of them mentioned the plot or writing or characters except to mention how ‘black’ it was, as if that was the main criteria for going to see a movie.
So I never went to see it. My kids all did and told me it was ‘meh, ok’ so I’m glad I didn’t waste my money, but why is skin colour the basis to see a movie? I didn’t go to the theatres to see Die Hard or Terminator because a white man was in the starring role.
Race has value when it gets you pushed to the front of the list for jobs, promotions and contracts.
The Democrats promise the Race Mongers solutions to all grievances.. but they deliver the opposite such that they are more aggrieved & will VOTE Democrat… Again & Again….Illegal Aliens will always be Illegal, such that the Grass gets cut & cheap housekeeping is always available… Once a KKK slave owner, always a Democrat…
In Canada…..How many times have the NDP promised Free Government Child Care…Does any NDP providence have it & or ever have had it….NO… NO That is called bait for the dim-witted
.JMHO
Why does gold or bitcoin have value? Because we all agree that it does.
Our side doesn’t think that race has value, the other side does. Based on history, their side sees nothing wrong with inflation. So the soft bigotry of low expectations will further erode the merit of those (of whatever minority one wants to name) who have achieved a degree or posting. “Is xe really the best HR manager that the company could hire, or just the only differently-abled quadriplegic lesbian transgender of colour who applied?”
Interesting that if one is black and applying to college, the entrance requirements are lower than those of a white person, who in turn, has a lower standard than that of an Asian applicant. If that isn’t racism, I don’t know what is. But because it’s favourable to blacks (and unfavorable to Asians) it doesn’t exist as such.
Not sure I’m willing to buy what’s being sold here. My overall impression of corporations is that they are running scared. You portray a proactive driven mission. I see it more as a reactive mission. As in most things, sales is a popularity contest (especially in the West where there are competing brands). All it takes is some bad PR and your competitor takes over a good chunk of your market share.
To this point it has been a one sided proposition. It has been the SJW’s who have actively tried to destroy corporations unless they donated, advertised or outright regurgitated their inane messages. Conservatives and moderates have overlooked that process (and let’s call it what it truly is…Extortion). However, that’s starting to change. Hollywood is a good example. Conservatives have stopped going to movies as a result. Gillette was one of the more recent corporations to receive backlash on their extorted virtue signalling with that nonsense commercial supporting women. So, now corporations are finding that by going along with the SJW obligations they landed smack dab into a Catch 22 situation, because now the Anti-SJW’s are starting to use the behavior of these corporations as a basis on which to make their purchases. Dick’s Sporting Goods bends over and takes it from the anti-gun crew. Guess what happens to their profits? Get Woke Go Broke isn’t just a cute little saying. The NFL bends over for the anthem kneelers…guess what happens to their attendance?
Corporations as a whole screwed up. When they were pressured to bend over by the SJW’s they should have said…sorry, we sell razor blades, we don’t get political. It would have paid to actually advertise in that fashion to set the tone. Instead, the jackasses in the board room have alienated both sides of their customer base.
No, these social awareness campaigns tied to their products aren’t proactive…they are most definitely (for the most part) reactive and now damage control.
Addendum:
Were I running the advertising for any major corporation right now….here’s how I would advertise.
“Hi, we’re Coke. We make drinks that you enjoy….all of you. So, going forward, we’re changing our approach. We don’t care what your politics are. We don’t care where you live. We don’t care about your race, religion, sex, or hobbies because those things don’t have anything to do with what we do here. What we do care about is making refreshing drinks and making them well. And, we make them for all of you. ENJOY!!!”
That’s like saying “ALL Lives Matter!” – it’s perfectly true. And utterly un-sayable right now.
“Whadda you MEAN, ‘All Lives Matter’? – Only BLACK lives matter!!! You’re saying “White” lives matter? That wypipo are anything other than an ABOMINATION? An indelible stain on the UNIVERSE??? The ONLY pipo who have EVER oppressed and enslaved anyone, EVER – and are STILL DOING IT!!!! You’re RAAAAAY-CISSSSS!”
And the Press, and the politicians, and the SJW’s and the virtue-signallers will all nod sagely and take the knee. H.L. Mencken explained – they have caught religion. And the religious are ill – and incurable; and it’s the bounden duty of everybody of the BLM religion to shriek their talking-points and platitudes louder and more dogmatically than everybody else – it proves their holiness. That’s why almost all of them are white (and why blacks almost universally abhor BLM; it’s actually nothing to do with them anyways).
Global warming alarmism works exactly the same way – and the GW Alarmists are royally pi$$ed at the moment because BLM has stolen both their spotlight, and their megaphone.
Y Knott has it right. It’s not that companies can say and do the right things for their business. The cancel culture is insistent that you (and any companies that are targeted) must agree with them. There’s no neutral ground to these folks, you must bend a knee (and open wide), or you’re identified as their enemy.
Tolerance is defined as recognizing that others disagree with you, and being OK with (while not agreeing that the others are correct). BLM and Antifa are intolerant. The cancel culture is intolerant. The cancellation of “Gone With The Wind” shows that we’re in the next generation of book burning / idea destruction. And the destroyers angrily deny that they are doing what has been done before, because they’ve ensured that no modern student can learn history.
Thirty years ago, the greenest of the forest companies doing battle with the greens was MacMillan Bloedel. They had a VP in charge of environmental issues and the latest buzz word – “sustainability”. Thanks in great part to her, they very graciously, and with a high sense of decorum, lost every land use battle they encountered. If you want to see corporate cowardice, green complicity, and existential suicide, follow her career path to its latest iteration: https://www.pembina.org/contact/linda-coady
Race has no value. That’s why Africa and Asia ushered in the industrial revolution, developed thermodynamics, calculus, etc. Happy Cappy from The Stand.