When punishments fit the crime in every state, when corporate officers can no longer draw robber-baron salaries and can no longer receive million dollar severence pay, when our public servants and statesmen stop being self-serving politcal prostitutes, when Microsoft sells products that are no longer filled with system crashing flaws that require endless updates and reinstallations that cost many hours in time and energy, not to mention dollars, when I can charge for phone conversations I have with parents, after school tutoring time, and lesson planning and paper grading time, just like lawyers who write laws in their legal-babble language that requires hiring another lawyer to interpret, when people who need medical care and medicine no longer have to juggle their budget to sacrifice a meal or a utility bill payment to pay for the health care granted to every corporate manager and legislator, and I could go on and on about all of the legal, yet unethical manipulations of markets and industries, then perhaps I will feel like cyber-pirates are doing something illegal or unethical. Piracy, in all of its variations, is apparently very American. I could continue this rant and talk about corporations that have polluted our air, waterways, and soil, and the cost to public health, and how they have rarely been held accountable or responsible for all the damage caused by the by-products of their production. There is very little justice and equity in this country. Someone said something like money doesn't talk, it shouts. Patronage thrives. Our legislators and the laws they enact are bought and paid for by the industries that they are elected to oversee, so they will look the other way as markets are manipulated, and the average worker is used, abused, and refused adequate compensation for a day of work. I would encourage everyone to dip into the communal kitty, until you are comfortable. It's the American way; it IS The State of the Union!
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When punishments fit the crime in every state, when corporate officers can no longer draw robber-baron salaries and can no longer receive million dollar severence pay, when our public servants and statesmen stop being self-serving politcal prostitutes, when Microsoft sells products that are no longer filled with system crashing flaws that require endless updates and reinstallations that cost many hours in time and energy, not to mention dollars, when I can charge for phone conversations I have with parents, after school tutoring time, and lesson planning and paper grading time, just like lawyers who write laws in their legal-babble language that requires hiring another lawyer to interpret, when people who need medical care and medicine no longer have to juggle their budget to sacrifice a meal or a utility bill payment to pay for the health care granted to every corporate manager and legislator, and I could go on and on about all of the legal, yet unethical manipulations of markets and industries, then perhaps I will feel like cyber-pirates are doing something illegal or unethical. Piracy, in all of its variations, is apparently very American. I could continue this rant and talk about corporations that have polluted our air, waterways, and soil, and the cost to public health, and how they have rarely been held accountable or responsible for all the damage caused by the by-products of their production. There is very little justice and equity in this country. Someone said something like money doesn't talk, it shouts. Patronage thrives. Our legislators and the laws they enact are bought and paid for by the industries that they are elected to oversee, so they will look the other way as markets are manipulated, and the average worker is used, abused, and refused adequate compensation for a day of work. I would encourage everyone to dip into the communal kitty, until you are comfortable. It's the American way; it IS The State of the Union!