Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Profit Over Humanity

There is a lot of money being made in the United States of America but is it benefiting the people? We are operating on a system of what I call is "Profit Over Humanity." We will value profits of money more than the value of a human being. Lets start with the manufacturing and sale of cigarettes. Cigarettes causes cancer and deaths in this country at an all time high but they are still allowed to make them sell them, and make huge profits from them at the expense of peoples health. They even attach a surgeon general label telling of the dangers. Now lets not say people have a choice because we know the power of advertising media and addiction. The tobacco companies were already fined and exposed for making ads that were targeting children. They had already being doing that for over twenty years so the vulnerability was already in play. Now how come we could not just stop it? Huge profits to the companies which equals tax dollars and payoffs for the government.
Another way the Profit Over Humanity has occurred is because of companies being allowed to move their business over seas for cheap labor. Companies like NIKE for example were using child labor and poor work conditions in the form of sweat shops. It cost just $9 in material to make a NIKE shoe. The kids they had working were barely getting that much per day. This is not the only company. There are about 18,000 companies with off shore status which saves them money but we lose jobs here in America. When you call your cell phone company you are talking to rep in India. These are customer service jobs that we could have here. As long as companies are allowed to do this those customer service and manufacturing jobs will never come back to America.