Do not design new products or organize production, just send the
half-baked specs overseas
Let
laid off workers patiently await the good jobs you said their layoffs
would help create
Walk
away from your pension and benefit obligations to go build plants in
southern china
Employ
uprooted peasants for a dollar a day and trumpet this as the great
New World Order
Give
up the croplands to the stewardship of subsidized corporate
conglomerates
Keep
them working 14 hours a day to send a little money back to starving
families
Close
up those new Mexican maquiladoras because their wages are getting
just too high
Call
poverty the price of inexorable progress and preach solemnly of
Personal Responsibility
Import
autos and oil while clumsily trying to export an inequality-based
evangelical democracy
Keep
chanting the tired fairytale about free trade creating a better world
for us all
Have
neither business nor government pensions and no savings or jobs for
those laid-off at 50
Ignore
the collapsing house of credit cards that will eventually leave 99%
in equal poverty
Trumpet
our vaporous financial genius, infantile marketing wizardry and
overpriced sales expertise
‘Invest’
trillions in deficits on defense against the phantasmal enemies who
surround us
Profit
on higher education by ensuring that it only comes with a heavy
burden of debt
Send
them back scrap metal and used paper in exchange for plasma TVs and
game consoles
Place
your implanted consumerist needs above the once-good earth that
sustains them all
Pretend
foreigners will rely on our overspending to sustain their loaning us
even more, forever
Marvel
at our consumer’s ingenuity in behaving as if their negative
savings rates are sustaiable
Call
for less government interference while lobbying for tax breaks,
subsidies and tariffs
Pretend
that multi-million dollar bonuses for cynical bankers and brokers are
just and well-deserved
Dispose
of workers at 50 but let them try to live til 80 without work,
savings or healthcare
Give
the Asian billions a little taste of the good life just as the
natural resources run out
For
god’s sake have them keep their children away from the poisoned
rivers and acid lakes
Recite
a scripted homily that decent health care is simply another
profit-driven industry
Sneeringly,
get governments out of the ‘business’ of species and
habitat preservation
Pour
billions into violently securing oil supplies and next to nothing on
its replacement
Clone
vast and toxic exurbs with economies based solely upon shopping and
services
Cleverly
design products which break just as their replacements are coming to
market
Headquarter
in Bermuda, produce in China, support in India but advertise as
All-American
Create
ads with soft music, omissions and misrepresentations spoken in
soothing tones
Convince
them that simply rewarding your blind greed will surely lead us all
to a better tomorrow
Contract
food ingredients from the lowest overseas bidder with no on-site
oversight or inspections
Polish
a reputation for iron control but, at your trial, claim you never
knew of any crimes
Act
eager to clear your name but let your greasy, expensive lawyer do all
the talking
Scurry
from the spotlight behind toadying spokesmen you deliberately keep in
ignorance
Cynically
foster a bitter political stalemate that lets your criminal neglect
continue to run its course
Then
duck into waiting limos without a comment, O ye brave knights of
unbridled capitalism
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