Berating Corporations… biting the hand that feeds you

I saw a post today from the “Seniors for a Democratic Society” Facebook page, where Sen. Bernie Sanders said “if you want to start going after someone for closing the deficit, start with these greedy corporations!”  I would comment on their Facebook page, but they blocked my comments after one post I made on their page that was counter to their philosophy, which seems to be that the rest of the world exists to provide them with the good life.  Had I been able to comment on this post, here is what I would have said.  What are corporations?  Legal entities set up by one or more people who want to invest their money to produce a good or service to offer for sale to others.  Their objective is to receive a reasonable return on their investment, and they only do that if what they offer is voluntarily purchased by someone who values it, and if their cost to produce it (plus the added costs of the government’s take) is less than the cost to provide it.  That is how we have pacemakers, cars, food, stints, entertainment, houses, televisions, gasoline, phones, and everything else we consume.  Somehow, those who post on Seniors for a Democratic Society seem to think that corporations, who only provide what consumers voluntarily purchase, are evil, yet, they want all the goods and services the corporations produce.  This seems to me to be the epitome of “biting the hand that feeds you.”

What makes politicians successful?

Politicians who represent special interests are successful.  Politicians who uphold the Constitution and represent the average citizen are not successful.  Why?  Those who want something from the government band together to elect politicians who will deliver what they want.  Those of us who just want to be left alone and who want political power dispersed as defined in our Constitution, don’t take the time to organize into a “special interest” group, so our voices go unrepresented.