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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:00 PM
Subject: More of: What They Really Mean
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Taking Back Our Economy - Part 10 What do They Really Mean?
This week our defining of "Corporate Agenda" terms continues. Corporate Agenda Term #2: Small Government What they say: "Get government off our backs! What we need is a small government." What they mean: -
We don't want to deal with government regulation and rules; we should be able to do what we want, when we want.
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We don't want to worry about resources for anyone who becomes disabled or can't work, the poor, their children, the elderly, or anyone without health care -- they should have to fend for themselves.
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Rules tie the hands of corporations. We should just trust them to do the right things.
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In the words of Grover Norquist, we need to cut government "to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." (Norquist is a right-wing extremist who advocated for abolishing government departments such as the FDA and the Department of Education.) Corporate Agenda Term #3: Economic Stability What they say: "We need to focus on keeping inflation down."
(Note: Inflation has to do with rising prices of wages and goods.) What they mean: -
It's better if more people (at least 5%) are unemployed so companies don't have to raise wages to attract workers.
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We need to keep flooding our market with cheap goods from foreign producers so there's never a shortage for people to buy -- and us to make money on!
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Everything -- high unemployment, strong and rapid economic growth, etc. -- should take a back seat to policies that prevent inflation.
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We don't want to deal with unions that want higher wages to keep up with rising costs. 
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