bikerfish ,
Why do we need clean drinking water at our homes when we can suck someone else's spring dry and transport it great distances to be consumed from a bottle at a buck-fifty a pint?
Oh, and let's make lot's of nice plastic bottles for the water, too. Maybe, we can make them out of corn instead of oil. That's SO much better.
Thanks to great marketing and general ignorance, this all seems great to the average person.
This is all so screwed up: greed at the gas wells, greed at the water bottling plants, greed in Harrisburg & Washington.
Oh, and keep the voters in the dark. Win their minds and hears with great marketing and keep them pacified with entertainment.
Seriously, that anyone thinks any of this is OK blows my mind. If ignorance is bliss, there are a whole lot of happy people in this country.
Did anyone see Thank You for Smoking? It may be a slightly paranoid take on this kind of marketing, but I bet it's not far off the mark.
We rely upon the government to regulate and oversee large corporations so they don't take advantage of us. How can our elected officials be trusted to do that when their campaigns are largely funded by these same corporations? It's an inherent conflict of interests.
This is not just about gas wells and bottling plants. It's an inherent flaw in our system We need campaign finance reform, term limits and a general overall of the election process.
The wisdom of our founding fathers is lost when we have nearly unlimited campaign funds for a few candidates and there is no dialog, only one way sound bites.
This is not how America is supposed to work.
