The Harrison Daily ran a heart warming story about Fed Ex footing the bill to fly a terminally ill girl home from a Houston hospital so she could pass away with her family around her at home.
Recently, I asked a young woman I know about her mother’s condition. Her mother has been fighting cancer for a couple of years. It is an aggressive and difficult type of cancer to treat. The best available treatment for her is in Texas. It would cost several hundred dollars a trip for her and her husband to fly down there for treatments. Fortunately, Phillips Petroleum, an evil oil company, regularly flies it private corporate jet to the city where the hospital is located. They also regularly allow cancer patients to use the empty seats free of charge to go where they can get the treatment they need.
No doubt there is a lot of greed and corruption in the corporate world. Just as there is in the political world, the religious world, entertainment world, the media world, etc. Wherever you find people you find evil. So corporations in themselves are not the problem. Big doesn’t automatically equal evil. But I guess we have to have a devil to fight. The evil comes from the decisions and choices of the people who a part of a corporation, the politician who is in power, the religious leader who lives a double life…
At the same time, there are a lot of people who have good character and are ethical and live honorable lives. Some of them have positions of influence and power in corporations, are politicians, and religious leaders. And they do good things.
So when the government puts all its efforts into destroying the wealth of big business, we need to realize it may very well be undercutting the people who are trying to use the wealth they are a part of creating to do good. When we tell a person he or she can only make a maximum of $500,000 a year we are going to reduce the amount they will be able to give away, or the amount they will use to hire people to work for them, or the amount they will spend at the store where people work and really need them to spend that money.
When we create a sense of guilt over corporate jets and the corporation, in order to keep a decent public image, gives them up; we may be taking away the transportation a middle class woman needs to get to another city to get the treatment she needs to continue her fight against cancer.
I’m no corporate shill. I have never worked for a large corporation. I just thing we better be careful when we cheer the government on as they “stick it to the man.” We may one day wake up and find out they have stuck it to us.
