scalawags

You have this way of presenting systems, corporations, and libertarianism in an ideal form, but the opposite for democracy (the people, in their wisdom, select the wisest leaders who steer the ship of state in the best direction, because they know that if they don't the public will vote them out of office).  Which sounds not unlike your description of how corporations work, and which you seem to approve of, but government, especially at the federal level is full of scalawags (I like this term better than pricks and crooks which sounds a bit coarse). 

All these systems, they work great as long as there are no scalawags.  But scalawags are everywhere.  It's like saying a certain umbrella works great as long as their is no rain.   And I want to say something about good guys and bad guys, nice guys and scalawags, and on the gun side, law-abiding citizens and criminals.  What I want to say is it's not like people are one or the other.  As the Rolling Stones sang in the late sixties, "Every cop is a criminal and all your sinners saints."  Of course the name of that song is "Sympathy for the Devil," and the speaker is that great scalawag, Beelzebub himself.  And it ain't it just like the devil to try to sow discord among the sons of men? 

It seems to me that the terms good guys and bad guys used to be used in westerns and comic books, and in general in the world of kids.  When adults used them they were kind of referring to the simplistic stories of their youth, but it was something they had left behind.  Anymore you see pundits and guys running for the highest office in the land throwing those terms around with impunity, as if they described the way the world was, and as if all that was needed to set the world right was for the good guys to whip the bad guys.

But as the Rolling Stones said, even though they were speaking in the voice of Beelzebub, and their mission was to sow discord among the sons of men, nobody is all good and nobody is all bad, and the good guys whipping the bad guys is not the solution to our problems because we are all some of one and some of the other.

I guess all I am trying to say here is corporations (big business) are full of scalawags who are out to feather their nests and don't give a damn about the USA, or even the corporation, and certainly not with providing you with whatever it is you need to fix your truck at a fair price.  Oh they will provide you with that part, but not necessarily at a fair price because they are in cahoots with their competitors or maybe they drove them out of business, and they will charge whatever they can get away with, and if making a cheaper inferior product makes them more money they will be fine with that, or if something with manipulating money is more profitable they will do that.  Have you noticed how many of those guys end up in the slammer even though they have the best lawyers money can buy?

Those huge salaries the CEOs get have nothing to do with getting the best talent.  That's all I wanted to say.

Clive stayed back at the ranch, it is his nutty son who is out there.  They still haven't tried to collect that million from Clive, probably because they would pay more than a million dealing with his gun-toting faceless hordes.  That arson thing is a little strange.  Apparently they set fire to public lands and got short prison terms, but now the gov wants to give them five years, so how does that work?  But they are going peaceably to the hoosegow and want nothing to do with the mini faceless gun-toting horde.

Local FHs not bothering me.  I'm not so afraid that I want to stock up on AK-47s.