merry christmas and so is your mother

Oh I declare Beagles sometimes writing at you is like writing at a wall. For one thing you keep confusing corporations with business. Did your father earn money to feed and clothe you, and send you to school? Was he a corporation? I don’t know for sure, but I don’t think so. Business is fine. Without trade and commerce we would all be living on some isolated piece of land fishing and shooting deer to stock the larder. With commerce we are able to live in tall towers in cities of light. I am certainly for commerce.

And then you say that well maybe corporations haven’t wiped out poverty, but neither has government, well neither has Charlie Manson, nor the Lord Almighty. This is the so is your mother argument. If we are talking about corporations, let’s talk about corporations, we can talk about politicians later. You are the one who said corporations could pull people out of poverty. Personally, I would rather see the poor people form their own corporations and make their own money (Beagles 12/23/14 6:5) And anyway I don’t know how you distinguish business from politics and businessmen from politicians, inasmuch as one influences the other and the businessmen become politicians and vice versa.

And the bottom of your first paragraph which goes something like corporations are man’s best friend and corporations are the devil incarnate. Geez-A-Lou, like the grandpa in Everybody Loves Raymond used to say (this country needs more old guys in their undershirts saying Geez-A-Lou, just like it needs good Cuban cigars, oh wait, we are going to get good Cuban Cigars thanks to my good buddy Barak Hussein).

And who built the road to Beaglesonia so that you can spend the social security money that the government runs for you? And who regulates your deer so that some idiot doesn’t get out in his 4x4 with an AR-17 and shoot them all leaving none for you? And keeps the Canadians from invading and making you say aboot instead of about? And who did that nifty little trick that made Kim Jong-un’s internet go out?

Of course it’s a hypothetical question, and maybe you wouldn’t invest in Liecheatandsteal earning ten percent annually and instead put your money Peaceonearthgoodwilltowardsmen which is losing two percent every year, but I’ll wager most everybody else in the country will. It’s just meant to illustrate the inherently amoral structure of corporations. But you can’t tell the difference between businesses and corporations so I don’t know why I am talking to you. Well maybe because nobody else is lining up to talk to me.

Oh Merry Christmas to you too.