So my newest personal (global) affliction is corporate welfare. "What is this?," you ask, marveling at how the words "corporate welfare" roll easily off your tongue. "It sounds so nice," you think to yourself. And, as several people I've talked to seem to query, "Wow, corporations are giving to people and places in need? Maybe this world of big business ain't so bad." If this is your mindset, friends, you have clearly been deceived.
Corporate welfare is money that has been GIVEN to corporations (that's right, FREE money) by the GOVERNMENT! That's right, your tax dollars at work, supporting big business. Okay, so maybe SOME businesses are deserving. But IBM, General Motors, Pillsbury and General Electric? Those companies have received quite a hefty sum from Uncle Sam, who doles out an average of $125 BILLION per year.
So what about social welfare? You know, the money that helps out the those unable to work, the disabled woman down the street, or the guy who recently lost his wife to leukemia and has to pay off doctor bills, funeral expenses, and raise two kids on his own? Let's just say the numbers don't exactly add up to $125 billion...oh, yeah, and there's still a war going on (I'm sorry, didn't I say 'peacekeeping'?) that continues to be paid and paid and paid for (costing much more than coinage I dare say).
Search for yourself. You'll be surprised.
Information I suggest:
"The Big One"---a documentary by Michael Moore
A TIME article from 1998 that is eerily undated
http://www.corporations.org/
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