Big Brother Movement Gains Ground

The economic expectations of corporate executives haven't changed much this year. They are still planning a round of significant layoffs and expecting falling stock prices for publicly-traded firms. Clearly, government intervention in the world of capitalism has been significant and helpful, allowing many financial firms to survive when they would have failed. This has been good for the power structure and the world of poorly-run business, enabling over-educated self-absorbed executives to gain more authority. Big Brother government works along with corporate interests to gain control over the livelihood and labor of the world.

Executives recognize the importance of recent government intervention in the financial system. The American people and the world have continued to watch business creativity and innovation go down the drain except in the realm of microcredit. The focus has been on the interests of global multinationals and Big Business Corporate America rather than smaller business and the average citizen. This should not be a surprise, really, as the U.S. government has put its' stock and trade, including tax benefits and breaks, into Big Business in an effort to gain more control and monitoring power over the average citizen. The last several decades have proved that fact as government has sought more and more control over the paycheck of every American. Computing power has allowed easy government intervention and access into the business of every business, man, woman and child as the years have passed. Small business and especially the independent businessman or entrepreneur doesn't help the U.S. government get the control and governance over the citizenship that they seek where money governance is concerned.

That desire for control, along with selling out the small businessman and average citizen to Big Business has undermined the U.S. economy to the point of disaster. Still, government authority doesn't see it that way. They continue to think inside the same box as they actively seek to gain more control over the personal affairs and livelihood of each citizen.

Big Business still sees itself as resilient, even with a dramatic fall in GDP last year and an expected decrease this year. Big Business continues to delude itself about recovery as it sheds itself of record numbers of employees. They are hoping that the economy has already hit bottom as they continue lay off workers, the ultimate in schizophrenic economic thought. It is as if there are no repercussions in the mind of business for laying off huge numbers of staff in an economically-challenged society. As record layoffs and unemployment continues, deluded Big Business still expects an economic upturn by the end of 2009, while acknowledging their dependence on the American consumer, even on a global basis. Big Business continues to kid itself regarding the importance of the United States in the global economy. Multinationals long for the true global economy where they can pick and choose their actions without consequence. That is not the real world. Science gives us the mantra: "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Personal and business decisions are not without consequences, yet Big Business doesn't care for that reality as they seek to transcend human knowledge with their wishful thinking.

Big Business economists and CEOs still promote the idea of the current recession lasting 18 months and a return to business as usual. The corporate life of the Big Business Scrooge is all about convenience. and the immediate justification of any immediate decision. Meanwhile, they continue the corporate bloodletting and immediate politics of their own self-worth. How does this promote the recovery that they seek and long for? How are they investing in any future beyond their own bonuses and bank accounts?

As a result of a completely self-absorbed attitude in the Big Business and Multinational World, that business is shooting itself in the foot if it seeks a quick recovery. Business executives keep focusing on the idea that government actions have saved business. They have become accustomed to corporate welfare and massive tax breaks on the back side, which amounts to more corporate welfare. They continue to put the squeeze on their work force: demanding more employment qualifications, finding ways to undermine the independence and creativity of the work force they need and determining to hold the line of their bottom line regardless of the economic weather.

According to the McKinsey Quarterly March 2009 Newsletter, a majority of business executives now think that governments around the world should be more active in business and markets at least some of the time. Obviously, they want favor when it favors them. The modern world has entered a new age of global fascism, promoting immediate business interest and profits as the god of the world.

Executives also worship at the altar of innovation, even though they don't pretend to know what innovation is where their business is concerned. The McKinsey Quarterly indicates that executives support innovation through the overall focus of government actions. This is code for government handouts, special favors and business decisions without consequence to justify their existence in a brave new world of blind corporatism.