Is Corporate America Out of Touch with Reality?

In the past and even more recently there hasn't ever been any "one American government entity" that has ever honestly and successfully "policed" white collar criminals. By the time the general public has even heard about any executive or group of executives (being investigated, let alone being charged) with any wrong doings there were 1,000 or more who are sitting back laughing, saying, "Bad luck to you, Joe, they didn't catch me, I am starting a new game at the next corporation that hires me".

The means that drives this greed and out of control inhumanity is in the corporate hierarchy machine and it is a well oiled, super charged, very private, enterprise. Anyone who has actually been behind closed doors in some of the meetings of the Top Brass had better check your morals and ethics at the door or you will be squashed like a bug! The name of the game is Greed.

There are many smoke and mirrors tools that these top people know how to use to do their dirty work, but of all of these tools, the one that usually gets everyone's attention is the Annual Budget. From the politician to the top executives it is all a big game, they know it, and they are good at it. They know exactly how to get their own hedonistic ways passed through the smoke screen and no one is able tostop it, because they are busy doing the same thing.

In every industry I have worked in over the years, budgets are the "big book" they are the "Bible" of the company and now a days everyone in every department has a copy. In the old days they were all top secret and only the top executives are to know how the company's money is spent, ohh, ahh, oohh, oh, my. Now, though to hide in plain sight, everyone gets to see where the company's money goes. Well, sort of, employees see a bunch of bulk figures that mean absolute nothing in the real world or in the corporation's real 55 bank accounts. Also, budgets are just guesses. It's not rocket science, although you would think the people putting together these budgets are. These people are not psychics or mind readers; it's just a guess from a spending sheet from this year. A 6^th grader could have sat in some of the "annual budget summits" that I have and figured out how to apply this years spending to say exactly what you want for next years budget!

Budgets are only one example of the many tools that have been used for corporate greed and corruption. As I said I feel it is all based on "magic smoke and mirrors entertainment management". I am very relieved to see the scandals coming out in the public, but I also know that it is not even close to the tip of the iceberg, yet. I am hoping that the up and coming generations of Americans will eventually come up with a better system in place and a more realistic foundation of which to run their corporations on.