Amerika

I’ve been called many names in my life – some of them well deserved. After writing this blog for a while, I’ve picked up a new name that I have never been called before:

Un-American

After all, don’t companies have a right to market and sell their products? And when marketing and selling these products, don’t they have a right to make a profit? This is, after all, the American Way. Like it or not, we live in a capitalistic society. Making a profit is the god-given right for any corporation. Besides, when a drug company or a health care carrier makes a profit, their shareholders benefit from that profit. They employ thousands of people, thereby providing for them and their families. Being against these companies is downright socialistic. If I don’t like what they are doing, why don’t I move to a socialist country?

Good point.

I have a very simple reply: claiming that I am un-American for my views is like saying that a prosecutor who puts rapists and child molesters behind bars is against sex.

Corporations that abuse the public trust and who force this country towards the brink of bankruptcy for the sake of windfall profits are the ones who are truly Un-American.

That’s my view and I’m sticking with it.


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