Utter Filthiness Documented

If you have read any of my anti-corporate rants/posts, you may think that I'm a pinko-commie-liberal-hippy-Jerry loving-tree hugging-dope smoking-tinfoil hat wearing-conspiracy theorist. Although you might be correct, I strongly urge you to read Hostile Takeover by David Sirota. It is a non-partisan discussion of how corporations have used the campaign finance process to entirely circumvent democracy. The book is extremely well documented and Sirota doesn't appear to have any political axe grind, as he lambasts both Republicans and Democrats. Sirota covers the subjects of taxes, wage stagnation, NAFTA (eebmore really needs to read this chapter), energy pricing, and the erosion of legal protections for the public.

Honestly, I felt that I may have been too cynical in my opinions on some of these issues. However, after reading the first half of the book, it appears that I underestimated the severity of the problem. My only issue with the book is Sirota's optimism for the future. A quick scan of the last chapter indicates that this optimism is based on the intelligence of the American public, which I feel is a wasting asset. Unless our teevees tell us that corporations are raping us and do so in an entertaining manner (perhaps a reality show about dumpster diving at Walmart), I believe that things are going to get much worse.