Corporations win, we lose

I can’t write this like a corporate lawyer does, with legalese jargon that would stand up in court, even if it misrepresented the facts.

I am not a corporate public relations spokesman. So I can’t smooth over the tactics used to make policy and profit for the corporation, while pumping up the rationale for why it’s “good” for us to let them do so.

I don’t have money to spend to get you to become indoctrinated to “my” message, by all means and forms available, like corporations do.

I don’t have a workforce that depends on me for their paychecks and so backs me when I tell them to, like corporations do.

I don’t have the power to monopolize a market and secure my future against competition, like corporations do.

I can’t litigate court decisions with endless appeals so as to avoid paying the penalties awarded to the plaintiffs, indefinitely, like corporations do.

I am, just like you, an individual citizen of the United States of America. We all know the score. Corporations win, we lose.

  I have a voice and for now the right to use it. This issue is not a red or blue, conservative versus liberal issue. It’s an American issue. We, the individual souls living in the Chilkat Valley, have an opportunity, an obligation, to ensure the rights we have under the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, for ourselves and future generations of Americans. To say, “Enough!” Please vote “yes” on Oct. 1.  Jono Greene