Every now and then we all need to rant about something.  I know that we now live in the "Global Economy" but enough is enough.  If you have not figured it out yet, basically Corporate America runs our country and it is past time that we take it back.  The special interest money provided to the pocketbooks of our representatives in the Congress and Senate all comes from the major corporations via straight out of our pockets.  Think about it...

Corporations are skimming funds out of their accounts from money they made off of us, to have laws made for themselves.   It is no longer  "Of the People, By the People, and For the People" , but "Of the Corporation, By the Corporation, and For the Corporation."   Let's look at the 2010 Health care laws to prove the point.  We are all starting to find out that the law will not actually provide better and less expensive health care, but it will make the stockholders and the CEO's of the health care and insurance corporations richer.

These same corporations also gave us the "Click-it or Ticket" seat belt laws.  The guise behind the law was to save more lives, but in actuality it placed more profits into the insurance corporations pockets so they can buy more senators and congressmen.  The initial bill stated that your insurance company was to give you a discount if you wore your seat belt, but wait, that would mean that the corporations would have to charge you less and give back some of their profits.  That was not going to happen so the bill was changed to "Click-it or Ticket" and now the corporations could give back to their communities, by making you pay a ticket on top of higher insurance costs. -"Of the Corporations" -

I will not stop there as it is not just the insurance corporations screwing the normal American citizen, it is the majority of them.   For the last thirty years, most of the major corporations have been laying off thousands of American workers to outsource work overseas.  They have been doing it to cut their costs and increase their profits for their stockholders and CEO's.  Think about it and you will find that Enron and Worldcom are not the only corporations that  "fixed their books" and  in doing so  they take you and I to the cleaners.   - "By the Corporations" -

Today most major corporations have closed down their American run factories, plants and customer support call centers and outsourced the jobs to countries like India, Puerto Rico and other third world countries, where the majority of the workers and customer support agents can barely speak a legible version of American English.  So why haven't the American citizens done anything?  Maybe it is time to start doing something before we get to the 29th day... If we are not already there.

Most recently, I had a problem with the Web Photo Album company, Snapfish.  It took me 45 minutes of phonetically spelling the information I needed to convey to Snapfish representative, and this was a third level supervisor who stated "He talked English good" .   If I had been talking to an American representative, the conversation probably could have been resolved in less than 10 minutes.  Snapfish is owned by Hewlett Packard, the great American company,  and they think so little of customers like me and you that they give us the old customer - no - support . - "For the Corporations"-

Several years back, Sage, another once American owned software corporation,  creating Peachtree Accounting, "Time Slips" and other HR types of software decided to layoff most of the American customer service reps and replaced them with a call center in India.  Their client base of lawyer and legal based customers in America would not stand for it and went to using products made by other companies.   AT&T moved it's Internet Services call center to Puerto Rico and although they had great profits for their stockholders, their customer support went into the toilet and a phone call would normally take an hour to resolve even simple issues.   Allstate Insurance , the "Good Hands people" moved their customer call center to India and it took over 6 months to get a simple claim handled, then they claimed that they were going to cancel the homeowner's account for having too many claims in a 6 month period.  So, one (1) claim is too many for this insurance giant.

From all of this, I have concluded that I am going to do some voting with my pocketbook. For the companies listed above and several others, I have decided to no longer use any of their services or products.  I have started investigating the major corporations that I am doing business with and if they decide that their stockholders are more important than their customers, and they dump American jobs  to save money in India or Puerto Rico or anywhere else outside of America, that I am going to dump them.  We need to fight to bring back jobs to America, because we still know how to grow cotton, but we do not even have a single company to turn it into string.

Today, is the time to start voting with your pocketbooks, and if a corporation is not doing this country right, then stop using their products and services, stop buying their stock and send them a letter or an email to tell them you are tired of the way they are treating Americans.  It is time to take back America from the corporations and give it back to the people.

And No this is not a April Fool's Day Joke!