More self esteem issues

Today I saw two things on TV that really struck me as indicative that this country is suffering from very low self esteem.

A campaign ad from as far as I can tell the oil companies from people saying that no way in this economy should anyone ask the oil companies to pay more taxes or in any way diminish their corporate profits because that would be bad for the economy.

Later on a news story about the same old thing-employees being asked to make sacrafices of wages and/or benefits under threat that the employer will leave. And people interviewed considered it the right and patriotic thing for the employees to give in to the demands of the employer.

So we think we as workers deserve very little if anything at all and the corporate gods do not owe us anything for making them their profits to begin with. We all know that if we tax them, they charge us more. But that's okay. But when we are charged more for Everything from food to medical, hell we do not have the right to charge any more.

I am not saying that these are not rough times and people really have very little choice about keeping jobs or not these days. I am just saying that nobody even get Angy about it. Well, not at the right people anyway. Because if they could see the balance sheets of some of these companies maybe they would say yes you can pay me more, you just wont you greedy people.

Or when Citibank takes the money our taxes gave to them and uses it to create jobs in CHINA. Where is the outrage? The same place our self esteem went? Or our brains?

I keep hearing we need to create an environment friendly to business. Well yes, we need business. But not Crappy business. We need honest American business friendly to US. What about having a people friendly environment? Where lives mean more than profits?