GlaxoSmithKline
another corporate beast found to be doing what comes naturally to
them, fiddling. The pharmaceutical giant has been fined $3 billion
for fraud. It seems that this particular corporate beast behaved like
a true capitalist and put the profit of its shareholders before the
health of the public at large. Ignoring the consequences of its
action on the users of its drugs it promoted its best-selling
antidepressants for unapproved uses and failed to report safety data
about a top diabetes drugs, according to American federal
prosecutors. The $3 billion agreement also includes civil penalties
for improper marketing of a half-dozen other drugs. It just goes on
and on, the big corporate beasts fiddle their tax returns, lie, bribe
and indulge in price fixing, the banks fiddle the interest rate, and
the rich celebrities stash their loot out of sight of the tax man.
While you and I pick up the tab and suffer the consequences of their
corruption.
If you make me pay taxes, I'll just leave.
It
doesn't have to be this way, there is an alternative to this
corporate fascism that we live under. We have the resources, and the
imagination to create a system that sees to the needs of all our
people, a system built on co-operation, sustainability and mutual
aid. We don't need profit, it is the leeches and the parasites that
need profit to feed their ego and their greed. We don't need them,
they need us. We mine, make, grow, harvest, and distribute everything
on this planet, our world would be richer if we didn't care this
baggage of scum on our backs. Capitalism is just a man made economic
system, it is not set in tablets of stone, we created this nightmare
system, we can destroy it and send it to the dustbin of history.
However time is running out, we have to start now, before it destroys
all of us.
