While reading Endgame: Disaster Capitalism, New Orleans, and the Charter Scam by Paul Thomas, I was reminded of another piece I have been reading from the National Geographic Magazine for May 2016 that focuses on Yellowstone as another perfect example of why there must be an honest and un-corrupted government to limit the greedy excesses of out-of-control capitalism where CEOs — according to Forbes being a CEO is the most popular profession of psychopaths — that worship at the altar of avarice, and are determined to turn a profit and grow fortunes at any cost no matter how many people suffer.

The United States government was not created through the U.S. Constitution to be a government for capitalism. The U.S. Constitution created a government and a republic to protect all the people, not to provide opportunities only for the Bill Gates, Donald Trumps, Kochs, Waltons, Zuckerbergs, Tim Cooks and Eli Broads of the world.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution does NOT say, “We the autocratic CEOs managing private sector, for-profit corporations, in Order to form a more perfect Marketplace, establish unending profits for our shareholders, insure continued consumerism, provide mostly useless products and services, promote many methods of debt for losers that belong to the 99%, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our families—and no one else—do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America that belongs to the 0.1%.”

Here is the real Preamble to the U.S. Constitution that was written to protect all the people from tyrants of all sorts, including psychopathic CEOs of autocratic, for profit, private sector corporations.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

In Conclusion, I urge readers of this Blog to not only share the link to this post with everyone they know but also to heed a warning from Benjamin Franklin.

At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 a lady asked Dr. Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it, “ Franklin allegedly replied. – Bartleby.com

What is closer to a monarchy, a for-profit corporation managed by an autocratic un-elected CEO that answers only to a board of directors and/or a few of the wealthiest and most powerful shareholders OR a republic with power divided between the appointed justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, the elected Congress and an elected president with a term limit of eight years after winning a second election for another four years to live in the White House and pledge: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”?

Words for Thought – the Enlistment Oath of the U.S. Armed Forces: “I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

Maybe it is time for the U.S. Military to step in and defend America against its domestic enemies who are spending billions to Subvert the American government and trample the U.S. Constitution and the Republic it created.

I also suggest reading A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2010 to learn more about how corporations manipulate our world and our lives.

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Lloyd Lofthouse is a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam Veteran, with a BA in journalism and an MFA in writing, who taught in the public schools for thirty years (1975 – 2005).

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