from savings cards to insurance

One of the essential things to life is food. In this day and age, you might as well lump your basic hygiene necessities such as soap, deodorant, tampons into that essential category. My point is this. Most of the big corporations that provide these amenities offer their “savings card.” The peculiar thing is that at the bottom of your receipt is usually displays “your savings this year to date.” Whether the file is computerized or not, there is a file that has to keep track of this. To keep “your savings” separated from everybody else’s. Are they saving just the amount of money you pay, or are they also saving everything that you bought?

Profits depend on supply and demand. It would be very beneficial to find out what the American people are purchasing. It would even be beneficial to know which kind of stores you frequent. If they see that people are buying tons of pasta, they can squeeze the pasta makers by subsidizing them to shut down for a short time. That will reduce supply, therefore raising the price, and the profit. Did this pasta become more expensive for companies to produce? No. In fact it is much easier for the government to hide the subsidies in the endless books of taxes than it would be for the pasta industry to raise prices on their own.

A more dangerous way to use this against you is to threaten you with the loss of these items unless you support a new law of some kind. Even more dangerous is knowing that a terrorist computer hacker (Arab OR American) could possibly find out this information and destroy the masses by focusing on what they are buying. If they focus their efforts on contaminating that pasta factory, we could be in big trouble.

I apologize to the pasta producers of the world, because I was only using them as an example. But I hope you see my point. Although having thought of this years ago, it was tucked away until my friend brought it up to me, yesterday. This is the same friend that recently said she was “tired of hearing about the system.”

We can’t stay blind forever, the system may indeed be well and good, but if we don’t explore it, we will never know.

Who controls the government? Politicians. Who are the easiest targets of complaints, ridicule and scandal? Politicians. Who made the present laws that confuse and stifle us? Politicians. What kind of government are we SUPPOSED to have? Democracy. Who controls the government under a democracy? The people. Who complains about the government? The people.

I want anarchy, but I’m willing to subscribe to this democracy if the people will actually rise up and take control of this country. “But the government is so damn complicated,” you say. Well lets simplify it. Wipe away the nonsense, get rid of the bureaucrats and start taking responsibility for that coffee you spilled in your lap. Which brings me to my next point.

In anarchy, that huge corporation wouldn’t exist. There wouldn’t be millions of dollars sitting in their bank accounts to pay off that lawsuit. On the other hand, if that corporation made all that money squeezing your hard earned cash out of your hand, what’s wrong with somebody exploiting the system and using it against them? Unfortunately we can not all do that. Most of us prefer to take care of ourselves, be more careful with that cup of coffee, walk carefully across a sheet of ice. A lot more of us would be careful if there wasn’t a monetary protection company. These are called insurance companies. If the people didn’t have insurance to rely on, they would drive a lot more carefully. Wouldn’t that be nice?

People complain about drivers almost as much as politicians. Let me share a quick story with you. In New Mexico (that IS a United State, by the way) you are required to have insurance on your car. But proof of insurance is limited to a card that you are issued when you open your policy, and then every year after that. If you pay the down payment on your premium, the insurance company issues you a “proof of insurance card” and gives you a payment plan. If you don’t pay your bill, your insurance gets cancelled, but you retain that insurance card. If you get pulled over, you will avoid a “no insurance” ticket because you have this card. In your heart though, you will know that you have no insurance and you will be careful on the road. I knew many people who did this, but more importantly when somebody did this for a while, and then finally got the money together to buy insurance again…(pause for emphasis) THEY CRASHED THEIR CAR!