Are We All in This Together?

Consumerism has to change. Products must improve. We can no longer accept making marginal products that will bring in a lot of cash and turn into trash within 6 months.

We can not operate a Linear System like Consumerism on a Finite Planet.

Consumerism translates into Screw the Poor People in the end by offering them cheap products that fall part and have little if any useful life. That system hurts everyone using raw materail, causing wars to get the materail even cheaper, and extrenalizing cost creating more poverty around the world.

The industry in the story have yet to face the facts that just doing business the old way creates more problems than it solves. Even the business furniture lines produce as much as 63 % more toxic waste to create the materail for the funiture maker to use. This externalized cost of waste and waste disposal fall on the public who have to deal with polluated water, air and land.

U know when things are good nobody complains BUT when it's bad everbody points the finger!

Q:How much money do people need? We work to get the necessities in life and carry on.

CORPORATION SALARY CAP

Many of us have always lived and respected the earth, material on it and never sought to live the high life with a lot of fancy stuff.

We live below our means and we use only what we actually need. We recycle and we try to get other to repect our planet.

We are the ones who created the surplus in Oil by conserving. We are the problem because our efforts at getting people to conserve engery lead the Auto Companys to reconize they could built huge tracks and SUV's and sale them because the gas would be cheap.

Sorry we created this problem by conserving engery but that is just the way we are built. We will try better to buy stuff that breaks in a week, bigger vechiles than we will ever need. Like my neighbor with his 4 doors show truck. Just him and his wife. She can't even climb up in his truck so it remains parks all the time and he has never put anything in the bed of the truck.

So as a consumer we can only vote using one means. Put your money and mouth in sync with each other. I do indeed try to do that. I have purchased primarily Toyota and Lexus cars, why? They just do not have the "Built in Obsolescent" that the big American automaker put in their designs. I have purchased when available over the years American, German, Swiss tools to use. Some of them I have used for over forty years. To vote this way is to win on a personal basis, why try to win the big battle? Just win for your self, works for me. See Ya. :--)