The Huffington Post | Latest News

By , July 14, 2005 11:11 am

The Huffington Post | Latest News
Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines.

Read on a bit for the conflict of interest part. This is the kind of thing that we have to eliminate. Don’t know how or if it’s even possible but somehow if we are to survive as a people instead of as producer/consumers in a corporate work force.

The early verges of this are on us now as auto makers put employees parking further away that drive other brand cars. Coke firing employees for drinking Pepsi. Walmart touting how much it does for the communities it infests while it instructs its employees to apply for food stamps and federal aid. Tis old news and not new news but it illustrates how our society as a whole is going.

Trademarks everywhere. I’m not immune. I’m typing this on an Apple iBook that I tried to talk myself out of getting. But I got it from a small business. They pissed me off and I may never go back there again but that’s another story.

Ramble, ramble. It all ties together in my head and probably nowhere else.

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