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If one can accept that the business model for the last 50+ years has been planned obsolescence, then one can begin to make sense of the world he or she lives in.  We need "stuff".  They need to build a customer base and expand sales.  That's called growth.  Like The Blob, a business must grow, consume competitors, and feed its insatiable need to pay dividends and insanely huge bonuses.  That wouldn't be possible if a product outlived its purchaser.  Enter the design flaw.  You know, the one that guarantees it's going to stop working 7-10 years after you've brought it home.  Which means you are going to have to run out and  ........get another one.  "Well, I bet this one will last longer.  The technology is so much better."  Except having it last longer doesn't fit their business model.  After all, who in their right mind would agree to pay a large sum of money for a product designed to fail?  Take a look in the mirror because that's who agreed. 

Thanks to a suggestion by Kirby a few years ago, I was able to watch a video titled Who Killed The Electric Car?.   There it was:  a product that worked, customers loved, and required little maintenance.  So you know it just had to go!  Until a better design came along (or a government pushing all things green) and the GM Volt was unveiled.  It is going to save this country millions of barrels of oil a year, I tell you!  Oh, there's just one pesky little quirk that needs to be fixed first: batteries that catch fire.  But other than that, it's all good!  We, the taxpayer, were given the privilege of bailing them out  and,  in return, received a faulty product.

As future queen (and I mean in the very near future), one official proclamation would be: no more bail-outs.  I don't want to keep paying for someone else's failure.  And I sure don't want YOU paying for it, either.  If corporations are given the same rights as people (thanks for that, Supreme Court), then it only stands to reason they get ALL the rights ~ including the right to fail.  A free market is most assuredly NOT one where taxpayers assume all the risks and companies reap all profits.  What it should be called is a con game and anyone promoting it should be run out of town after the proper tarring and feathering.