Some Things Never Change

Most people probably don’t know (or don’t remember) that America’s beginning was not so glorious. The first colony was employees of the Virginia Company, an English corporation formed by politicians and politically connected investors that was made up of prisoners and slum dwellers from England’s jails. They were sent here to plunder and steal from the Indians. They fought amongst themselves and the company was a miserable failure at first. It took almost twelve years and the establishment of a lottery in England to finance the colony. It wasn’t until they began growing tobacco that they were sustainable and profitable.

So it was an undemocratic corporation of thieves who used gambling profits to finance the growing of the addictive drug tobacco which they introduced to Europe that marked the beginning of this nation.

Corporate thieves, gambling, drugs, looting, profiteering and corruption; some things never change.

Gary