Half of Facebook dislikes Obama.

I took this poll on Facebook today that asked me if I approved of the job Barack Obama was doing as president. Now, I know he won a lot of people over with his speeches about "Change we can believe in", but ever since he became president, it seems like he's been spending our tax dollars lavishly to pay for all sorts of stuff that he doesn't need. That's my biggest gripe with Obama. And, while he is a powerful orator, I think he's full of s***. Nothing much has seemed to change, and he claims that he's going to turn the economy around, and that he won't be pressured by lobbyists, etc. etc... So, why is Monsanto still allowed to grow GMOs? Why does McDonald's still use fattening palm oil for their burgers? Why does Microsoft still have a monopoly over the software market? Why do Wal-Mart and Nike still ship production jobs overseas? Why does big tobacco still use poisonous chemicals in their cigarettes?

Not like I really care about the economy, though. I personally despise the money system. I think it would be better if the corporations didn't exist, and more local businesses were responsible for providing services to people. Historical societies work this way, and they tend to do the best because they are uncorrupted by corporate interests. They also tend to be the richest, as well, since they rely on local, family-owned businesses instead of being multi-national corporation that doesn't care about the welfare of the people they serve. In fact, another problem I have with the current economic system is the stock market. It's only there to serve the previously mentioned multi-national corporations that I am opposed to. The people who make it work are terribly greedy and arrogant. If it were to vanish one day, or just "die", I wouldn't care, in fact, I would be saying good riddance to bad rubbish. Things shouldn't be profit-oriented, that's wrong. Instead, a business should be there to provide people with services that it needs, and it should do so within ethical boundaries. I think it is hard, if not impossible, for a multi-national fortune 500 company to do this, since it has to keep track of so many branch offices and that makes it hard for them to cater to the needs of individual people. But some of the worst ones just throw humanity out the window, many of which I mentioned in my last paragraph. McDonald's, as well as many of the fast food chains that mimic it, contribute to obesity and animal cruelty. Nike and Wal-Mart ship jobs overseas, leaving many Americans out of work, when they could be making a decent living, and the jobs they give to the people in Africa/China are so hideously grueling because of the conditions they make their workers work in. If they had the right accommodations, these manufacturing jobs wouldn't be so bad. Same goes for pay, these workers are grossly underpaid. And in the case of Nike, people who have asked for a living wage turn up missing. Microsoft, on the other hand, has a monopoly over the software market, mainly because of it's operating system, Windows, and they make faulty products, as opposed to Apple or Linux, and the alternatives don't have much support as a result, so people are forced to go with Microsoft on many things. To top it off, many anti-virus companies, like Norton and McAffee, design viruses in order to force people to buy the full version of their programs. It's blackmail! And Monsanto... Oh, Monsanto... I despise them the most. I already dug up a video and blogged about them in one of my earlier blog posts. These companies are the reason I feel the way I do about Capitalism. To me, Capitalism invented these companies, and allowed them to exist. If we had a different system of economics they probably wouldn't have even been thought of!

But, I digress. Going back to the poll on Obama, you probably know what my answer was (if not, then I'll tell you; I don't approve. He doesn't know what he's doing, or he doesn't care.) Well, after I submitted my answer, it gave me the results so far. It turns out that 50% of all the Facebook users think that Obama is doing a bad job as president. So, there you have it, he's not as popular as he was before he became president. But it's funny, if he HADN'T been president, people would have still been cheering him on and stuff like they do Al Gore. Just goes to show you, most of the time, elections are decided between "a giant douche and a turd sandwich". (quoted from an episode of South Park.)

... Oh, and if I haven't mentioned it yet already, I voted for Ralph Nader. I'm a registered independent voter.