What is your price?

What is your price? The corporate man asked me. Three times. The man kept pressing the issue telling me everyone has a price, what iss yours? The third time tired of telling him I simply was not interested in selling the mine or becoming his corporations partner. A response came. It was not intended to offend the man or the corporation he was representing. He just could not understand the English language. "No, I am not interested at this time." I told him if I decide at some time in the future I want to sell the mine I will let you know. I had repeated that twice in forty-five minutes. So the man proceeded to tell me my likes and dislikes. In his sales pitch he continued to tell me how the advantages of having them for a partner would allow me the ability to spend my winters in Florida fishing, enjoying the sunshine and not have any worries about the mine. They could take care of all those things for me at the mine and I would be free of all that work and get paid too. I do have to say the man was not as tacky about saying what their interest were in my mine like the other corporate mining operation, "We wanna control all the federal road contracts here. His was possibly worse at, "What is your price everyone has one?" Then again I learned something about myself that day as the words popped out without thinking, You may well be right Tom everyone has a price. Jesus paid mine two-thousand years ago. I don't think you can top that. It was either words he understood or words he did not have a response for because he did not say anymore about, "What is your price everybody has one?"

The whole idea behind the mine was to help the community. How could that happen if I sold out to a big corporation that could care less about the little community?

How could I have known that thirty three percent of the retirement funds of the Wells Fargo people were invested in Martin Marietta? At that point I still believed Wells Fargo was truly helping small businesses too. Until that day I had thought Martin Marietta was a decent company also. Today I feel much different about large corporations today. I have become like many others in this world. Understanding and personally knowing that mega corporations blight our society with greed and corruption.

Can the battle of a few stop these evil people with so much greed in them? Or will people just succumb to the attitude that this is the way it is. I can change it. So they join in the mass confusion of corporate greed mongers.

I like this guys idea that I read recently. Of how pay scales should be mandated for publicly traded corporations.

http://www.halexandria.org/dward668.htm