The Saywot Blog

– There’s not enough cash to go around
– There’s not enough cash to go around for all the good causes and noble pursuits people find worthwhile and worthy of support.
Local schools need money for extra stuff so the little kiddies won’t be deprived excursions/field trips/sporting equipment/concert halls/overseas exchange tours etc etc etc
Community groups always have their hands out begging for funds to upgrade this or build that.

But at the first mention of a slight raise in taxation there’s headlines, editorials and panic in the markets – what is this fundraising caper if not a different form of tax ?

You buy your raffle ticket from the spotty kid at your front door, or drop a few coins into the tin being shaken by the old-age pensioner at the shopping centre and move on – you’ve paid your tax and can now spend your money on whatever takes your fancy.

Here’s the rub, where did that donation go ? Have you ever scoured the notices in your local paper to see who was the lucky winner of the 30cm TV or seen an article extolling the virtues of the new playground constructed through community funding ? – not likely (I do, but I’m not your normal donor)

“No taxation without representation” – you don’t know what happens to the money you donate through this method and I bet there’s no way to get your money back, you could track down that acne-ridden kid and shake him/her down but they all look the same.

I was tasked recently to find out if there was something amiss with a scheme being promoted by a major donut producer as an easy way to grab some of these non-governmental tax-dollars

So I should just write about the evils of eating deep fried sweetened processed flour with added sugar and fats
– I will

Donuts are really unhealthy, they make you fat and eventually kill you. They serve no nutritional purpose and as such eating them is imprudent and counter-evolutionary

But I suspect I was being asked whether using this product was in some way politically incorrect.

Firstly – it’s those Krispy Kreme donuts
They have a fundraising scheme
I think it’s a way they shove more of their over-priced muck down the throats of already obese children and adults more quickly

But on to the PC business

In the United States this company gave donuts away to celebrate the inauguration of the new President – Barack Obama

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) is honoring American’s sense of pride and freedom of choice on Inauguration Day, by offering a free doughnut of choice to every customer on this historic day, Jan. 20. By doing so, participating Krispy Kreme stores nationwide are making an oath to tasty goodies — just another reminder of how oh-so-sweet “free” can be.

http://investor.krispykreme.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=359127

Fair enough, get people into the shops and bung a cake into their gobs, once, they’ll probably come back later for some more – it’s how heroin dealers work after all and their marketing has always been fairly successful

But what I did find when researching this is …

The American right-wing have called for a boycott of Krispy Kreme because

KRISPY KREME CELEBRATES OBAMA WITH PRO-ABORTION DOUGHNUTS

when I say American I mean the USA (not the Canadians nor Central or South American)
and by right wing I mean the American Life League
In a nutshell, American Life League is a 501(c)(3) organization co-founded in 1979 by Judie Brown and nine other dedicated pro-life Americans.
– a no contraception or euthanasia pro-life bunch of right-wing Catholics and when I hear any pro-life propaganda I can always hear this in the back of my head (why I have ears on the back of my head is different music for a different kitchen)

If you’re so pro-life, do me a favour: don’t lock arms and block medical clinics. If you’re so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
Bill Hicks

Gone, but not forgotten (He may not be everyone’s cup of tea, very confronting and quite crude)

But I digress, it’s the Kreme Monster I have to face

I can’t find out anything much more about it, apart from the fact that they gave away donuts on Obama Day and Obama is pro-choice so the right-wingers are arguing that a child dies every time you eat one of their delicious, cream-filled artery-cloggers.

Or have I been lulled into a false sense of security by this lack of research materials
– can anything else be read into goings-on in the Krispy Kream Korporation ??

http://wikizap.mobi/enuncyclopedia/Krispy_Kreme

I suspect not, they’re a big business that will gouge a buck out of any crevice they can stick their sugar and cinnamon-encrusted fingers into. They’re only as evil as Microsoft or an oil company or a tobacco company under most capitalist democracy they’re unaccountable and can do whatever they like – sure every decade or so an executive of a big company will spend a few weeks in a minimum security institution for stealing a couple of billion dollars from the people who had entrusted to them their last savings to invest in a better retirement or something. Apart from that the free market implies they’re free to chop down forests, pollute waterways, oppress native populations and pay minimum wage to over-worked employees because, well, ‘that’s how business works in the real world’

Have a look at this, a fine film – “The Corporation”

Ok what have we learned today, children ?

– if you want well planned and well funded community projects raise income tax rates, don’t send kids door-to-door selling stuff to strangers (or park old people in front of supermarket doors selling raffle tickets)
– Krispy Kreme donuts kill unborn children (and will lower the life expectancy of anyone who eats them) and the US Christian Right want them to be boycotted as part of their scheme to undermine Roe Vs Wade
– Bill Hicks is hilarious
– Corporations are amoral and must, I repeat MUST, do everything in their power to maximise the returns to stockholders.

Now get back to your work