SBA

Yet another case in  Fast Food Nation  that displays the government sleeping with franchisees. A governmental agency called Small Business Administration or SBA is supposed to finance new and up in coming restaurants.  SBA was supposed to give these new restaurants a fighting chance, by loaning them money. These loans of course coming from tax payers’ pockets instead weren’t going to small restaurants but to already huge established restaurants like Berger King. Burger King was experimenting in locations and instead of using their own money the government paid for it and when the experiments failed the restaurant Mongol didn’t lose a penny but the tax payers did.  

This type of corruption is in excusable. The whole point of SBA is for the average Joe or Jane to use the free market to their advantage, yet the King of Burgers is using the agency for a win, win situation. Why is no one being sued for this abuse in the system? My law makers aren’t for the people but for the corporations, but tax payers money is for the government?

uniformity

The concept of making something one or the same. Kroc was the pioneer for this idea! It came to him during the beginning of freezing technology. With his fast growing empire pre cooking then freezing the French fries kept the fries the same no matter where someone went. Trust in the same taste insured Ray Kroc’s success. With that simple idea uniformity and a system that would keep customers coming back for more.

Anytime I got to any food chain anywhere display uniformity, before the book I hadn’t realized the word or why every restaurant looked alike, along with their food. Thinking about it, that goes for any  and all chain markets I step into. I feel a sense of having been there before even if I haven’t. I feel a trust with the company that makes me return to the company. It’s a wonderful tactic, humans do run on trust and how long someone or something has been in one’s life. McDonalds  being in my life for as long back as I can remember, I have never felt anything but good vibes for McDonalds until an education was introduced  about McDonalds . The problem with McDonalds it is so deeply rooted within the American culture and so it is a trusted franchise my millions all because every restaurant anyone walks into is essentially the same one they had walked into before the last.

Coble Bill

In fast food Nation Eric Schlosser brings the coble bill rising to the table. This entry in FFN brings two important subjects. The word “encroachment” and the bill came along. Both are important in history because in the time period companies like subway are taking advantage of their franchisees.

The bill would “place limits on encroachment, require good cause before a contract can be terminated.(101)”  In this era the fast food industry started to get their unfair advantages over their franchisees . They would build their companies close together and the same store would be competing against the same store. The only problem about that is, that the franchisors would profit and reap the benefits of the overall profit while the managers of the store would be competing over something that  essentially has the same thing. The bill would give some power to the franchisees who were being put in very difficult, unjust odds. But a little justice in the system of fast food is never an easy battle. The battle was lost since the government is sleeping with the meat industry. The government ‘for the people by the people’ called it’s people “whiny butts who came to the government instead of taking responsibility for their own business mistakes.(101)” So the bill to enhance the common Joe’s chances to make it big was torn away because just actions are for “whiny butts.”

Shoch Doctrine

Shock therapy is a technique in which a government uses to place a program and/or system that the citizens wouldn’t accept or tolerate if situations were ‘normal’. This “therapy” session is ideal for a free market in which the government runs hand and hand with businesses. The shock doctrine by Naomi Klein gives examples of such therapy in the U.S back in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. The government was able to build and run whatever program they wanted because of the new blank slate of land where all the citizens were displaced.  

I found the concept of shock therapy a very thrilling and genius way of controlling. It is a cruel way of control over a government’s people but still very effective.  The U.S thrives off of techniques just as or worst than shock therapy.  Our government is run by the free market and benefits off of it. To eliminate such practices would the U.S be so wealthy or well off as it is? If the U.S didn’t take control and use unjust, immoral, ‘satanic’ practices the American people wouldn’t have what we have now. I doubt that the American people would rather pay for a product that can be cheap because of abusive situation instead of paying a shiny penny for just and moral situations. I propose the American conscious would crumble along with it’s economy if that were to happen.

'stroking'

In Eric Scholosser’s Fast Food Nation he brings up a managerial technique called “stroking.” The technique is almost magical in it’s effect toward people. It’s supposed to keep the employees emotionally happy and connected to their work without paying them more. Telling employees their doing wonderful jobs and their such hard worker’s is a corporate manipulation, a vial, that is used not only on the lowest level of business world but the higher corporate level as well.

Scholosser brings up a convention that stroking was used. In this convention extremely successful and famous people were paid to talk to managers of various companies. The stroking or this pep talk filled them with self-confidence and a ‘go get ‘em ’ attitude.

I see stroking as not only manipulation tactic but a celebration of mediocrity. Not that being the lowest employee in a corporate latter is so bad, but to keep people in a zone where there is no encouragement to grow. I can even understand why no one wants their job to be taken by a subordinate, but to not be fair, in having the hardest working people in the business being so ill-treated, namely their pay checks, is criminal!

Food Inc

  "A culture that just views a pig as, a pile of proto plasmic, inanimate structure, to be manipulated by what ever creative design the human can foist on on that critter, will probably view individuals, with in it's community, and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain, and disrespect and controlling type of mentality." 

      In the documentary Food Inc. an organic farmer Joel Salatin brings up how the society we live in is a very cruel one. He realizes the contradictions and hypocrisy that the government and meat industry presents. In his interview I believe he hints to our possible demise of the American people if we don't change our system.
         The quote is a very powerful one for me, it hints on the right's that people and +animals are deprived of. People now dont realize that our ancestors prayed for and thanked the animals that they killed so they can eat another day. So many people are species