An important part of Sustainable Diversity is highlighting the works of others who are attempting to create a more sustainable and diverse world. One very important way to do this is to help truly understand corporate law. It’s no secret that there was a financial crisis in America in which trillions of dollars of corporate welfare were given to corporations, particularly banks, to “save” the economy. Both Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama joined hands and claimed that shaking the coffers of the American public was the only way to save the American economy. Left with no actual alternative, the American public begrudgingly ignored the giant swaths of money being given to corporate America. The cost was over 4 1/2 trillion dollars and cost more than the Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, moonshot, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq War, Vietnam War, and NASA’s lifetime budget combined. What is worse is that anybody who is educated about this bailout money understands that this was 1. Avoidable 2. Criminal and 3. Still largely unaddressed. Using any logic that a Conservative proponent of private industry would say about the entitlement of the poor on welfare can now be equally used on private, deregulated, “free” market corporations (free only for those who hire politicians apparently). Of course, the bailout is only the most blatant trick used by these exclusive corporate entities bound by no national borders or laws. Tax evasion is something that corporations have had teams of lawyers working on (Click to continue…)