2.1.        The Company Store story is about people working for the only company on this isolated planet located somewhere in another galaxy.  Everything they needed or could want was sold by the company through the company store.  They earned almost enough money, working for the company, to buy the things they needed and were given credit to purchase anything they wanted.  Soon all of the people were in debt to the company store.  Hence the expression: "I owe my soul to the company sto’".  The owners of the company wanted more money so they gradually raised the prices in the company store.  

2.2.           There were no unions, so when the laborers complained and asked for more money, the company just fired them. Any who quit working or got fired were banned from working for the company and became the bums and criminals of the highly publicized underclass.  Highly publicized to instill fear in those still working.  Those of this underclass who refused to eat out of garbage cans or beg for food were forced to live by stealing from the laborers.  The owners repeated the price raising cycle until the company had all the laborers working at minimum cost.  The laborers were essentially slaves and the company was producing maximum profits for the owners.  

2.3.           The modern company has Unions.  The pendulum swings the other way.  Union leaders must continue to get more money, more benefits, and less work for their Union members or loose their jobs as Union leaders.  The threat of, or actual, strike is used very effectively by democratically (?) run Unions to acquire more compensation while providing no increase in productivity.  

2.4.           This on-going battle has produced some strange results besides inflation.  In some cities the garbage collectors with a very strong Union earn more money than secondary school teachers!  Construction workers make more than scientists.  Situations like these are disincentives to education.  The less educated the population, the less effectively democracy works.  To back away from education is to subvert democracy.  The education of slaves has always been forbidden as a means of maintaining slavery.  To back away from education is to back away from freedom.  To cut education funds is to back away from education.  Since this reduces the effectiveness of any democracy and reduces our freedom from control by media propaganda, it (cutting education funds) should be outlawed by the Constitution.  These constitutionally mandated increasing funds for education should include funding for on-going and expanding constitutionally mandated research to continuously improve education, education methods and education effectiveness.  

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