The Time Warner Cable-Comcast Merger

There's a good chance you are a customer of one of these huge corporations, either Time Warner Cable or Comcast. I am. I received an email from that company and before I even opened it, I set out what I figured was in it: "This merger is for our customers, it will benefit you, blah, blah, blah." Remember folks, everything in American business is about selling something, legit or not, including how terribly concerned super wealthy CEOs, other executives and big stockholders are about you, their customers. Let me tell you this folks, this merger, if approved, is about ONE THING and only ONE THING, MONEY! Money for some of the wealthiest people in the country and in the world. It is not about ANYTHING ELSE. "If," and I seriously doubt this will result, it truly benefits the rest of us in any way, that will be pure coincidence. Time Warner Cable was once part of Time Warner, but it has been independent for a few years. Comcast, the largest media company in the world, as well as the largest cable provider in the U.S., owns NBC/Universal.*

Both Comcast (its cable, internet and phone services) and Time Warner Cable (it also has cable, internet, and phone services) have poor customer service ratings from consumers. Cable companies have been raising prices for years, much to the anger of their customers, and if this merger is approved, with more concentration in that industry, watch out! "We have to raise prices, because we're working on new innovations and ...." The thing is, the owners don't want to pay for any of this, they want you to pay, with extra profits tacked on for them, just to make things worth their while. Nope, no "just the cost of doing business" for these greedy bastards. You know, they won't do anything without being able to make enough money to circle the globe at least twice with hundred dollar bills, but you're supposed to work for less, and don't go complaining about it either, you moocher! Remember too, when you hear the term, "corporate profit," that likely has little to do with you, except how the execs are holding down your wages and/or benefits, but it has loads to do with how much more the wealthy are raking in, further adding to the concentration of wealth with the top earners.

A few years ago, the banking fee, by Bank America, if I remember correctly, was stopped because Americans finally took action. Wealthy interests and corporations have taken over our country. To get it back and to get some balance restored will require action, not just complaining to one another. The big money people count on us taking no action. They know people complain and that many Americans hate their guts, but they also count on Americans whining and bellyaching, but in the end, that we will sit on our asses and do nothing, which is what happens in the overwhelming number of cases. What will we do in the case of the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger?

* NBC/Universal owns: NBC, NBCSN (NBC Sports Network), the Golf Channel, Telemundo, "E" (Entertainment Television), USA Network, Syfy Channel, CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo Channel, the Weather Channel, Universal Pictures, numerous theme parks in the U.S. and overseas, and several other entities.

WORD HISTORY:
Merge-This goes back to Indo European "mezg," which had the notion of "dip, place in water, dive." This gave Latin "mergere," as the "r" sound replaced the "z," in a process called "rhotacism." The general meaning, however, remained the same. English borrowed the word from Latin in the first half of the 1600s and its meaning gradually changed to "to join, to combine," perhaps from the notion of "joining an object in liquid." The derived "submerge" retains the original meaning of "dip, dive, plunge."