Good luck man. Keep my name off the site.

On Capitalism;

Let me say I don't think it is wrong to work or try to get ahead. Nor is it a bad thing to try to get more than you need, so you can have some fun. What has been distorted and is no longer talked about is the method of doing so. In other words somehow Greed seems to have become the motivation rather than self improvement. The two are nothing alike.

Some people think that because scum like Carnegie, Ford, Edison, etc.. made great strides forward as far as industrial development and in a very UNINTENDED trickle down fashion caused the lot of the working man to be improved. They should be given credit as great men and held up as an example of how to do "it". I sometimes wonder if I didn't grow up in a parallel universe as it was quite clear to me that these were very bad men that took or stole great ideas and exploited people in ways that we call Human Rights Violations today to make amounts of money that are still obscene even by today's standards of wealth.

Let me reiterate these men were scum, on a par with Hitler. They achieved what they did by dishonesty and the labor of severely underpaid poor that didn't have much of a choice. Many many people died to force the minimal corrections that did eventually take place in this lopsided and perverted system that were achieved only after many years of people dying from the unsafe conditions they had to work in. The conditions we have today, were hard fought gains over 100 years.

These gains are by no means permanent. Listen to the rhetoric of the GOP, they pine for the days of obscene profits and a destitute working class. GB's tax cut is another example. As a direct result of his tax cut to people that didn't even need it, we are as a nation back into a debt that we had finally gotten out of after 50 years, and even had a surplus with which we could have done many good things.

Men like this are not Capitalists in my opinion, they are predators. No one that was "helped" by this tax cut would have had to change a thing in their lives if it never happened, yet the campaign for it was unrelenting. What motivated this but greed. Now Bush isn't going to give the federal work force its raise due to the expense of the War on Terrorism. Again I point out that if he had not cut the taxes on the wealthy the money for both would be there. Wealthy that haven't spent one penny of the money to bring us out of this recession.
To conclude, Greed is not good in any way shape or form. All of the "good" things that allegedly came of it could just as easily come from an effort to make life better for everyone.

A working man opines.


Oh its good to rant!