Capitalist Dreams

Spoken like a true Capitalist. Capitalist is just as dirty a word as Communist in my book. What they want is to keep their bottom line down--that would be those who work for them--the best way to keep profits up is to keep the # of workers down and those left, working harder for less. Those who actually do the work and make their success for them, THOSE who deserve to be paid a fair and living wage, to have health care and retirement programs through their employers and a decent amount of vacation days (time to recuperate from the long hours they work making HIS company successful).

Capitalists have all had help along the way and while a few give credit where credit is due, most want everyone to believe they did it all on their own. Like Romney. His claim to have made it on his own is ridiculous. When you come from a wealthy (at the time he grew up, they were--you don't go to private prep schools if you grew up like I did--no one in my family or my extended family of cousins crew up like that and I would say we were all raised in Middle Class families)....wealth and fame had come to his father and it brought advantages to Mitt that many people are not privy to nor would they even have thought it possible for them to be anything other than be comfortable unless struck by tragedy and unable to do much but survive. Doors open for those people that the rest of us don't even know exist! They get to go to the best schools, they get left out of the drafts, they get introduced to the right people and they get to borrow money from their parents (which is what Romney suggested that our kids do) Franklin Roosevelt saved the nation back then and put safety nets in place so that people wouldn't have to fear what happened to them would happen to their children. Social Security and now Medicare have been two of the most successful government programs ever created but Capitalist would have you believe that these kinds of social programs are actually Socialism with a capital S. Do you know what Capitalism has brought to this country---recession, after recession, one Great depression and a second almost Great depression (2008). And what were they telling all of us little people when they knew what was happening---they were all saying what John McCain said to us: "The fundamentals of our economy are strong"! It was BS, he knew it and they all knew it and suddenly when they couldn't lie their way out of it anymore--they told us the truth. The banks were going under because of poor or illegal practices, Wall Street was crashing for the same reasons and who was going to have to pay the freight? Not them----US! I'm tired of my tax dollars bailing out the Capitalists who are destroying this country from the inside. I'm tired of them blaming social programs when the truth is that without them, they would be going down even faster. Who buys their SHIT? WE DO and if we don't have the money to buy their SHIT, then how will they make ANY profits. We make their SHIT, then we buy their SHIT and they tell us to shut up and like it or THEY will fire our sorry ASSES (pardon my french). Every Capitalist and entrepreneur has gotten help from someone to get started. Their goods and services have been transported on public highways, paid for by US. They have gotten loans from the Small Business Administration (a government agency) or they got start up money from wealthy relatives, friends or business partners. NO ONE....and I mean NO ONE makes it on his own. And I'm tired of them putting down the people who are most responsible for their success. Did you see the debate? Romney seemed very happy at one point and very animated--what animated him at that moment, why, doing what he stated he liked to do best----FIRE PEOPLE. He looked right at Jim Lehr and told him PBS had to go, that he liked Big Bird and he even liked Jim but if he is elected President, he will have to get rid of that HUGE drain on the economy PBS. Jim had a sheepish smile on his face, the one everyone gets when their boss is telling them "Sorry, Jim---just business, nothing personal". PBS is such a small percentage of our annual budget that it's like a drop of water in the ocean. That is who the Capitalists are--who they will always be while they tell us we're fired or that we should still fear Communism (which is not now and I don't think ever was much of a threat). They want us to fear Communism so that we won't watch what they are doing behind the curtain. Who saved the country when it was gurgling down the drain---WE DID! It was our tax dollars that saved the Capitalists who had screwed up the country but didn't want us to know about it! They all want help from the government (which is us) when it comes to deregulation, lower taxes or no taxes--tariffs on foreign goods (that aren't ours) so they can make even larger profits--THOSE are what I call Entitlements. They use entitlement like it's a dirty word because they apply it to the social programs that help everyone else when they need it. But the real Entitlements (with a capital E) are those that the Capitalists get from the government including bailout dollars when they get in trouble. Real capitalism doesn't rely on government help. If a company fails, that's the FREE market at work! Or at least that's what they tell us, until it's one of their companies! Entitlement, as I've said before was always something that applied to Kings and Nobles, who were awarded lands and money based solely on their BIRTH. They were born into entitlement, they got what they believed they deserved while the peasants worked and starved and paid taxes and DIED! That is what the Capitalists in this country and probably everywhere by now believe--- they are entitled to get billions in profits AND government subsidies (our tax dollars). That's the problem.

Do you know that over the last 40 years (my generations working years) the pay for those at the top has increased by over 400% while the rest of us have been struggling from year to year because they told us they could only give us 3-4% increase in wages. I think it's time to crack down on these whiners who are behind this deep recession we are in and who are not lifting a finger to help the country get back on it's feet.

Then there's the Congress, whose leaders decided the night Mr. Obama was elected that he had to be a one term president and the way to do that was NOT WORK WITH HIM. So they haven't. Nothing got through the House except for fluff and stuff and the Senate filibustered everything to keep it from getting to the President's desk. The country is failing, the people need work, they need mortgage help, they need health care and food on their tables and the Republicans are saying we can't help you because we've got to stop Mr.Obama from helping you. Politics TRUMPS doing the right thing! And now they say Mr. Obama is a failed president--but not if you look at his record instead of listening to those who created the mess we're in. They made the mess (along with Bush--who they don't want to take the blame) and now they will do nothing to fix it---that, in my book, is no small thing---THAT is Tantamount to TREASON!

Most Capitalists are atheists like Ayn Rand. Of course, they are not really atheists---their GOD is MONEY! I sometimes wonder about the big Churches--looks like Money is their god too but I could never say that for sure--at least not as sure as I am about who (WHAT) Capitalists worship. They care nothing about the poor among us because they're like the royals of old who, when told the people have no bread to eat famously said----"Let them eat cake". So, they came and took the cake away from them and if these people aren't careful, there will be another revolution against the Oligarchs who run this country! I'd be careful if I were them about those lax gun laws too---but they won't because, they need to sell more to make more MONEY!

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