lowing wrote:
CameronPoe wrote:
I'm reading 'The Grapes Of Wrath' at the moment. It is very pertinent right now. Great book and I'm only just over halfway through. The problem is that the free market capitalism the elite designed is horribly flawed and the US system is skewed a bit too far to the right. Any system that is not designed to sustainably and consistently operate in the best interests of society needs to be sorted out. The problem is that humankind and politicians never learn from past errors - I'm reading a book set in the 1930s and the modern day version of what it documents is happening again right now some 70 years later. Globalisation has brought benefits but it has also made the economy an unwieldly, barely controllable, dangerous beast. Every human being should be entitled to employment. The system as it stands does not ensure this. That needs to be addressed. Noone can hedge for one or two years of continued unemployment or bare sustenance employment, let alone raise a family in such conditions.
In a word: we need an economic revolution.
On the vote issue the US has become a bit overblown. The larger a nation becomes, the less representative and accountable the government becomes and the more prone to corruption/whims of rich special interest groups it becomes.
I am cherry picking here Cam but I am stuck on your choice of the word "entitled"..as in "every human being should be entitled to a job'.
In my very humble opinion, it is this mindset of entitlement over earning that has gotten us into this mess in the first place. Capitalism works, it is those who do not contribute to it and still withdraws from it that is sinking our ship.
Perhaps he means there should be no discrimination as to who is allowed to work or not. Some people, it's like this; I think the government should have put restrictions on corporations moving over seas as that, at least for a while takes away those peoples right to their unemployement. Sure, you can say, get a education, find a white collar job, but there can only be so many of those. There is a massive disconnect between the realities of our population, and the assistance of the feds in outsourcing jobs. There is a shrinking job market. There is a constant inflow and presence of a underclass that exists outside normal counting, that nibbles into the job market that remains, that does not pay into the system as the rest of us do, and that consumes a high porportion of services. In effect, I am being robbing of my entitlement to a country of law and order.
This leads back to the question, what about our government, exactly is there to have faith in? Is not a major part of the American Dream and honest dollar for and honest job, law and order and security that fraud and lies are not the very foundation of our system?
I'm imagining a future where Walmart has a division similar to Blackwater. Where the B of A logo is part of our flag.
Madness. Cam, saying our grandchildren will be paying for this is an acknowledgement that this is an insidious situation that cannot be tolerated. We have a duty to ensure that there is something that resembles George Washingtons America, not the corporatecleptocracy it is now. As for the rest of the world, perhaps there are patriots out there who will help us. Patriotism is no longer about nations in this cesspool of globalization and consolidation of power, it is about free people looking out for each other.
