Three disasters, one cause: profit
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Monday, June 14, 2010 21:15
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One economic meltdown, caused by banks, lenders and insurances creating money out of thin air for maximum profit.
The other environmental, caused by an oil company cutting corners and refusing to credibly prepare for disaster.
The third health, caused by for-profit treatment of sick people, bleeding our economy dry and killing people in the process.
So keep sucking up to those nice corporations, folks! They only have YOUR interests in mind! (heh heh heh)
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So what's your plan?
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So what do you suggest governmental control of everything? That's the quickest way to poverty.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret Signy. Nobody is looking out for you. You need to look out for yourself.
Trusting ANYONE or ANYTHING completely is bad Ju Ju.
The government had a HUGE hand in the economic meltdown. Look up Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac. Both government run lending institutions that really screwed us over.
Environmental? Nobody knows what caused the explosion yet. I haven't ruled out sabotage. Plus president Obama gave the Deepwater Horizon a safety award a couple of months before the incident. Plus there are currently MILES of oil barrier sitting in a warehouse but the government after inspecting it and knowing it would help contain the oil so it could be skimmed up decided not to buy it. No explanation was given. The government is letting the oil hit the shores because IMHO they WANT the crisis.
Health? Insurance companies have a big portion of the blame that's for sure, but so do people defaulting on their bills. As well as... wait for it... the government. Many doctors don't want to take Medicaid because the government isn't paying what they've promised to pay.
So what is a one of the common threads among all three of these problems? Government.
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Ronald Reagan 1981.
Guess what nothing much has changed.
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--oops double post---
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Quote:So why are you grabbing your ankles and bending over?
You need to look out for yourself.
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And the nominally Socialist nations are that much better? The Soviet Union failed altogether. China has massive pollution, government-funded ecological and humanitarian horrors such as the Three Gorges dam project, weekly mine disasters, and pretty much no protection for workers. The Social Welfare states in southern Europe are finding that they can't support their social programs on the taxes they collect from the capitalists.
Present a better alternative, please. One that actually has a chance of working in a world of individuals with different goals and philosophies would be nice.
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Oops. Doubletap.
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One that actually has a chance of working in a world of individuals with different goals and philosophies would be nice.
Good luck with that. Probably no system is suitable for everyone at the same time. And any socio-economic system you'd care to name really only works well and stays honest on a local level.
The only way you could please everyone I think is to offer the different systems through local scale business or community model, and have people opt in to the system they want to be part of.
The benefit of having the system self contained business models makes it so there can be multiple systems in a close area. That way opting out doesn't mean leaving town. That may have problems in of itself though, I'd have to think about it.
Over here in America, we have credit unions and co-ops that basically function like a different socio-economic system in the sea of capitalism. I'm talking about a scenario where that type of business model is widespread, even on equal grounds with capitalist businesses.
China did a bad version of it, wouldn't endorse that at all, but they added a capitalist market out of necessity. Do it right, and don't have a police state overseeing the whole thing every step of the way, and that might work.
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Hello,
Advocating anything radically new is advocating a bloody revolution. If power is going to be returned primarily to individuals and cooperatives of individuals then there are many self-interested entities who are going to fight to keep it. And not 'fight' in the polite euphamistic forms of the word.
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I did think about that, actually in my previous post I had a sentence or two that I didn't think this would be possible to establish in a capitalistic nation, but then I remembered those co-ops and credit unions here in America. Those were established non-violently. It's not such a stretch to take a business like that, and build a self-sufficient community around it. That's how the cooperatives work in Spain, as I understand it.
It's possible that human apathy in that sense might work to an advantage. Sure, people with self interest might care about the potential loss of consumers, on the other hand, do it gradually, a drop in a bucket at a time, and by the time people start seeing what's happening, they kind of just have to shrug and realize that's where the market is moving. It could inspire them all to give better service to their existing costumers. :)
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