The bias of the media regarding politicians is the same bias
it has towards sports teams: they don’t care who wins so much as they care about keeping you watching. They’re not so interested in making the proper calls as
they are keeping the game interesting.
I’d rather you wiped your ass with the American flag than
trample on the ideas it’s supposed to represent.
The difference between Democrats and Republicans is if you
disagree with a Republican he’ll call you anti-American and if you disagree
with a Democrat he will call you a racist.
Fear is the tool by which you are manipulated and there is
an industry that has turned such manipulation into an art form.
If instead of pointing out the corruption in the other party
the Republicans and Democrats worked on cleaning up their own houses, each
would have less occasion for finger-pointing.
Remove the profit motive from the arms manufacturing and the
world will know peace.
A captain goes down with the ship, a rat deserts it. You
cannot refer to someone as a captain of industry if he manages to escape the
business he was in charge of while it goes under. Such a person should be called a rat of industry,
not a captain. And if he manages to leave the sinking ship carrying with him
great amounts of wealth then he is something even worse than a rat, he is a
pirate of industry, a marauder, a plunderer, a brigand.
That which the media tells you is patriotism is not
patriotism. It is the shrill, amplified voice of institutionalized greed. It is
the insatiable need for greater profit and wealth to the exclusion of any other
concern.
We have developed a just-in-time philosophy regarding
workers as well. 40 hour weeks? Nope. Whatever is required. 70 hours one week,
and take the next week off. Unless we need you. You’re on call 24 hours a day.
They may say people are their greatest resources, but they
are still just a resource, on the same level as raw material or machinery. In a
corporate environment, human beings are reduced to numbers on a spread sheet,
cogs in a machine that cares more about what it is creating than who is
creating it. Corporate interests are given primacy over human ones, both the
consumers and producers. The consumers are prompted to buy things they don’t
need while workers are made to live lives that focus around production.
Why do we decide to promote corporate interest over human
ones? It is because corporations make the rules upon which society functions.
And when corporations make the rules upon which society functions, then they
become the de facto government.
Perhaps it is time to take the power of appointing Supreme
Court justices away from the President and give it to the House of
Representatives, since they obviously have too much time on their hands. Doing
so would avoid them doing nothing for 10 months as was the case with President
Obama’s appointee. It would avoid every single presidential election coming down
to the candidates position on abortion. Then we could give the president the
power of veto.
Why would you vote for someone who is anti-government? Isn’t
that comparable to appointing a socialist as the CEO of your company? Wouldn’t
it be wiser to vote for someone experienced in the processes of government, who
believes in the system?
Chelsea Clinton should be the poster child for the
inheritance tax.
Capitalism is a system of economics that rewards the work of
Adam Sandler exponentially more than it rewards the work of an electrician, a
social worker, a teacher, an EMT, a fireman, or an LPN. A just society would
reward those who clean toilets more than it does those who poop outside of
them.
The media is unwilling to discuss Donald Trump’s mental illness
because it is one they share.
Free market capitalism wouldn’t survive a year without
government intervention. The capitalists rely on government to train their
workers, enforce their laws, and fight their wars. Their businesses constantly
need saving from the bankruptcy that their endless greed brings about.
When people talk about the freedom of the market what they
mean is the freedom of money, and what that means is the freedom of people who
have money.
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