I don’t know what to say about these past elections. It is depressing to me, really. Honestly I think that capitalism is about done. The greed that is manifested, the viciousness, the hate-mongering, it is about at its limit. We will either move into fascism, or change to be a better, more fair-minded society that is not hell-bent on putting the blame on the wrong set of people. We will put limits on wealth and take care of those in poverty, OR the system of capitalism is about done. “As ye have done to the least of my brethren, ye have done unto Me.” hmm
What always amazes me is the way that corporate America, those at the top of the business world who make MILLIONS more than most of society could ever dream of, remain anonymous and hidden from view. It’s not President Obama, people, who is taking all your money and jobs!! Don’t you see how those at the top of business are laughing at your pitiful accusations? They don’t care who you blame– it can be the illegal Mexican families in this country, who are here out of desparation and are working harder than any of us– you can blame them if you want. You can blame the government that just came to power a whole 2 years ago. They don’t care who you blame, as long as it’s not THEM, those who are claiming bankruptcy and calling on the Federal govt. to “bail them out,” with accompanying threat of America’s economy falling apart if they lose their … let’s say… posterior… while still paying each other millions (millions) in bonuses and then spending their bail our money on BUYING UP other small businesses — not on helping people to stay in their HOMES (oh no). They’re not losing their homes, and they’re not losing any sleep over it. They’re in control as they always have been and laughing at the rest of us struggling to survive.
Unemployment rates are running around 10 percent right now across the country. Some places are less, some are more. Some are at nearly 25 %. That’s 1 in 4 not having a job in some communities. Are we going to fix this by not letting our elected government provide a more equitable society?? I don’t think so. Let’s open up the free market & see who survives. It ain’t gonna be you, Joe plumber, trying to start your own little business. Those miners are going to re-enter those mines in very unsafe and hazardous conditions, and next time a bunch of them will die– like they did in, was it West Virginia a few years ago? They died. They didn’t make it to CNN filming them being pulled up out of the hole they were in and companies offering them presents. They died. The little guys are dying. The wage gap is ever wider in America, and GROWING. That means those at the top, who remain very much the same people over long periods of time, gain MORE of the total wealth and income pool, while those at the bottom earn less and less, or control a very small percentage of the total income and wealth pool.
Who is MAKING MONEY, making a profit over hiring those illegal workers, some 12 million of them, across our country? Why are they here, really. Who is making money off them? It’s not THEM. THEY work long hours, and don’t complain when they are treated unfairly, because they fear being sent back home. At least here, they are working, earning some wage, and they hope for their next generation to have a better life. They’re not earning a profit, they’re stuck in dead end jobs and can’t complain about working conditions. It’s not really their immediate BOSSES although they certainly profit from their low wage laborers. It’s the owners. Those at the top holding stocks in their company, making the true profits on these workers. Are they even going to suffer if there’s some kind of ‘crack down’ on businesses employing them? NO. Ever heard of the unemployed “reserve army” out there waiting to pick up jobs lost by others? That’s a term from Marx. Karl Marx. No, I am not a communist. With miserable unemployemnt rates, it only HELPS those at the top because there is a literal reserve army of workers ready to pick up where others leave off. Always available. Happy to work and not interested in building coalitions or any such thing, for workers. Hooray for their stocks gaining more & more profit.
And now we have for-profit PRISONS, run by private companies. What does this mean? The state or federal govt. actually pays a company so much PER PERSON, to manage them in their prison system. The ethical problem is, these companies now have a vested interest in keeping those prisons FULL at all times. So much for thinking about society in general and trying to PREVENT crime in the first place. They’re in business to keep it going, now.
anyway, I’m tired, really. I have to turn away from politics because this is how it makes me feel. People are suffering. My students are too young to have any life experience to tell them these things are for real and threatening their own plans and goals. So they want to believe if we just keep power out of the hands of the government, everything will be okay. So now we have tea partier idiots calling for an end to social security, Medicare, and other such federally-funded, federally run programs. Great!! Let’s do away with the state and federal highway systems as well! Perhaps we can go back to local police taking care of their own communities and do away with the federal database system that means they can actually SHARE and benefit from each others’ information. In that case, all a criminal has to do is cross a state line & he’s in the clear. Cool. It is so ridiculous, I can’t even tolerate listening to them on tv. The scary thing is that so many people are rallying behind them! I don’t get that at all.
I am not for either party. There are things that would place me in either party. But I am for a more just society and I think the way to go is to further unite our states to share information and laws, all that stuff. We are a NATION after all, are we not? Didn’t we resolve this issue when we were only 13 states? Aren’t we proud to be a NATION, united, with one government? Where is all this going?
Doctor Grandma 
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