My God CC, I thought you were a predatory capitalist. This gives me new insight into you and improves my respect for you 100 fold, Kudos for the aknowledgement.
Here's my take on Capitalism if it is to be respected. A person works and saves to start a business. He puts his heart and soul into it and eventually makes it a success. he grows the business by supplying a decent product for a decent price and provides decent jobs for his employees, with decent pay and decent benefits. He then makes a decent profit and supports his family and his community in a desent manner. When the "decent" part leaves, so does my respect for the capitalist. So far as I can see, all forms of decency have left the building, it is all about the bottom line as if there is no tomorrow and they need to make as much as possible as soon as possible and fuck everyone else. This is plutocratic, oligarcic fascism, and it is what is running our country and what Ron Paul wants to turn all our government agencies into, The privatization of America: Private police (Blackwater) Private prisons (Already in progress and operation) Private Medical (Already busy raping and pillaging, wait untill they eliminate medi-care, the hospitals will be throwing people out on the streets) Private charities (Already way underfunded with the burden they have, wait untill they eliminate food stamps and welfare) I just really don't think privatization is the answer.
Common sense and honesty would dictate the parameters, but alas there is little of that left in our society.
What about the enemies of the people right here at home. Do you not suppose those multimillion dollar CEOs are not enemies of the people. You need a course in democracy, remember, by the people, for the people, and of the people.
