Much of the problems in the US today can be firmly placed on the shoulders of those who believe in and enforce Capitalism over and above everything else. The US is not a Democracy, it’s a Republic. Actually read the constitution and you will not see Democracy in it. Almost no one referred to the US as a Democracy until the late 1800’s early 1900’s, and then it was done so for political reasons, not factual. We were founded and created as a Republic. [Machiavelli wrote , a Republic is just another form of Dictatorship. ] It wasn’t until the late 60’s early 70’s that the capitalistic dribble started to surge and work its way into the political main stream. And even now, what is called Capitalism in the Us is not capitalism in the true sense. Those who champion capitalism , like Ayn Rand, who’s novels “Fountain Head” and “Atlas Shrug” most likely helped launch the US down the road to capitalism by influencing college students then, and still today, wanted a totally free, unrestricted capitalistic world. Sink or swim on your own. You could put arsenic in toys if you wanted, no one would stop you except the market. If the consumer didn’t mind that their children dropped dead like flies, then the company would thrive. If they did care, the company would fall. No outside influence at all. The Quasi capitalistic society we have now is that those with the wealth and power get to conduct business unrestricted when compared to those of the past 40 years or so. They are usually against not only government interference into business , they are against government being an instrument of social responsibilities like welfare and social security. Or that is what they openly say. But when a businesses revenue falls due to arsenic in toys , illegal actions or another businesses ability to out perform their own production , it is those same capitalist who are banging on the doors of congress with their hands out. Wanting laws to protect them, government hand outs for everything from farm substitutes for corporate farms and tax payer money so McDonalds can promote their products overseas to policies that prevent them from every closing down or being held responsible for their actions. Did you know that Home Depot is specifically mentioned as not having to pay import taxes on ceiling fans , in a law that taxes those same fans for others? Or that certain drug manufactures cant be held liable for over a certain dollar amount, I think its $250,000 if a life is lost due to its product? And many times the laws are not enforced equally. Where one person is liable, a corporation may not be because they claim many jobs could be lost. But that same company will then move jobs off shore to save money. Capitalism has created a short and unsustainable growth spurt of entrepreneurs and has made corporations wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. Its also caused the loss of millions of jobs, billions in lost income due to lower wages, loss of health care and benefits for families of workers. An overwhelming influence of a few in how laws and policies are created by our lawmakers. Lowered safety standards, lower environmental standards, lower educational standards, more poor and a greater division of wealth and societal divide than ever before. CEOs are making over 320 times the average wage earners salary, with benefits packages as well as golden parachutes most wage earners can not even fathom. There is a saying “ United we stand, divided we fall” and capitalism as it is in the United States today has done more to make the US fall in ever way , that once made us a super power. We no longer are producers or products the world wants. We no longer are the idolized innovators. If the US was cut off from the rest of the world, we couldn’t even make our own shoes anymore. Due to capitalistic urge to find the lowest wages, and lowest regulations, they have caused the us to to a total shift from the greatest, to a North America super mall who is its own customers. We sell services and foreign goods, to ourselves. We now have to have the lowest prices because the majority don’t make enough money to buy more costly goods. Capitalist are the “Whats in it for me” mentality rather than “ for the greater good” mentality that made the US strong. I can not imagine any corporation today turning their auto manufacturing plant into a tank building plant because the government ask them to just for the greater good. It would take hundreds of billions of dollars and long term promises to get them to even consider it. And even at that, the corporation wouldn’t keep their promise. I have nothing against corporations making profits, and the strong survive in business. I think people who work hard, or just get lucky, should be entitled if they get rich, to do what they want, within reason though, and if a fair way. A corporation shouldn’t be treated as an individual when it comes to political campaign donations and political influences, but not treated as an individual when it comes to taxes and litigation. Or corporations who get government hand outs of billions of dollars each year while they challenge the same thing for non wealthy Americans. And the fact that someone with wealth, corporate or individual, has more influence on political lawmakers than others, is just wrong. Almost all of the media that US public gets is owned by as few as 6 corporations. Those same corporations wield an enormous amount of influence on our world today. The President, Congress, Governors , state lawmakers and even the FCC have allowed many of these corporations , and others, actually write the laws and regulations they have passed and as suppose to enforce. Does any of this sound like its in the best interest of our nation as a whole? I for one do not think so.

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