Those of us who grew up during the 'cold war' remember all the school lectures we received regarding the subject of "communism". We were told 'communism' was evil and that communists did not value life the same way we did. We were repeatedly told about the conditions in communist countries and their lack of freedoms and so forth. But there was one other thing that was always part of the discussion - that communist workers were little more than 'paid slaves'. To some extent that was and still is true. In communist countries workers are often little more than 'paid slaves'. The question now is Who are those 'paid slaves' working for these days? American Corporations! You read that right!!! American Corporations that have basically been the foundation for our capitalist system - for which thousands of citizens have died in war to protect - are now all over the world employing communists workers at the expense of American workers.
It is truely amazing and disgusting! These huge multi-national corporations have the cajones to call themselves AMERICAN corporations while at the same time supporting communism all over the world! Which is exactly what this is all about! Corporations that have abandoned millions of American workers in pursuit of cheap wages in communist countries are in effect supporting communism. The fact that some of them go as far as flying the American Flag at their compounds is almost laughable! These corporations couldn't care less about the American people! They are run by predatory capitalists into social Darwinism who believe that making money supersedes everything else. CEOs who have no respect for America, no sense of allegiance, no sense of patriotism to this country at all. If you wonder why our government has had to pass laws against doing business with countries like North Korea, Cuba, and some others - this is why! Because without those laws these corporate entities would be in North Korea right now trying to get slave laborers to exploit at perhaps a few cents an hour! And how many of us have served in the military for years - for what? So we can have our jobs moved to the very nations we are fighting against?
Obviously corporate America has been extremely sucessful in these ventures since the arrival of Fox News and right-wing talkradio. We have a coast-to-coast media industry consisting of right wing talking heads and Fox News that serve as mouthpieces for corporate greed. They also have the GOP which as a political party appears to being completely without ethics, without morals, and with leaders that have no backbone when it comes to these huge corporate dealings. To call Republican politicians "lapdogs' for the corporate world would be an understatement.
If you wonder why the far-left fringe has been so quiet these past years the answer is simple! The far left doesn't have to do anything to bring down the American government or to sell Americans to some kind of alternate ideology. Conservative Republicans are doing that for them! They have Rush Limbaugh who talks so highly about the Apple Corporation and the wonders of our oil industry etc. He seems so proud of Apple and their slave laborers in China where workers often commit suicide to get away from their forced work conditions as reported by the American news media. And of course the oil industry that exports more oil to foreign countries than the amount of oil that is imported to America. While Fox News and Limbaugh continue to blame Obama for whatever configurations take place in the oil market! Those are just two examples! Lying, making up stories, misleading the American public, and the constant protection of the greedy and the selfish are trademarks of right-wing media. The fact is that we have millions of people out of work in America for only one reason! Greed! Well regulated and managed capitalism can work and does work! Anti-government conservatives seem to forget that if it were not for government - we would have NO competition in the marketplace. We would simply have ONE oil company, ONE airline and so on! Competition ONLY exists because it is forced on the marketplace by GOVERNMENT regulation! Anti-trust laws! Without government we would have NO country! We can't go around saying we love America while at the same time working to bring down, dismantle, and shut down our government.
It is government that works to make sure the food you eat is relatively safe! That the street you drive on is stable and safe! That the vehicle you drive is safe to operate and that the driver is licensed. Leave it to conservatives and at some point in time we will be calling a "private-for-profit" POLICE agency to come to your home during a break-in. But only if you paid your bill of course!! Because according the conservatives EVERYTHING must be done for PROFITS! Everything!!!
Well regulated and well managed capitalism intended to serve the interests of ALL Americans does work. But "predatory capitalism" is another thing altogether! These predatory practices whereby corporate leaders (such as Mitt Romney) are willing to turn their backs on Americans for the sake of profits has destroyed the concept of "God and Country" and of 'fair pay for fair work'! It is destroying the sense of America as a community where we all look out for each other! These money worshipping Republican leaders and media talking-heads would deny your children healthcare, school lunches, food stamps, and any and all subsidies that help the poor. Yet these same children are the ones that will later serve in our military and die defending this country. As you read this there are thousands of children living in the streets, under highway bridges, in abandoned buildings, and in their family automobiles. All of it so that a few people at the top can horde their MILLIONS and BILLIONS! Wealthy Americans who are against paying taxes, against the re-distribution of income, against domestic investments, against government, and so on. What exactly are they FOR? They are for ANYTHING that makes them more money! That may be taking their business to some foreign country or sending your kids to a needless war if it will raise the value of their stock holdings!
The fact remains that it takes thousands of hard working people earning tiny little wages so that a few at the top can live like Kings! Herman Caine is very wealthy because hundreds of workers made him wealthy! A dollar can only be in the hands of ONE person at a time! So when we have a system in place that allows a few people to keep millions - then we end up with millions of others with little or nothing! Whether we look at America, or Greece or any other capitalist nation - we find a small group of extremely wealthy people who live like Kings while the poor unemployed masses go without. Yet it is the work of those masses of people that create the wealth for the rich! Capitalism only works if money continues to circulate through the entire construct so that everyone has a chance to earn a living. This can only be achieved through one of two ways! Taxation or investments! It amounts to a re-distribution of income! All of this is precisely what conservative Republicans are against! They are against taxes! And they prefer investing in third world nations for their cheap slave-labor!
In 2010 not one of Americas largest oil companies paid corporate taxes! Not even Exxon the most profitable company that year! You did not hear about it because right-wingers are all puppets of the oil industry! You only heard about how GE did not pay any taxes! That's because GE owned part of the NBC television network and its cable channel MSNBC. The only network that routinely exposes the garbage that is fed to the American people by Fox News and their 'fashion-show' contoured news telling. Beautiful men and women all posing for the camera in their high heels and red dresses in the act of telling the news! Which is why every right-wing talking head bad-mouthed GE while cuddling the oil industry!
Those who have sold their souls to Corporate America have better wake up! Because if you don't we will absolutely lose our country and bring in a wave of social and economic changes that we will all regret! Protecting and promoting GREED will lead to only one conclusion - socialism! Keep in mind that if every greedy CEO were to quit their jobs tomorrow - no one would know the difference. But if every rank and file worker - every firefighter, every truck driver, every nurse, every teacher were to walk off their jobs tomorrow - the American capitalist system would collapse within 72 hours! So lets us stop fooling ourselves! Conservatives may think that screwing over the American worker for the sake of their stock portfolios is somehow going to save capitalism - but it isn't. The private sector works in some areas but overall it has also been a huge failure in protecting the interests of the public. It was the failure of the free market private sector that gave us Medicare! Because after a century it became clear that the private insurance industry could not come up with ways to offer healthcare to senior citizens! It was the failure of private corporations to protect workers that gave us OSHA! Since corporations chose to dump every type of toxin and garbage and deadly compounds in the waters, the air, and landfills of America we had no choice but to create the EPA! So we can complain about government agencies and their regulations but the fact remains that the private sector is destructively worse! It is the failure of the private sector that gives rise to big government. Not the other way around!
Republicans can continue to push the envelope with such things are getting rid food stamps, getting rid of social security, ending medicare, ending Obamacare, shutting the EPA, closing the Dept of Education and so on but at some point in time there will be a social and an economic response to the politics of selfishness and greed. And it will not be pretty!
We all want a successful business where we earn a decent profit, treat others with respect, have loyal customers and embrace the sense of community that we are all here to better each other! That is NOT what conservatism promotes! It promotes greed, selfishness, division, and a sense of social cannibalism. We don't serve American ideals by setting up shop in some foreign communist nation just because it is easier to exploit their uneducated, poor, and naive population! It may seem to be such a clever and profitable scheme NOW! But at some point in time we will all pay the consequences! Conservatives have opposed every attempt that has ever been made to put these corporations in their right place and to get them to pay their taxes and act responsibly. They have opposed every effort that was ever made to protect American consumers, the American worker, and American investor! Just as they got rid of Hillarycare - then did absolutely zero to fix the healthcare system - they are now out to get rid Obamacare! And of course they ALWAYS promise to do something better but they never do because when you are a lapdog for the insurance industry you simply let corporate America run the show! Which is why that $500 ambulance ride back when Hillarycare was being pushed is now $1000. And why the .50 cent aspirin at the ER back then is now more like $2.00. Thank you to the GOP!
The only thing conservative Republicans ever want to protect is their scheming and scamming system that they have erected to con Americans out of their investments, out of their retirements, out of their homes, and out of their jobs! Conservatives may think they are saving the system! What they are actually doing is destroying it for the sake of their stock portfolios! And they call themselves Christians!