Unregulated capitalism is the greatest evil ever unleashed on mankind, it has lead to slavery, wars, genocide and the destruction of the planet.
Wars may be started for other reasons but they are often kept going long past their obvious ending point because of capitalism and the money to be made of exploiting young men and women for financial gains. There was a time when we fought wars for the right reasons not so the military industrial complex can get richer, they need America to use the bombs, planes and ships they build so we need them to build more and to hell with the young men and women who lose their lives along the way. Halliburton and KBR made billions off of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan even while they were responsible for American deaths, KBR itself killed many young men buy using cheap and faulty showers which led to the electrocution deaths of our soldiers. There is a good documentary called “Iraq for Sale” that shows just how much Americans were ripped off by these war profiteers.
Health insurance is another capitalist industry that kills over 40,000 people a year in the name of profits. Bin Laden allegedly killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11/2001 and we spend blood and treasure to hunt him down. The decisions of American’s health insurance companies or the lack of insurance kill that many people each month not to mention the people they bankrupt or leave homeless and we reward them with less regulation and government money. I guess Bin Laden and Al Qaeda needed better lobbyists.
Wall Street got involved in the mortgage industry and with no regulation it lead banks to start handing out mortgage to everyone so the could meet the Wall Street demands. It got to the point that the only qualifications people needed for a mortgage was a pulse and how did that work out? The banks collapsed, the government had to bail them out and of course no one went to jail.
The most obscene greed is that of politicians, they spend million a year in taxpayer money to run their offices, pay for insurance, get haircuts, get drunk or laid. They accept millions of bribes (sorry lobbying) from corporations they are supposed to be regulating then when they leave office often go work for the companies they were supposed to protect Americans from.
Did you know that members of the FDA that vote on new drugs often have financial interests in the company/drug they are voting on. That’s right they are allowed to be hired as “advisors” for the drug or own stake in the company. So we’re supposed to trust these people to make the right decision when it means putting or taking money out of their pockets?
Capitalism works when someone is watching but as we’ve seen over and over when those regulators are overworked, done away with and any sector of business is allowed to run free they always manage to do serious damage to the country and end up costing people lives. This doesn’t even include the future damage done to our children by the pollution of air, water and land. Next time a conservative like Sean Hannity makes the snark comment “That’s right conservatives want dirty air and water” say YES, and their voting record proves it. They have voted several hundred times to allow corporations to pollute and destroy the water and earth in the name of profit in the last 8 years alone.
I write this as one of the people Capitalism has ruined, my mothers battle with cancer left us broke and close to homelessness and when she passed away last month we can not even afford a funeral since she passed just 6 weeks after my brother (who was a Desert Storm veteran). WWW.GOFUNDME.COM/STREICH