Very good article. I didn't read it, but I read your excerpt :-) The problem is that Capitalism in America is broken, and I believe America is heading toward the modern day equivalent of the Feudal system.
A small group of ultra wealthy 'Kings' , their Lords and the rest of us as Vassals of varying degrees. It's quite tragic. And it has happened slowly over the years and now I think we are about to see the end result where the bottom finally drops out so to speak. There was a study done in Trinidad in the last few years about Poverty. On paper Trinidad's GDP is supposed to be about USD14,000 , fairly high. But the reality is that over 500,000 of our 1.3 million population live on or below the established Poverty Line. There are very many things broken in Trinidad, and one of them is that we do not have a 'Free Market' in reality. America lost the 'Free Market' which is supposed to drive capitalism decades ago, but it maintains the illusion. As long as those with more money than you are allowed to control Government Policy (we see the effects in what happened with BP), and this has been confirmed by the Supreme Court that they can do that, you set your nation on a spiral down to a very dystopian future. > No American is comfortable with the government owning the means of > production, but not enough people fear a small number of monolithic > corporations who don't answer to anybody until things get very bad > indeed, if then. Chesterton said "Too much capitalism does not mean > too many capitalists, but too few capitalists." Big corporations are > the fox in the henhouse of small business. They are the ones that can > afford to lobby ceaselessly for legislative privilege, and who in the > end stifle competition in the market. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323039 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
