Miriam,
Perhaps I'm too simplistic.
But let me ramble around a bit and see if I can make my point...or put
my other foot in my mouth.
From my experience, when one person depends on a share of another
persons labor in order to maintain their life style, there can never
be equality. No matter how good a person, or how caring, when the
choice is to determine which of the two will be forced to take a loss,
the person in control...that is the one who is taking part of the
other persons labor, that person will choose to protect themselves and
their families.
Capitalism is fundamentally bankrupt. If we could control Capitalism,
we should have figured out how to do it after so many generations have
passed. Capitalism is unstable. It has highs and lows. But
remember, the lows are far lower for the working and lower classes
than are the highs. And the highs are far higher for the Ruling
Class, and they have very shallow lows. So at best Capitalism is
weighted toward the people at the top.
But having said all that, and not saying tons more, I feel that the
central issue is not Capitalism. The problem is Us, Human Beings.
How do we who care for one another's well being build a system that
protects everyone, while allowing individual freedom?
Carl Jarvis
On 3/30/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I guess I differ from you in that first, although certainly Trump is a
Capitalist, there are humane wealthy people. You can't sum him up by just
saying he's a Capitalist. He's a Narcissist. He has other mental and
emotional limitations which make it impossible for him to function
effectively as a national leader. Ssecond: We could manage in a system of
regulated capitalism so long as our democratic institutions remained intact.
That would certainly be better than an autocratic socialist state.
Miriam
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Bonnie, you can sum him up in one word. Capitalist.
I wonder what it will take to get people to understand that the bottom line
of the Capitalist is Profit and more Profit, while the bottom line for our
survival is People.
Obama made the mistake of thinking that he could compromise with Corporate
Capitalism. Of course he leaned that way, himself. But the fact is that
two such diverse positions cannot compromise. The Capitalist has only
Profit as a bottom line. Less Profit is not in the language of a
Capitalist. More and bigger and more. This leaves no room for People.
People are a resource for the Capitalist. And when People are not being
used as a resource, they are being played as consumers. We are never seen
by the rich as Citizens. They are the Citizens. We are placed on Earth to
serve their needs. And I wish some of my friends could get it through their
heads that these Elite folk really believe that they are where they are
because they come from superior breeding. The truth is that they are just
as phony as the System they embrace.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/29/17, Bonnie L. Sherrell <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Certainly the Donald is an expert at shifting the blame. He's done
nothing but accuse others of doing what he or his cronies did to begin
with. He's a bully and a braggart and a coward from the core of his
being.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the
very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
We gave the Goblin King control of our nation!
