Thursday, November 13, 2008

Selective Capitalism and the burden on the middle class.

It's seems every time things go south for a major corporation, out goes their hands for help. Our car manufacturers are in dire straights, why? Partly because of a failure to keep up with a changing world market, partly with a failure to get off fossil fuels, but mostly from the cost of health care for their workforce. Again we go back to pay me now or pay me later. The next administration must come up with a viable Health care fix. It is paramount.

But why do we insist upon bailing out these companies? I believe it's the cost of being the biggest baddest "Martha Fokkers" on the block. To keep the brilliant minds in the corporations that build our defense technology comes with a huge price tag. This price has been saddled upon the middle class for years. Corporations are just that and end to a means, make money, create wealth for their share holders, and board of directors. If America won't pay, then who will? One of our enemies, of course. It's this fear that has a strong hold in this country. It keeps us right where these huge corporations want us, in a perpetual state of fear and anxiety.

So how do we break this vicious cycle? We quit trying to be the world police and start taking care of our own people. For once we lead by example. We quit being the "Democracy of Hipocracy" and become the gold standard, once again.

We can no longer afford the huge burden of cost plus bids for technology that might not ever work, NEXTGEN is a prime example.

It's obvious that these mega-corporations will not care how much they destroy this country. They will bleed us dry to the very last drop. Karl Marx said it well," Corporate greed will destroy Capitalism", I believe these words to be true. Just as his Utopian idea of Communism will never work because of mankind's inability to allow true equality for all.





So my friends if you don't think we need to step back from the world stage and fix our ailing Democracy from within, then my friends you are sadly mistaken.


Angry Fokker

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