This is a re-post from one of my other blogs, Gulf South Free Press, posted here because not all of my visitors realize there is another blog with my thoughts and opinions….
Who do you think is a bigger threat to our way of life?
Who Is The Bigger Threat?
For me it is the billionaires because they have the cash to get whatever it is they want from our lay-about Congress and our greedy presidents.
Your thoughts will be appreciated.
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i agree with you. Hugs
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I can muster some agreement.. but to a point. Rich people made our country work.. but also, the lowly fellow or lady on the assembly line made our country work as well. It takes both. The rich invest… and yes, greed IS good. The rich also spend with their investments into the economy.. and the lowly workers manufacture, build, create all that expenditure. The latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th.. it was the industrialization and so-called “robber barons” that forced collective bargaining and better work conditions for abused workers and their working conditions.. and unions (for as much as I am NOT a union person) did help form the middle class in this country. It’s a symbiotic relationship.. one cannot exist without the other. We all know, the best way to hurt a rich person is make them less rich. Can either side go too much to the extreme? Damn right. So.. regulate the activities that need regulation. You look around and see nothing but economic inequities, especially when it relates to the influence you will never have at that level to affect real change. In fact, at this point in time that economic disparity pendulum is indeed swinging a bit away from the so-called “little guy”. But then again, at what point does the little guy cease to become little and become big.. or even sorta big? Then the pendulum swings back in a market counter-balance. Make the rich less richer and us little folks will become poorer.
I disagree….the wealthy are in manipulation of markets and the product is secondary…..monopolies are running ramp[ant there is little actual competition…..the markets are nothing but a dice shoot for the rich and they gamble with the lives of the workers. chuq
Well, then, what’s your solution?
Above my pay grade but a few thoughts….regulations to stop all the manipulations and speculations in the market, limit amount CEOs can get….none are worth multi-million dollar bonus checks, but of course none of this will happen because someone will try to keep corporations as some sort of alter for us to worship upon. chuq
Sounds like you have a lot of free market angst all pent up there, old buddy. 🙂
Sounds like you believe the hype that there is a free market. chuq
Well, as they say, nothing in life is truly free. I often lament that all the wars seem to center around religion, and each religion justifies it’s own interpretation of the Bible to kill each other. In democracies the religion is money… and we fight/start wars for money under some guise of a greater morality. I’ve no answers either. We have another in the making in sending the Navy to placate Israel’s idiocy. Next is boots on the ground… followed by caskets to Dover. The beat goes on.
Yep…I have a post along those lines coming up…..chuq