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Brain -> Capitalism will make you sick (9/1/2010 8:52:17 PM)
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Capitalism puts profit ahead of everything else and there is no second priority. Under such a system people suffer because higher profit is demanded.
Since all economic systems have their weaknesses why should we blindly follow capitalism? Why can't we switch to a system that puts people ahead of profits?
Capitalism will make you sick
PERVERSE PRIORITIES ARE UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY AND DESTROYING OUR SENSE OF HUMANITY AND COMMUNITY...
While the recent recall of more than a half billion eggs, in the wake of some 1,470 Salmonella infections, has triggered a renewed focus on the dangers posed by factory farms to human health and to the environment (see videos below), the discussion stops short because factory farms are but one symptom of the deadly consequences of a perverse ideology whose sole purpose is to expand the already obscene wealth of less than 1% of the population at the expense of a healthy economy, community, the environment, peace and the very ability of our planet to sustain life...
The richest 2% own more than half the household wealth in the world. The richest 10% hold 85% of total global assets and the bottom half of humanity owns less than 1% of the wealth in the world. The three richest men in the world have more money than the poorest 48 countries. It is the Koch brothers who, like their John Birch Society father before them, have poisoned the nation's discourse by covertly funding the pseudo grass-roots "Tea Party" movement, whose uninformed followers simply do not realize that theirs is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian agenda that is intended to solidify corporate wealth and power at their own expense.
The goal of billionaire sociopaths, like the Koch brothers, Richard Mellon Scaife and Rupert Murdoch, is a plutocracy; that is, government of, for and by the wealthy --- a government which masquerades as a democracy…
Corporate crime pays
But when you add health care insurance, farming, outsourced manufacturing, the military-industrial complex, a brutal corporate empire, and coal, uranium and oil extraction to the Wall Street/politician mix, what you find is a potentially deadly crimino-pathogenic environment all flowing from a twisted plutocratic philosophy that elevates the riches of the wealthy few above the health and very lives of the great bulk of humanity. 53 year old Philippe Padieu of Frisco, Texas was sentenced to 45 years in prison after he was convicted on six counts of having unprotected sex with women without informing them that he was HIV positive. Yet, when allegations surface that thousands of Americans have been knowingly infected by deadly bacteria and viruses (including E-coli, salmonella, MRSA, swine and bird flu & bovine spongiform encephalopathy aka "mad cow disease") as a result of the filthy conditions of and methods applied by factory farms, as depicted in Food, Inc. (see trailer below), the corporate titans at the base of the factory food chain, at most, face fines that can be written off as part of the cost of doing business.
Age of absurdity
The corporate message is that a Medicare-for-all system that cuts out the unnecessary parasites (health insurance companies, their CEOs and Wall Street investors) is bad and that a system that puts profits before people is good --- a message which succeeds not because of its intrinsic truth but because 95% of what Americans see, hear and read comes from either hard-right ideologues or from a corporate-owned media. Both have worked in tandem to convince the victims of toxic capitalism that democratic socialism, an equitable economic system which stresses our common, humanitarian interests and public co-responsibilities to one-another and to a sustainable planet is evil and that unregulated monopoly capitalism, which, while cloaked by the myth of a "free-market," sacrifices all to the unbridled greed of the privileged few is good.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8002#more-8002
Over the past month, this one source of toxic waste merged with another, making it difficult to determine precisely how much of a 7,722 square mile "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico (slightly smaller than New Jersey) is due to agricultural run off and how much is due to another egregious corporate crime, the deadly BP Deep Water Horizon explosion.
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