vincentML -> RE: Brexit Vote Results (7/2/2016 2:08:15 PM)
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Staleek . . . quote:
The good old days of working down a mining pit like your father and your fathers father and your fathers fathers father are also long gone. People start out and, whilst it is difficult, as long as you're reasonably connected from a young age you can be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a politician, or a professor. Of course a lot of people fall through the cracks, and we need socialism to help address that, but denying the free market and capitalism hasn't improved life for humankind is obviously wrong. It may be helpful to look at some of the precepts of neo-liberalism: 1. completely unregulated markets 2. reduction of size, financing, and power of governments 3. privatization of social institutions 4. destruction of the effectiveness of organized labor. 5. free movement of investment cash 6. the commoditization of labor to reduce Corporate costs 7. the privatization of social services, of public education, and health care. 8. the destruction of our welfare system 9. anything to shift costs away from corporations. 10 Lest we forget, the stashing of corporate and private money offshore to avoid taxation. These are the controversies we have been dealing with in the States. Our prison systems have been privatized and monetized. Our tax supported public schools are underway to privatization with corporations dipping into the public till and taking money from our city/suburban schools, and of course the big Kahunas: old age pensions and health care are under attack. Private corporate pensions have already been pretty much destroyed by the 401K con job. I guess we need to examine exactly and to what quantity life has been improved for mankind and at what cost progress. And at what privilege for the survivors and accumulators. Sorry if I repeated myself in my listing above. I suspect I did. btw, Hillary is a dud, her hubby is a doddering fool, and Trump is a clown, but Trump stands to gain in this rebellion against neo-liberalism. Gack!!!
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