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Capitalism has never been a great system. It helps only those at the top who benefited directly or indirectly from the hierarchy that emerged from Slavery, putting whites at thetop and blacks at the bottom. It favors, perpetuates, and preserves white privilege, and is significantly hampered in its potential by the participation of Conservatives and their bigoted, racist Dixie-think. Anytime a system includes bigots in decision-making, policy-making, influential positions, or in positions of power and influence, it is severely FLAWED.
Can you explain to us the millionaires who play Sports, Rap Music, Celebrities, Oprah Winfrey, President Obama and the First Lady are at the bottom?
Have you taken a look at who is running for President on the Dems side......or are you even looking?
Steve Jobs's resignation as CEO of Apple offers an opportunity to reflect on a great success story of America and capitalism. Where else, and under what other system, could someone without a college degree, whose biological father, a Syrian professor named Abdulfattah Jandali, gave him up for adoption, build a company so successful that it that amassed a greater store of cash than the U.S. government and annual revenue approximately twice the annual GDP of the entire country of Syria? My first home computer was an Apple Macintosh bought in the 1980s, and I've put out at least four different newspapers and four different Web sites on Apple machines.
Capitalism always leads to social unrest and revolution.
I'd say that too much capitalism is the problem. The most successful societies have a healthy mix between capitalism and socialism. Unfortunately, the U.S. does not. The lack of balance is what creates social unrest.
Capitalism has never been a great system. .............
well the true colors emerge
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"A Marxist/Fascist/Liberal begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of socialism, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism." Saul Alinsky
I'd say that too much capitalism is the problem. The most successful societies have a healthy mix between capitalism and socialism. Unfortunately, the U.S. does not. The lack of balance is what creates social unrest.
That is not capitalism. That is a mixed economy with elements of capitalism and socialism.
it feels like so. 25 years ago communism went bankrupt due to: centralized government, income re-distribution (hard workers and slackers get the same pay), political repercussion, miserable quality of life.
Issues rampant with the capitalist regimes: big government, big corporation lobbying government, widening income gap, political cover-up, scandals, gmo foods, rotten medical system.
All you post about big government and such is socialism creating in like cancer to take us down; not Capitalism.
This is the thing that people don't understand. They think that what we have now, or really what has ever existed is "capitalism"?? Capitalism is an uncoerced free market. All the tinkering of the economy by the state and the FED is completely mucking up what capitalism is supposed to be, and then you hear people blame things on "unbridled capitalism"...like...WHAT???
If people think this is capitalism, no wonder they're more sympathetic to socialism. It's like having a simple recipe for steak and somebody decides to throw in ketchup and ice cream, completely ruins it, and then people say that steak sucks.
And make no mistake about it: every single Dem and Rep would starve to death in real capitalism.
Neither side believes in freedom as believing in an involuntary state makes that impossible.
They love touting their version of "capitalism" under various state controls especially the mainstream Right/Cons/Repubs.
In reality they are chicken**** cowards who would soil their panties if they had to truly compete.
Because history. When the gap between the haves and have nots becomes too great, it leads to social unrest and revolution.
America has always had this......yet our country has never exploded. More like when Americans think others should provide them all they need in life, is when we have social unrest. Then the un working class burn down businesses owned by people benefiting from capitalism.
Presidents who push hate and talk about their citizens in other countries cause unrest.
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