Friday, July 09, 2021

Pol Pot Returns?

 Capitalism has failed except for Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com and the Walton family and Walmart.  Necessary economic regulatory agencies have been either legislated out or denied the appropriate funding to do their jobs.  More likely those on the receiving side of this enormous wealth have lobbied Washington, DC to allow them to keep the majority of their earnings.  Necessarily a gross imbalance of equity has occurred in America.  The economic system of Capitalism does not work when money does not flow freely at all levels.  Money cannot remain sheltered from taxes in overseas banks, because this stagnancy hinders the free flowing of our money.  Accrued profits must be recirculated back into the system providing jobs, security, and spendable capital for the people of America.  To sock money away in a moldy vault is to render a blow to American Capitalism.  Government always has known the capability of the private sector and corporate America.  They must provide regulation to ensure this imbalance does not happen.  Deregulation of industry has been a cataclysmic mistake, because these industries have failed to police themselves.  Instead the commit grievous crimes spewing toxic chemicals into the environment killing hundreds of thousands of American citizens.  Since its advent in the l960's, C8, a byproduct of the production of Teflon continues to invade water sources and breathable air.  Where are we to hide?  Is it conscionable industries earning billions of dollars responsibly cannot dispose of their own waste?  It is mind boggling this behavior.  The United States military has done similar things failing properly to dispose of toxic solvents on their bases.  These solvents soak into the earth and reach ground water polluting the local water table.  Many have died as a result.  Needless to say the playing field in America has become extremely slanted with most of us falling into the gutter.  Capitalism has failed except for Jeff Bezos and the Walton Family.  We all love Amazon, and although they work hard to overcharge you for simple products, if you are methodical and prudent you will experience a fair shopping experience.  America loves Walmart, because they offer the lowest prices on most products.  Necessarily Walmart was the foreshadowing of the failure of Capitalism.  How can that be?  Walmart is operating in the normal channels of American commerce, but they are a corporate monopoly.  In addition their work ethics for employees are flawed.  Workers are underpaid, overworked, and lack the appropriate benefits of traditional American workers.  At some point corporate America decided America, America's people and workers, do not merit respect as human beings.  A conscience decision was made that American workers were inconsequential.  This is when the decline of Capitalism began.  Growing the Middle Class always has been key in Capitalist theory, and this readily and eagerly was applied to both China and India through the out sourcing of American jobs.  We attempted to grow their Middle Classes, until the bubble burst.  Now we are sitting on the bottom with a broken system.  The railroads have become a major controlling force in American economics, and they benefit no one but themselves.  Still they operate in our backyards.  It has become a travesty, America.  When viewing communist nations and ideology, it begins to make sense their adopted socio-economic system.  The exact things ultimatly which have killed Capitalism in America, telecommunications and a free unregulated media, are what are denied in communist countries.  Is it that they know the ultimate consequences of the mismanagement or failure to regulate these new means of commerce and communication?  Would a communist nation have allowed the insurrection against our Capital on January 6th?  It is the most contentious, bold, and significant political event in American history.  It was an attempted coup of Washington, DC.  The only thing missing was an able bodied compliant United States military.  Could there have been enough Trump followers to have successfully overtaken the United States Capital and its legislators?  If they had been overtaken, with the President still actively in power and control, would the military have accepted orders to overthrow our federal government?  In many other third world nations, it would have been the end of democracy and a free society.  Somehow diplomatically America squeaked out of its attempted overthrow.  It has been a strategically effective coup attempt done on the down low and with a complacent shrug of the shoulders.  Certainly were were fucked before we were kissed, and only now are we looking down at our mangled genitalia.  It is attacks like these that are the most upsetting, because we are not either prepared or aware of the attack.  Rest assured we know now, and the survival of freedom, democracy, and most importantly Capitalism is dependent upon our expedient mitigation of this threat.  The reinstated regulation of corporate America is crucial to this success as is a balancing of the books forcing big business to pay their fair share of tax.  How has it ever become accepted that there is no price to be paid for freedom?  Capitalism is no the Wild West, where the winner takes all of the land, the entire, town, and the Marshall's office.  Necessarily the wealth or rather nominal level of survival must be calculated, planned for, implemented, and protected.  All of these points move us farther toward a communist/socialist philosophy providing a basic wage or at least survival with modest satisfying of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.  The heyday of Capitalism is long gone, and those capable of understanding its functioning have gone with it.  There are no remnants of our Founding Fathers.  Only there is Mitch McConnell, a staid, selfish, republican who cares naught for any American other than  his own damn self.  Trump ran on emptying the swamp, and still it is teeming with traitorous amphibious life.  It the air becomes to challenging in their Washington offices, simply they duck their heads in the muck.