Call it socialism, strengthening the safety net or whatever. Policies must be put in action that will temper the excesses of capitalism and rein in the power of corporations to do what they want, wherever and whenever they want and to keep themselves flush with cash.  Since Friedman wrote nearly 40 years ago, the U.S. has become an untenable chasm between the luxury of the rich and the despair of the poor. No corporation has stepped up with a conscience or moral fortitude to change things. And they won’t unless they’re forced to.  Don’t look for that to happen because they’ve always got a few million lying around to grease the palms of the whores we elect.

Folks, if you didn’t read the rest of it, it doesn’t get any better than what you do see.  DIck doesn’t hate capitalism, he hates Democracy.  What he desires is not socialism, it’s communism:

….a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

In socialism, it allows for groups to own assets.  It doesn’t necessarily define what those groups are.  With the current business models in the United States, this already happens.  These socialist models are called “corporations” who are owned sometimes by millions of people.  Dick doesn’t like corporations.  Dick doesn’t understand that corporations, such as Microsoft, which was founded by Bill Gates, use the socialist model in order to raise the capital they need to expand.  As the corporation profits, so do those people who became a part of that socialist corporation.  Dick therefore truly only likes the only alternative to socialism and capitalism.  That is communism.  In communism there is no individual ownership of assets.  Therefore, there is no room for corporations to exist.  Therefore Dick would be in fifth heaven.  Only real life problem is the paper Dick writes for would be owned by the government and he would be shot dead for challenging the government.  Think North Korea or Cuba if you want an image of Dick’s utopia.  They have no corporations in those places that are not exclusively part of the government.

Second problem presented here is the fact that Dick uses a huge corporation as his bully pulpit to attack my values hundreds of miles away by saying capitalism sucks and communism is good.  I don’t have that bully pulpit of a cushy job working for a ruthless corporation to spread my word to people who don’t want to hear it.  I just blog for free and hope it sticks with people who share my values, or even better, think enough about them to possibly reconsider some of theirs.  However, either way, and even if you totally disagree with what I have to say, you’re getting what you paid for here.  I don’t pay for Stephen Dick’s crap.  I pay to read the obits and arrest records.  It just so happens I can’t get those without getting Dick’s pro-communism anti-American BS pushed on me by the very vehicle he stabs in the back.

I don’t like CNHI.  Their ethics in how they handled the local paper take-over were deplorable and several of my friends got hurt in the process.  Included in that group, my eventual wife.  However, from observing the last 232 years of world history, it is easily proven that the United States is by far the most philanthrophic group of people on the planet.  Bar none.  So, somethings amiss somewhere in Dick’s thinking.  Maybe he just hates Bill Gates?  Well, the point Dick’s making is that people like Bill Gates don’t voluntarily help the poor.  They just rape, pillage, stab, mutillate, do diabolical things to them, and then come back and do it all again for chucks and giggles.  Fact is tho, Bill Gates donated more money to charities all over the world than any government on the planet.  Socialist, communist, or capitalist.  Doesn’t matter.  He beat them all.  Again.  What Dick is hoping for is that government in some form, take Bill’s money, and spread it WISELY to those who need it.

Does anyone else see the farce in that assumption?  Does Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac not ring any bells right this very moment?

It just never ceases to amaze me how people come to a conclusion that totally defies all known facts and comes to a conclusion that totally contradicts what it is they demanded in the first place.

Kinda like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid telling us that increasing production has no effect on meeting demand but punishing the evil corporate supplier will.

I’m gonna bet you my bottom dollar that if Stephen Dick is registered to vote at all, he’s Democrat.

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