The Bad News: Planet
Earth is Still in its Neanderthal days
The GOOD News: Planet
Earth is Still in its Neanderthal days
and Things will get better!
I am Man. Hear me Roar!
I roam the jungle
and plunder and kill as
I can!
How much proof does our society need to understand that Free Market
Laissez Faire does not work and will never work? Concentrated wealth
at the top commits its every effort, its every ounce of existence to
assure that power and control of market dynamics stay in the hands
of
the ones in control. There is no such thing as a system of free
market
and Laissez Faire unless there are "regulations" and "rules of engagement"
to protect all aspects of and all participants in the market- Particularly
the smaller less
capitalized businesses.
RULES ARE GOOD!
Small business need regulations and Rules to protect their very important
and integral position in the markets.
Consumers need regulations and rules to protect their interests when
they
exchange currency for goods and services.
A system of capitalism cannot exist unless there are rules
to the game! Rules that must be carefully adhered to by the
corporations deemed to be the ones that can take unusual or
overbearing positions on markets. There are no other answers- it
simply must be.
CAN I SELL YOU THE TERM FREE MARKET?? HUH?
When people speak about the process within a Free Market with terms
like "self adjusting" or "self correcting" they're selling snake
oil.
When entire industries are owned by as few as 2-3 major corporations
any adjustments within that particular industry is because the people
at the top of that industry made it so. Not because the market forced
it to adjust. When we have near monopolies in any particular sector
of industry the people on top of that industry dictate the market
dynamics not the other way around. When any industry, be it
manufacturing, agriculture, technology, or even banking -- is void
of
any regulation or rules of engagement it is ripe for mishap,
perversion, and downright malevolent behavior.
The evidence is clear and irrefutable. Look at the savings and loan
debacle in the 80's, the Tyco scandal in the 90's, Enron in 2000, and
the pinnacle of corruption the mortgage and investment banking
corporations heist of millions of Americans' retirement funds and tax
payer money and bankrupting the U.S. and 90% of its people in the
process. This is because we, by coercion from the corporate
lobbyists, relaxed and in some cases did completely away with "rules
and regulations". The captains of industry do not regulate
themselves, they do not limit their control over markets by taking
the moral high ground. They are in it to win at all costs, to make
as
much profit as possible- regardless of the havoc they leave in their
destructive wake.
LESS GOVERNMENT! (The Rich Guy tells you)
Understandably, when you hear these people speak of having no
regulatory agencies overseeing their inner workings or wanting no
"rules and regulations" to "impede" their progress or pleas to allow
them
to "self regulate" - - they are advocating what is best for themselves.
Understandably, there is big money to be made, unbridled power to
gain and they will have us believe that this is in "our" best interest.
However, when "free markets" do have clear and constructive rules and
regulations in place, strong regulatory agencies to govern and
principled Attorney Generals to apply the due course of law, we will
have less corruption and predatory behavior from corporations and
industry. Only if there were a system in place to make the industry
leaders that choose to work outside "the rules" culpable for their
actions and only if they are made to pay dearly for their crimes, can
"free markets"
exist. The laws need to be clear and comprehensive with "teeth" that
will inflict injury if we should ever expect leaders of corporations
to behave in a fair and just manner. Only then will markets adjust
to
real "true market forces".
With comprehensive rules and regulations markets will succumb to
natural market forces such as supply and demand, customer desires and
of course competition. No matter how out of whack they get, the long-
term trend is always going to be in the right direction. When we
remove the corruption and the plutocracy from business, we will see
more economic growth, better quality products at lower prices and
increased productivity and efficiency.
Quote from blogger- Dave from site "Food Democracy Now"
" These are the stakes, as they always have been, ever since the
first colonists took up arms against concentrated wealth and power.
In the struggle for freedom and independence, the battle never
changes, even if the face of the enemy does."
PS. ONLY JOKING kids. No cavemen running things. What we're
dealing with ...when the SUPER RICH THREE HEADED HYDRA which runs the White
House. This monster is a mutant of evolved materialism, intelligence. They've
got America by the shorts. campaigning pols and Incumbant Pols are bought.
They move the way SuperPacs move'em or they're out. The money is not moving
above the table through lobbyists, it's moving thru SUPER PACS by big billionaires,
and not a thousand a whack, but twenty million at a time. THEY do not need
to report where the money came from! The SUPER PAC doles out the money
to P.R. campaigns, buying reporters and to the candidates. This writer
knows a Wall Street reporter who will not talk about the American Spring
picket going on for a week in NYC Sept 2011. Queried, he evades it. MainStream
Media has not reported on it other.
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