Does anyone reading this actually believe accepting unfettered market competition and limitless corporate power is going to help them?...Seriously?
If you do then you are hopeless. And you are probably a big fan of Chicago school economics( Milton Friedman)
You are also a colossal imbecile and possibly mentally ill or very very rich (which means you can hire a lawyer and sue me because I called you stupid and mentally ill.....which you still are; your fancy lawyer can't change that!!..................... So fuck you !!!!! ). Free market fundamentalism is the ultimate expression of greedy anti-social elitism. And has proven to be effective as an excuse and mechanism to dismantle the post war social institutions that fueled the highest increase in general standard of living in the history of recorded society.
So why would somebody want to undo such a push forward in Social understanding not to mention the enormous increase in general health and education? Why send us back to the age of the Robber Baron and the Crippled Pauper?
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That's the percentage of the earth's populace that benefit from the stripping down of public institutions and the de-regulation of markets. After the great depression that one percent took a severe kick in their profit filled nut sack with a frozen mukluk with New Deal stitched one side and CCF (Tommy douglas anyone?)stitched on the other.
So of course these greedy little buggers leapt at the chance to undue the policies that turned their grotesque profits into .......slightly less grotesque profits. They funded the university of Chicago which turned out an entire brood of nasty little bastards(the afore mentioned alpha douche Friedman) hell bent on ripping everything the middle class in north america had earned and placing it right back into the hands of that special one percent that funded their education and allowed them to gain access to government officials(Thatcher, Regan, Pinochet and yes Brian Mulroney) so they could in fact turn the world into a shitty flea market.
I think a reasonable person understands that one need look no further than Argentina for the proof that hands off global capitalism has failed miserably.
Argentina embraced the types of market reforms subscribed by the market fundamentalists and it's middle class was wiped out in a matter of months when the house of cards economy that had been built by years of free market fundamentalism came down there was nothing to stop the wholesale destruction of the middle class.
The lesson learned was that if capital is allowed to flow without restraint then it will abandon whole countries without blinking for slightly cheaper labour and slightly less taxes.
So it is now quite well accepted in the latin american sphere that governments have a very important role(a much smarter man named Keynes had a theory to this effect) to play in determining economic policy.
I wish we had the guts to say that out-loud here, We used to. In Canada we had a mixed economy that fostered the greatest standard of living in the world and we did it without the world bank or the IMF.
But then a really nasty guy named Brian Mulroney (mentioned earlier)convinced people to abandon the system that had brought us our prosperity and security, he said Canada had adjust to global reality and open our borders to competition from the American Market. People bought it
Now we have no manufacturing sector and the biggest employer is Wal-Mart .(which also crushed Woolco and Eaton's and forced Hudson's bay to be sold to American interests) But a market fundamentalist will tell you that those companies weren't competitive and that consumer has benefitted from these foreign mega stores.
I would tell them to shut up and get back to work at their minimum wage retail position with no benefits and no job security. because they were being "time thieves"
I think that local economic participation is key to stable and sustainable growth. Others are starting to realize this as well, We could all look around and decide we wanted a living wage and a curb on the rights of corporations to rip the very fabric of our society apart in order to increase the dividend of one fat Wall street/Bay street fat fatty fat fat fucker by one percent.
But then we would be godless gay commie traitors who hate freedom and love Osama Bin Laden and Stalin equally.
I Would like to add that Stephen harper is a jackass.
I saw him eating poop
If you do then you are hopeless. And you are probably a big fan of Chicago school economics( Milton Friedman)
You are also a colossal imbecile and possibly mentally ill or very very rich (which means you can hire a lawyer and sue me because I called you stupid and mentally ill.....which you still are; your fancy lawyer can't change that!!..................... So fuck you !!!!! ). Free market fundamentalism is the ultimate expression of greedy anti-social elitism. And has proven to be effective as an excuse and mechanism to dismantle the post war social institutions that fueled the highest increase in general standard of living in the history of recorded society.
So why would somebody want to undo such a push forward in Social understanding not to mention the enormous increase in general health and education? Why send us back to the age of the Robber Baron and the Crippled Pauper?
%1
That's the percentage of the earth's populace that benefit from the stripping down of public institutions and the de-regulation of markets. After the great depression that one percent took a severe kick in their profit filled nut sack with a frozen mukluk with New Deal stitched one side and CCF (Tommy douglas anyone?)stitched on the other.
So of course these greedy little buggers leapt at the chance to undue the policies that turned their grotesque profits into .......slightly less grotesque profits. They funded the university of Chicago which turned out an entire brood of nasty little bastards(the afore mentioned alpha douche Friedman) hell bent on ripping everything the middle class in north america had earned and placing it right back into the hands of that special one percent that funded their education and allowed them to gain access to government officials(Thatcher, Regan, Pinochet and yes Brian Mulroney) so they could in fact turn the world into a shitty flea market.
I think a reasonable person understands that one need look no further than Argentina for the proof that hands off global capitalism has failed miserably.
Argentina embraced the types of market reforms subscribed by the market fundamentalists and it's middle class was wiped out in a matter of months when the house of cards economy that had been built by years of free market fundamentalism came down there was nothing to stop the wholesale destruction of the middle class.
The lesson learned was that if capital is allowed to flow without restraint then it will abandon whole countries without blinking for slightly cheaper labour and slightly less taxes.
So it is now quite well accepted in the latin american sphere that governments have a very important role(a much smarter man named Keynes had a theory to this effect) to play in determining economic policy.
I wish we had the guts to say that out-loud here, We used to. In Canada we had a mixed economy that fostered the greatest standard of living in the world and we did it without the world bank or the IMF.
But then a really nasty guy named Brian Mulroney (mentioned earlier)convinced people to abandon the system that had brought us our prosperity and security, he said Canada had adjust to global reality and open our borders to competition from the American Market. People bought it
Now we have no manufacturing sector and the biggest employer is Wal-Mart .(which also crushed Woolco and Eaton's and forced Hudson's bay to be sold to American interests) But a market fundamentalist will tell you that those companies weren't competitive and that consumer has benefitted from these foreign mega stores.
I would tell them to shut up and get back to work at their minimum wage retail position with no benefits and no job security. because they were being "time thieves"
I think that local economic participation is key to stable and sustainable growth. Others are starting to realize this as well, We could all look around and decide we wanted a living wage and a curb on the rights of corporations to rip the very fabric of our society apart in order to increase the dividend of one fat Wall street/Bay street fat fatty fat fat fucker by one percent.
But then we would be godless gay commie traitors who hate freedom and love Osama Bin Laden and Stalin equally.
I Would like to add that Stephen harper is a jackass.
I saw him eating poop