Forum Post: Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. Al Capone
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 7 p.m. EST by Keepitsimple
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Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. --Al Capone From: brainyquote.com/
Support the OWS movement!!!
Regulated Free Market Capitolism is a good thing. Too bad our government doesn't believe in it anymore. We need a constutional ammendment to ban the government from using tax revenue to subsidize or invest in private enterprise.
RIGHT ON - We can make it or break it without being pushed toward the latter by our Government. They are a lot better at governing than running private enterprise and right now me and Ray both think that they are not doing too hot at the governing thing. Over a hundred of us had a bar-b-que the other day. Only 13 of us though the governing thing amounted to anything at all. They were all from the BBQ company in NYC. But rest assured, the salsa was not from NYC.
R I G H T - O N !
Our corrupt governments and multinational corporations constitute the REAL ORGANIZED CRIME.
Compared to them, Al Capone and assorted mafiosi are just a bunch of colorful - and pretty disorganized - amateurs.
Respected spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra - a former supporter of Obama - recently exclaimed in an interview on YouTube: "OBAMA IS SURROUNDED BY MAFIA!"
But because Obama is such a crafty manipulator, half of the American public DOESN'T GET IT YET.
You mean Deepak Chopra the multi-millionaire? Isn't he part of the 1%?
SO WHAT? This was never against the rich. There are some very good and generous people among the 1%.
Anyway, "HarryPairatestes2", you are a TROLL and I have NO TIME to play with you. GOOD NIGHT!!!!
Oooh, someone's panties are in a twist.
So the OWS mantra of taking from the 1% does differentiate between good and bad 1%? You are the first to say that.
Who decides which ones are good and which ones are bad, you?
Ahhhhhhhhh that capitalism thing again. It might be all we got left going for us. Name ONE, just ONE, other system that has ever successfully provided an escape from proverty for so many for so long.
Remember - Proverty involves this: If bread is $10.00 a loaf and you can buy bread - that ain't necessarily proverty. If bread is 5cents and you ain't got a nickle - THAT IS PROVERTY, and it is proverty first class.
Waiting quietly for you to name ONE.
You are correct. Please see my comment to zorno.
I agree with you that capitalism is sometimes a good thing, lately in the US it isn't. We have to get pack to the capitalism that helps people escape poverty as you say.
On another note, over the last two or three decades, the Chinese have brought something like a hundred million people out of the worst poverty. Its not the American dream, but at least, China has been growing.
And was that great rise from poverty the result of communism or capitalism under a communist system?? I believe that capitalism is always a good thing. I also believe that there are those among us that would abuse that system and attempt to make it appear the source of evil instead of the individuals or individual who is really to blame
I believe a lot of it was due to investments in infrastructure by the Chinese government, improved transportation and distribution, better farming machinery, improvements in education. Whether that was capitalist or communist, I don't know.
I believe capitalism can be abused too. For example, I think that the capitalism that we had under JFK is quite different from what we have today.
Capitalism can be a positive thing also. Think about the US under JFK or Roosevelt. That's what we want to return to.
I feel, along with others, that what is really needed is a new economic structure that is NOT based on capitalism or socialism. The old tired sef-serving left/right agenda needs to be replaced with a new paradigm. My hope is that some genius (not me) will get noticed from the OWS movement that actually has a new solution to economic and government power. This could arise from the new information age of the Internet. This will have to mean that representatives (congress) of the people will actually will be forced to represent the will of the people. In order to accomplish this, the citizenry will have to make time to be involved with economic and government decisions.
In my opinion, what went wrong for so many decades was that the people let the consciousness of the Republic be determined by too few people who have self-serving and bought interests as their agenda.
I don't think the emphasis on the system is productive. If someone takes a dump (please excuse the crude example-but I did see the video) on your sidewalk, you don't replace the sidewalk.
If we have been dumped on, we need to address the real problem and not throw the sidewalk in the ravine just to clean up the mess. Changing the system and merely putting the same people back in charge is not progress.
Like Malcom X said, "We didn't land at Plymoth Rock, Plymoth Rock landed on us!
Changing the system would probably not be putting the same people in charge....
At the real issue (and always is) is consciousness.
OKay OKay. All that I can say to any of your comments is Okay, Okay.
PS - I just talked to my friend Ray about number 01. and all he said was "evidently" have no idea what he was meaning by that.
Think about capitalism from day one of this country. See my post above.