Vanguard.45
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We all remember (I'd hope) the image from the Tiananmen Square student protests where the Chinese Military came in with the tanks and the one lone protester stood in the path of the tank to try and stop the advance of the tank. Quite a powerful image.
That image led me to think about how it applies to the modern day U.S..
Here, I see that tank more as a tank of policies attempting to roll over the working man. The tank could represent the combination of the following:
Corporate Welfare
Entitlement Programs for those who CAN work but WON'T
Open Borders
Outsourcing of Jobs
Job Cuts to Strengthen the "Bottom Line" and keep shareholders happy
Social Security (in its present configuration)
Taxation from all sides (income, sales, excise, property, luxury, sin, marriage, death, etc.)
Outrageous Government Spending
And the lone figure standing in front of this is the common, everyday working man, slowly getting run down with no voice and no way to really do anything about it. I mean, come on, DO YOU REALLY THINK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO GIVE YOU A CANDIDATE THAT IS TRULY GOING TO MAKE DRASTIC CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM?????
Plato said it 2,500 years ago in THE REPUBLIC. He said that in such corrupt situations, the poor have no POWER to make any changes and the powerful don't WANT things to change! Laying off workers who have been with a company for twenty years while the CEO and his buddies make MILLIONS IS a violation of basic human decency. In centuries past, GREED was considered one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Today, it is corporate policy.
Capitalism without basic morality, a sense of community, and a concern for your fellow man (from the CEO right on down to the janitor) turns into what we are seeing. And it is WRONG. And don't get me wrong, I AM A CAPITALIST, but I see what such a system left unchecked by morality can morph into- and it isn't pretty.
We speak out against HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS such as what we saw in China, but the tank is rolling over the working class right here at home.
Doesn't anyone else see a problem here?
Vanguard.45
That image led me to think about how it applies to the modern day U.S..
Here, I see that tank more as a tank of policies attempting to roll over the working man. The tank could represent the combination of the following:
Corporate Welfare
Entitlement Programs for those who CAN work but WON'T
Open Borders
Outsourcing of Jobs
Job Cuts to Strengthen the "Bottom Line" and keep shareholders happy
Social Security (in its present configuration)
Taxation from all sides (income, sales, excise, property, luxury, sin, marriage, death, etc.)
Outrageous Government Spending
And the lone figure standing in front of this is the common, everyday working man, slowly getting run down with no voice and no way to really do anything about it. I mean, come on, DO YOU REALLY THINK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO GIVE YOU A CANDIDATE THAT IS TRULY GOING TO MAKE DRASTIC CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM?????
Plato said it 2,500 years ago in THE REPUBLIC. He said that in such corrupt situations, the poor have no POWER to make any changes and the powerful don't WANT things to change! Laying off workers who have been with a company for twenty years while the CEO and his buddies make MILLIONS IS a violation of basic human decency. In centuries past, GREED was considered one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Today, it is corporate policy.
Capitalism without basic morality, a sense of community, and a concern for your fellow man (from the CEO right on down to the janitor) turns into what we are seeing. And it is WRONG. And don't get me wrong, I AM A CAPITALIST, but I see what such a system left unchecked by morality can morph into- and it isn't pretty.
We speak out against HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS such as what we saw in China, but the tank is rolling over the working class right here at home.
Doesn't anyone else see a problem here?
Vanguard.45