Michael Moore Believes Capitalism Has Failed Us...
Michael Moore's new movie talks about how capitalism has failed us. The problem with Michael Moore's assertion is that capitalism doesn't exist in America. It probably never has existed. What we have in America is not capitalism; it's socialism, fascism, mercantilism, corporatism, or some combination of all four of those. Whatever it's called, it's not capitalism, and IT is what has failed us, not capitalism.
What has failed us is corporations' ability to purchase legislation or regulations, which forces people to use their services or drives competitors out of the market (again, not capitalism...that's corporatism). The other thing that has failed us is the government socializing services, regulating businesses, or taking over businesses. This destroys the free market's ability to provide better services at better prices (again, this is not capitalism either...it's fascism, mercantilism, or socialism).
We need to get government out of businesses, and we need to get businesses out of government. Just like we believe in the separation of church and state, we need to institute the separation of corporations and state.
Either way, you can't blame capitalism, when capitalism has not existed in this country for many years, if ever. We either have a capitalist system or we don't. There is nothing in between.
Is Ron Paul the only politician with any sense? I love the part of this video when, right after Ron Paul explains to Larry King that having the "right" to medical care implies people have the right to force someone else to give them medical services or products, Larry King then asks Ron Paul, "Well...what if someone falls in the street, and he's dying...shouldn't the government take care of him?" The problem is, the general public thinks like Larry King. We are hopeless.
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it's called stupidfuckingsheepism. Oh, my leader knows what is good for me better than i do. Why are my kids retarded; they must be diseased and so on and fuckforth...
Why is it that my blog seems to attract comments from the most unpatriotic, cynical, jaded, crude, antiestablishmentarian (hilarious) people? Is that a real word, "fuckforth?" You people are sick.
Crusty, I am most of those adjectives, but I agree with Dr. Paul. Nobody has a "right" to take from me, even if they've voted government to do the taking for them.
I put it this way: Does my neighbor have a right to extort money or services from me, under threat of imprisonment? Of course not. So what if a few of my neighbors have a meeting and vote on it, deciding democratically to do it? They would be called a gang, and the extortion would still be wrong. What about an entire neighborhood? That's called a mob, and's still wrong. What about a city? A county? A state? A country? What causes extortion to suddenly become right just because enough people have voted to do it?
Wayne, you make me sick. How are people supposed to get the proper care they need if not by extorting money from you with the threat of imprisonment? The problem is that you think there is a "you" and "your property." You need to stop thinking that way. There is no "you," and if there was a "you," you still wouldn't own any property.
There is only the "collective" and "collective needs" and "collective property." The reason why there is no such thing as "you" or "your property" is because the majority of us decided that was the case. How can you argue with that?
Now fall in line, American, before I call you unpatriotic.
"Now fall in line, American, before I call you unpatriotic."
Not the comfy word!
I give. I'll wrap all my money--sorry, I mean federal reserve notes--up in my copy of the constitution and send it to the collective. Wherever that is.
and you call yourself a christian country every chance you get..heh..what a joke,
You are right health care isn't a right, let the poor die..fuck them if God loved them like he loves you they wouldn't be poor or sick right?
Anyway it's their own fault they are sick, if they hadn't smoked, drank, got fat, married that asshole, been born to two idiots with crappy genetics.....
anti abortion, anti euthanasia and anti health care...do any of you every actually listen to the shit that spews out of your mouths?
Oh right you don't have to..God is your saviour and you will do everything it says in the bible...well except those pesky commandments but they are for other people and god understands right?
Anonymous,
You're a dumbass.
I'm guessing you're blindly posting your ignorant comments on all the blogs you believe to be conservative, christian, anti-public health care blogs. I'm guessing you're posting the same comment over and over again without reading the post or the rest of the blog.
I'm not a Conservative, I'm not religious, and I'm not against people helping other people. I also don't believe our country is a christian country, founded on christian principles. It's a country with a lot of christians in it, founded by self-professed agnostics, based on what they believed to be nature's laws. They believed nature's laws entitled everybody to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I agree with the founding fathers that we are naturally entitled to the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
However, christian laws and nature's laws do not contradict each other, and I believe people in our country are hypocritical. They say they believe in the Bible, but then they vote for laws that would violate what the Bible teaches them.
Specifically the Bible teaches people that they should not covet their neighbor's property, and they should not steal. However, christians generally have no problem stealing money or property from people for the benefit of themselves or other people.
A true christian would not believe in using the government to force one person to pay for the health care of another person. Charity does not involve guns and force. In addition, a true christian would believe in voluntarily helping as many people as he possibly can.
It is impossible for a person to have a natural right to health care. Having a right to health implies that one person owns the property, time, and labor of another person. It is not possible to have a natural right to something which requires forcing someone else to give you something. What if nobody else existed, would you still have a right to health care?
That fact that you wrote your senseless comments on a non-converative, non-religion-based blog, makes me wonder if you pay any attention to the ignorant bullshit that emanates from your mouth. Have you ever stopped to consider just how stupid you, and people who think like you, really are.
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