The bottom line, and the moral of the current crises is:
Accept some small measure of socialism so that your entire country doesn't HAVE TO become socialist. And I mean that from the mildest to the most horrific of potential scenarios..
If we had a socialized health plan for our workers, American companies could afford them. That would've kept jobs home, mortgages paid, the economy strong and our capitalistic free market thriving like no other. If we had not allowed insurance companies to lobby our country into the dirt and keep health care private (and of course, pricey), we would not be in the mess we're in today.
And if we'd not let BigOil lobby to stonewall our changeover to alternatives, that could've started 30 years ago in large measure, we would not be in the mess we are today. If BigOil hadn't coerced GM into gestapo-style recalls of the Volt in 2000, in favor of the collosal guzzler the "Hummer", we would be world leaders in production of electric and hybrid cars. Now we're bailing out car companies to be able to afford to stay in business long enough (hopefully) to quickly mass-produce cars that will undoubtedly have 8 years of bugs we already would've worked out to compete globally..
Lobbiests/bribery and greed are the evil garden from where forced socialism springs. They are the ones who sewed the seeds forcing us to buy the companies they work for in a socialist bailout. They get the profits from all those years of corruption and they get to walk away with more cream just for good measure.
Congress is making a mistake if they allot one US dollar to any of them!
"Here you go bad dog, here's a bisquit for biting me TWICE".
We need to reform lobbying laws. I say, make all lobbying illegal. Lobbying is nothing but bribery. Congress can and will work way more effetively if there aren't forceful distractions and coercion going on 24/7 on Capitol Hill. We are a nation of people FIRST and healthy capitalism a close second. The two cannot be separated in fact because the entire premise of capitalism lies on the productivity and well-being of the lowly worker and his family.
