Over the past 150 years, every time some politician states that workers have the right to a livable wage, that unions can help with that, or that the government can provide some kind of financial support to help every citizen benefit from some necessary service, such as education, healthcare, childcare, or food and housing, the wealthy …
Over the past 150 years, every time some politician states that workers have the right to a livable wage, that unions can help with that, or that the government can provide some kind of financial support to help every citizen benefit from some necessary service, such as education, healthcare, childcare, or food and housing, the wealthy families and big corporations yell “socialism.” The wealthy families and big corporations do not approve of anything that would increase their taxes or cut into their profits. They have no regrets about living in a country in which some of their employees cannot afford their rent, or get healthcare. They usually favor that those people should go to war to protect our capitalist interests and need for energy resources, such as Vietnam and Iraq, and earlier wars with Spain and Mexico. Of course, slavery was an energy policy also, and we went to war over that. The Claremont Institute seems ready to go to war over that again.
Over the past 150 years, every time some politician states that workers have the right to a livable wage, that unions can help with that, or that the government can provide some kind of financial support to help every citizen benefit from some necessary service, such as education, healthcare, childcare, or food and housing, the wealthy families and big corporations yell “socialism.” The wealthy families and big corporations do not approve of anything that would increase their taxes or cut into their profits. They have no regrets about living in a country in which some of their employees cannot afford their rent, or get healthcare. They usually favor that those people should go to war to protect our capitalist interests and need for energy resources, such as Vietnam and Iraq, and earlier wars with Spain and Mexico. Of course, slavery was an energy policy also, and we went to war over that. The Claremont Institute seems ready to go to war over that again.