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The World As WE Know It

First of all lets start out by saying Capitalism is good to keep prices in check and values of certain commodities in balance. Without the demand of people prices would never change.

When Capitalism goes bad! Greed!!! Certain people will always be able to direct the prices and wages paid out. Why? Because they have the money or economic power. How is this possible? Well, one can buy anything one wants to if they have enough money, including companies and other people. One can direct the sales of products or companies with enough economic influence as well. So what can we as normal people do about the greed in the U.S.. Not much!!! We, the people do not have the power, money or economic influence to change these greedy peoples minds. The only way would be to go to Socialism and that has been shunned because the greedy would then have to share.

But I made my money and I want to keep it. Well, lets see how you made it.
One, you have made enormously high salaries while paying substandard wages to your fellow man! You have bought or sold companies or parts of companies to limit the salaries you have to pay, and didn’t care about the services you promised to your customers. Oh and then you left the company after you cut out hundreds of jobs, provided your customers with less than adequate service and received a 20 million dollar bonus. Wait, I forgot another way to save. Lets buy out or better yet lay off our higher salaried employees and higher new employees to replace them at ever lesser starting salaries than the previous ones started at. This way I saved the company millions on paying salaries. Now lets see here, yea, you really earned your money! Oh, I forgot about the stocks that you received and after leaving the company smaller but with a higher stock value, sold the stocks for more money. So sorry to have forgotten about that. O.K. Mr. CEO of SBC. Do you have another side to the story. Just the facts though.

Oh, but Reagan and the trickle down theory really worked. Hmmm, lets see who it worked for? I the working man, or woman is working for a company, lets say FORD. I the CEO want to pay you less for making cars. But I want my pay to go up another 10% from the measly 30 million a year I get. And don’t forget about my bones shareholders, another 20 million, the private jets, dinners, and credit cards. Now, I, the CEO want you to go out and buy a new FORD. How is this you say? Well by mortgaging your home, or borrowing from a bank. Of which I am a stockholder of course, says the CEO. I cannot afford to pay you wages where you can go buy a car and pay for it on your salary. Oh, your credit is bad! Well I guess you cannot afford to buy a car then unless you pay 20% interest. So who is going to buy the new cars. The CEO? He can only buy so many. The major shareholders and upper echelon of the company can only buy so many. SO who? Not you or me normal people. So why is FORD doing so poorly? Hmm? Oh but the trickle down of the money the CEO makes goes into creating new jobs. Yes, I will agree about that. At substandard pay so they too cannot buy a car from FORD. So why is FORD Going into the dumps? Nobody can afford to buy their cars. My statement about the new job creation is who again gets all the money from the new company. The same CEO again. We see a miniscule amount of the earnings from these companies. Here is an example, I make 20 million a year and pay my average employee $40,000. I will buy how many cars this year? Lets say five. The person with 40 grand maybe can buy one if they have no children. Maybe one every six or seven years. There is one CEO and thousands of employees. Hmm. Who can buy more cars, tv’s, stereos, homes, computers? My money is one the 40 grand people. Duhhhhh!!!! Why are we not making money in our business? Duhhhhh! Cause we ain’t got no money to spend on these little tidbits. I hope you liked the change of dialect there. Back to the issue of Capitalism, it would have created this new company anyways without the CEO’s help. That is what capitalism does. If the need is there Capitalism creates the new company. With or without the greedy CEO’s money.

I am shocked to see the wages of workers being cut so drastically instead of increased. That is what Mr. Ford who created the company would say if he were here today. He started the automated factory line you know. Mass producing products and paying good wages. He would ask, how the CEO’s pay in increasing at such a drastic rate when the employees live on under 20 dollars an hour?

I would bet that over three fourths of the major companies today pay the majority of their employees below thirty dollars an hour. Look at Wal- Mart, Gates Gasoline, AT&T, just to name a few. Now lets talk about the moral situation in this country. All the rich people are whining about Morals. Gee, have they seen how many hours parents these days have to work in order to keep a household going these days? Notice I said Parents people, Parentsssss. There is no-one at home to take care of their children. There is no-one to teach them the morals we were taught when we were younger. Why? Hmmmmm, could it be SATIN! I would laugh if the Roman Catholics had not made it sinfull to make absurd amounts of money. SO when you overly rich whine at us about our morals, well you have yourselves to thank for that.

So why do the Democrats want more government involvement? Well again I say that you, the absurd rich, only have yourselves to blame. If you were not so greedy then we would not need someone to help us keep you under control. Yes Capitalism can work, just not for long with humans. Greed one of the ten commandments I believe, comes into play way to easily. Its either the Government takes action to stem the tide of inequality or we do. Sometimes when we do it, it is peaceful. Sometimes as in Lenin’s example, it is violent. But the day is coming when you will have to share, because you are paying out to little and the morality of people is suffering. Look at yourselves you greedy pigs, paying someone twenty dollars an hour instead of ten helps them raise their children better. Paying them more also makes them more reliable, and care about the products they are making or selling. So why are the absurd rich keeping it all for themselves? Well my answer is greed and the fact that they have not gotten that new yacht yet.
Second to last statement about the republicans. President Bush, do not ever tell us, the American people, to get out and spend. Oh my god, spend what? You rich have all the money! Just because you give us a thousand dollars on tax relief, doesn’t mean we are going to spend it on a tv when we cannot afford the child care because we each work two jobs. Please do not ever seem that greedy again!

Last thought on republicans or the greedy. Removing social security because we should invest ourselves is ridiculous. Why? What money do we have to invest? That basically states it all but I will elaborate. I once wanted to invest in stocks. I had 40 grand! Yea! I felt happy about that. I called up my Merrill Lynch broker and told him I had this much. He told me that it really wasn’t anything he could make money for me with. So my question is, how is someone that makes $20 dollars an hour going to create an investment egg for themselves? A normal person not some wizard with stocks now! Get real. This is for normal people I am speaking about. So without social security most people will not have anything left once they get old and retire. Have you worked at the age of seventy yet? Oh my god I bet that hurts! It hurts at forty!

Oh the Liberal Democrats! Do I have an issue with you. Yes, I do! Although I do not agree much with the republicans there is one thing I have to stand by Mr. Bush on. It is Iraq and Afghanistan. Lets see here, what were the leaders of these countries doing before we invaded? Killing innocent people like you and me. I am not talking about the rich. They could leave! They had the money! Just normal people. Normal people do not carry guns, at least in most of the world. The people who were in charge of these countries had guns! How? They had all the money! No way huh. How can one walk up to people who would not think twice about killing someone and say, stop doing this killing and torturing. Please stop, or stop now evil doer! Oh no you are dead and in a dark place. You are most likely going to be eaten by a greu (Zork.) Religious fanatics are even worse. Just ask the people of Southeast France during the inquisition. So please do not be so naive to think that sanctions will work when they have oil, Russia and China who just don’t care about people. Oh don’t forget about France who will do anything for money from Iraq. Loved Jaq Sheroc or however you spelled his name. What a crook! If you don’t believe me go back in history. Look what it took to get out from under the kings and dictators of the world. War! If we do not do something about Africa as well we are in for a really fun time. The whole continent is going to blow itself up just because they do not have an earring in the right place. Oh, they are not really Muslim, but they know the stupidity of the current liberals of the world let them get away with murder because they claim it. We are going in there eventually anyways. Just accept it Libs! Unless you can stand another 50 million people gutting and raping their way to extinction. I cannot, sorry. Remember your history! You cannot take a gun away from a killer without a gun of your own, and most of the time you better have a bigger gun!

That’s life Jim, but not as they know it. Notice that the people who fit into my wonderful categories are both really, really rich. Oil barons, Ceo’s on one side, and actors and power mongers on the other. Buy the way will someone tell the actors that they have no idea what real life is anymore! Stay out of politics! Ooooo, that’s the next paper, elections. Until then, Seee Ya!
Jimbo Bob Britt the IV LOL