Perfect Economy?

I'm just sitting here contemplating what my idea of a perfect economy (good economy) would be. My thought is that any job that requires an adult to perform it for 40 plus hours per week should pay well enough for a person to provide for their family. Does this make sense to anybody else or am I the only one that thinks it, and when I say pay well enough for someone to provide for their family I mean that they could afford a modest size home, the utilities, a car, insurance, a retirement plan and enough for food and clothes with just a little extra for vacations etc. I don't think I'm asking too much. Why should any job that requires an adult to perform it full time not pay well enough to provide for a family? Just because the job may not require higher levels of training and education doesn't mean that the person performing it doesn't deserve the necessities of life.

I believe that our lowest paying jobs should provide enough for a family to have the basic, American, comforts of life, home, food, clothes, security. Of course the jobs that require more training etc. should pay more and offer a little higher standard of living, notice I said a little higher, that doesn't mean mansions and yaughts. I think it's ridiculous that these greedy bastards that run the big companies hoard all the wealth for themselves and that the masses stand by and do nothing about it. The difference in pay between the low blue collar worker and the top CEO is immoral and disgusting. Anyone that is a Billioniare is not a good and decent person. How can they justify having so much while there are so many that have so little. If one of these huge monopolies is earning that much money the right thing to do would be to spread it out evenly among the workers that make it all possible instead of hoarding it all for the top people. Instead of taking an overall percent of the profits, they should take a certain percentage with a cap that is not too disgustingly high.

If our highest leader in this country is only paid several hundred thousand dollars per year, why then should that be any different for any other person in this world? Does it not make sense that the top earners do deserve more, but not so much more that they begin to have wealth when others who work to sustain our way of life struggle or have nothing. America by this idea has never had a good economy. America is the lesser of all the evils in this world, or so we tell ourselves. When our country and our economy takes both parents out of the home and sends them to work just so they can afford a home for their family then we know we are headed for destruction. Without at least one parent home to raise the children, the children then have become abandoned and their future becomes dark with a high probability of failure. And the failure of the children is the failure of our nation and everything we stand for. I call for the return of a parent in the home. Let us fill our nation with single income homes that can provide for families, that can give them a home, food, clothes and security with the ability to enjoy the basic comforts of life.

I say stand up and rage against those who steal from the masses to fill their pockets with the rewards of the many. There should be no billionaires in our country and few millionaires. None should own multimillion dollar homes, yaughts, summer homes, and all should work to contribute to society with the exception of those who are unable to work, who we then should come together for and provide for as a nation. Those who live in grand excess are glutonous pigs and should pay for their crimes against society. They have brought us into the state we currently enjoy, uncertainty, poverty, failure, and ruin. They should pay for these sins against our nation but they go free into their hoarded wealth, they live their lives of excess while those who truly hold up this nation starve and scrape by from day to day.

There is no longer a reward for the hardworking American. There is no security, there is no trust and there is no loyalty. Our leaders fail us. Billions in taxes are squandered by the few. Immoral and unethical wars are fought. Food is taken from the mouths of our children to fill the pockets of corrupt and selfish business tycoons. The tyranny that hovers its dark cloud over our heads today is no longer from the kings of years past but now the business men who pick the pockets of the masses in the name of profit and good business. No longer does Capitalism stand for what is right, if it ever did. A free market does not truly exist and the ship of capitalism that has carried us begins to sink. Consumerism equals selfishness and greed, and these are our rewards, an immoral country where you don't feel safe to walk your streets, where your children cannot play without constant threat, where honest business fails more often than succeeds. Profit driven business is a recipe for destruction. It is natural that a business maintain profit to succeed, but it is not natural for that to become its sole purpose in being. When the only thing that matters is the bottom line and overall profits then the business no longer provides a service to this nation and its people, it becomes a cancer that must be eradicated. Business should provide a service first and foremost, profiting only so that it may continue to provide that service.

No more fat cats, no more unequal distribution of the wealth. Let equality stand up and create a nation we can be proud of. Let us truly fight for something beyond the mere appearance of freedom, let us fight for true equality where no man takes the advantage over another, where wealth is distributed fairly, and all are able to live without want. Shame rests upon those who mean to lead us, and shame to us who support them. Shame on the greedy both large and small who have corrupted business and driven us into the shambles. Shame on the pursuit of wealth and power.

Quibble and Bits

This has nothing to do with anything, just the ranting of a nobody in this large pool of a nation of self appropriated greatness. I call this the Great Drowning Pool or as the saying goes it could be called the Sink or Swim Pool.

The problem is that it seems more people are sinking than swimming. Where are the life guards? Who are the life guards? I look around and everybody is helping to drag down the person next to them in an effort of self survival.

What am I talking about you ask? This Damn economy (not just the present economy but the whole way we do business)! Here we are built on the shady foundation of Capitalism and we act surprised that our consumer driven economy is collapsing because all of the greed and money madness is turning upside down on itself. When the main pursuit in life becomes the accumulation of wealth what remains is the option to rot. Theology aside, it must be a common understanding that the pursuit of money (filthy lucre) is empty in its self and cannot stand alone.

There must be a stronger foundation. There must be purpose behind profitability. If the sole purpose of survival is to do business for profit and just for profit regardless of the extrinsic consequences then where do we stand but in a pool of our own death. This is the sour underbelly of the platform upon which we stand; the platform of Capitalism. What started out as free trade has grown into the ugly monster of greed. No longer is the human element of prime interest, only the self, self gain, self indulgence, self promotion, and self satisfaction. These ideas have burrowed into the subconscious of our nation and they infest our institutions. We have become a self serving Empire of gluttons more concerned with the color of our cars and the cut of our pants than with anything substantial.

When our president bows in respect to a foreign leader and his adversaries attack his actions for their own political advantage I see nothing but signs of sickness in our nation. What happened to friendliness, kindness, and all human decency? Are we so concerned with the appearance of power and control that we forget to be human? It angers me that we call the real world a place that we must put on a different face in order to enter it and exercise leverage over our fellow man. All this competition to gain and maintain power has cost us the very thing we are fighting for, our freedom and human decency.