Ideas from a run down cabin

Heres the problem.  Every one is crying for blood.  "Send the corrupt CEO's to jail"  "Raise Corporate taxes",  "Why bail them out? What about the small business?" 

Lets be real for a moment.  The CEO's are not to blame... Taxing them more won't solve any problems... and Small Business should adapt to keep their client base.  That is how a Free market system works.  This is the true model of a capitalist economy there are ups and downs.  People who bank  on the good times do very little to prepare for the bad times and people who prepare for the bad times do even better during the good times.  That is pure and simple Capitalism.  Watching the DOW right now I can see that stocks are down 468 points.  Everyone is screaming "OH NO" but hey thats just how capitalism works.  I don't have any investments (never made enough to be able to invest) so hey who cares. Let it fall.  After all thats Capitalism isn't it?  I am sick and tired of the Haves telling the have nots to quit whining when times are good and stocks are up but when the markets fail and times go south the haves scream louder than the have nots did when times where good.

Did you Know that if we took the fortune 500 companies and placed them under Government Regulation and distributed the profits through out the infrastructure of the nation we would have better roads, better military and better education and health care programs.  Did you know that if the Government had regulated the stock market more closely the fall would not have been so severe or happened at all? Those who want less government in their lives are the same ones who right now are feeling the markets pain.  They are the same people who believe that we can do things better with out regulation and intervention.  Well  the market is now 680 points down today while I write this so I ask  Are we better off with less government?  Are you happy with having to pay back 700 billion dollars that corporations just borrowed.  Talk about paying twice for a product or service.  Your Government was established to protect you the citizen from adversity and takeover from foreign forces.  It was to be the first line of defence for your "liberties" and "Freedoms" protecting your right to live free from oppression and with out fear of reprisal for speaking your mind. 

Yet as the markets fail you become more oppressed less able to move freely through out your country. You are tied more closely to your job than you were a month ago because if you lose your job you lose your ability to pay for those things that are considered essential.  Housing, Health Care, Your kids Private School.  Not to mention that if you lose your job your government loses its ability to provide you services because it can't collect the various taxes that it relies on to provide you with Public Schools for your kid, State run Health Care for those who can't afford regular insurance through ones work, Your roads will decay, your police protection will suffer and your society will degrade even further. This is the Reality of the Capitalist Free Market system. 

So I just want to leave you with this one cold hard truth.  Capitalism is not the protector of your Freedoms and liberties,  It does not grant you any more Freedom than any other Economic system and infact the Free market system of Capitalism  makes people less free.  It enslaves them to others with more money or in a higher position.  The belief that one can become more than what they currently are is not something that is limited to a Capitalist economy but it is used more frequently in a capitalist economy to control and manipulate a person to work as hard and more than they would otherwise in an effort to become the "more" that they are told they can become.  Yet your status is still controlled by another who has more power where is the freedom in that?  So... Do you still want to complain about your stocks or the mortgage crisis? Do you really think that our form of economics is the end all be all?  I should say it is not. 

We need less government like we need a hole in the head.  The government needs to control those things that we rely on most.  It needs to be stronger and needs to be run by the people not to corporations, it needs to be run for the people not the lobbiests, and it needs to provide basic neccessities to every person.  Health Care, Education and strong industry for people to earn a living.  That is the true basis for a Communist Economy and one that we need now more than ever.