While this is not a blanket condemnation of all companies trying to make a profit since we need them in order to turn this economic crisis around; at the forefront of our conscience must be the rights and freedoms of those devastated so far.
All companies no matter if they are large or small must respect those working for them. Even if the corporate heads make less in order for their workers to live in true freedom. They must respect their consumers and not look to cheat them out of their hard-earned money. I am looking straight into the faces of those credit card companies. What freedom can be found in interest rates as high as 30%? There is another name for those who practice it; loan-shark.
The above paragraph is truly a utopian world and not reality based world. As long as we have politicians working on the behalf of powerful interest groups, we shall have none of that.
Let us not let these various right-wing pundits fear us when it comes to socialism. Because that is their job and they are doing a bang-up job at it. They are being allowed to distract millions of people as one after another is interviewed. Let us remind them that greed itself is one of the seven deadly sins and we have all witnessed how it has been allowed to spread as a cancer. Socialism did not destroy our economy. A free market without regulations did that.
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