Our gun policy is dictated by the National Rifle Association. In keeping with its ethos and capitalistic need for expansion, this association has flooded the country with a number of guns that approaches the number of its citizens. A bill was backed by President Barack Obama, who's made gun control a signature issue since December's horrific shootings by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left twenty young children and six adults dead. The president, a vocal advocate for passing gun control legislation, had this to say in questioning why his proposals have failed in the congress:
" How can something have 90% support and yet not happen?" The answer is simple. The congress is owned by the NRA. The Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court gave the NRA not only the right but the power to purchase the congress to insure that gun manufacturers could market their despicable product with no regulation.
There is but one solution to the immigration dilemma, and that is to enforce the laws already on the books. I refer to the laws that prohibit employers from hiring illegal immigrants. Here again, we see the bottom-line mentality of capitalism, which mandates that labor costs must be kept at an absolute minimum. There is no question but that the odious practice of hiring illegal immigrants at insufferably low salaries should be properly labeled "wage-slavery."
It should be clear that there is no place in a pure and unregulated capitalistic system for entitlements of any kind. They are viewed as unadulterated incentives to avoid work. It is my belief that any government that does not in some fashion assure that each of its citizens has the necessities to sustain life (food, shelter and health care) is a failed state.
Our pathetic system of education is a particular calamity in this capitalistic state. It is unquestionably designed for two purposes. The first is to provide for industry a competent work force. The second is to provide for a neurotic society a sufficient number of sychophants to maintain a stable populace. The true purpose of education should not be the simple passing on of knowledge, but teaching the student to think. Therefore, any reform in education should begin not with the question of how best to teach but of why we are teaching--not of methods but of purpose.
One of the great fears during the last election has been and remains that the incoming President will be in a position to appoint perhaps a multiple number of Supreme Court judges. The election of Donald Trump could mean the end of Roe v Wade and a continuance of Citizens United. It would sanction both the government's intrusion into a woman's right to decide and the capitalist's money declared equal to freedom of speech.
Of course, it is in the interest of the capitalistic system to preserve the second-class status of all minorities. What more need we say?
Could it be that the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith has plundered man's nobility?
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