[EM] RE: Election-methods Digest, Vol 10, Issue 34

[Simmons, Forest]

Well said, Mike.
 
Every time I hear that the program I was listening to on Public Radio was supported by a generaous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation I think of the workers and their families who were shot by private security forces (Brinks) and national guardsmen for striking or being with the strikers.
 
The invisible hand of the market was covered with bright red visible blood on that day.
 
Forest
 
 
 
 
 
 
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:59:37 +0000
From: "MIKE OSSIPOFF" <nkklrp at hotmail.com>
Subject: [EM] The idle and the working poor
To: election-methods at electorama.com
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Russ said:

If the "idle eat the bread of the working poor" it is usually (though
not always) because the "idle" (or their parents) somehow managed to
*produce* something that the working poor either *need* or *want* bad
enough to pay for voluntarily.

I comment:

Well, the Kennedys got it by crime. And can you guess how the robber-barons
got that name?
Russ says there are exceptions, as there are a few notable exceptions to
most general rules.

Much of the money of today's rich was made as, or arose from by, profits
made during times when the people who actually did the work were thoroughly
cheated and robbed to such a great degree that no one denies it now. That's
common knowledge. Remember the robber barons?

And that's not even counting the fact that, though the North didn't have
slavery (at least not as long as the South did), much money and many
fortunes, even in the North, were derived from slavery in the South, and
financial and industrial empires were launched with that loot.

Then there's the fact that America carved its destiny out of the American
Indian. Believe it or not, much of the wealth in this country derives from
the land that was stolen, via  mass murder, and habitually-broken treaties,
from the Native Americans.

So, next time you hear someone get all worshipful about private property,
consider how the property was acquired.

Suppose my father killed your father, and took everything he had, and then
gave it to me. Does that make it rightfully mine?

The idle and their parents don't do the producing. They do the taking.

Mike Ossipoff


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