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Originally Posted by coollikeme  Ask health care and social security programs. |
Watch Sicko to see how things run in countries that do have national systems -- it's completely different. Human life actually matters, for one thing.
Private industry has a vested interest in creating human slavery. There's profit to be made in treating people like capital. Whether it's debt slavery, sweat shop slavery, creating a problem only to offer a costly solution, whatever. There are a million ways to take advantage of people to make a profit. And private industry does just that; when it's unregulated, it's known for taking massive, destructive advantage of people.
Saying we shouldn't have our government regulate industry is laughable. The failures you cite are because our government policy has been BOUGHT by the private corporations. The issue is not that the government is involved, but that they are not involved objectively. Lobbyists write policy and it shows.
Again, corporations are not out to look for people's best interests or wellness -- they are only out for their own bottom line. When it comes down to who actually ends up with the money it's only a tiny fraction of society. A properly regulated and accountable free market is one thing, but that is not at all what we are seeing today.
I don't know if you saw my statistic earlier about Morgan Stanley owning the majority of heating oil in New England, and intentionally inflating the prices on it. How is that in anyone's best interest except perhaps the main shareholders of Morgan Stanley? Answer is, it's not. It's not in anyone's best interest for that situation to take place. But people are so ignorant that they will accept this total travesty of economic policy, and then most are so guilt ridden that they will proceed to beat themselves up over not having enough money to pay their gas bill. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley is laughing all the way to the bank, while average citizens are stuck choosing between baby formula and heating oil. Oh, wait Morgan Stanley is a bank anyway, so they can then create their own level two and level three derivatives off of the oil futures they monopolized. This is also only allowed because government policy lets it happen. It doesn't have to be that way.
To say that the private companies should own all the natural resources in our country, and then distribute them only to those who they feel deserve them; that's not freedom, it's fascism. To bill that as somehow being a good thing for our health and wellness as a country overall is ridiculous. The corporations would just turn us all into wage slaves for their benefit -- why should we live that way?
You end up with ridiculous occurrences. One company getting paid to demolish a bridge, and another to rebuild it. Who benefits there? Only the owners of the companies who do the demolition and the rebuilding. Meanwhile 99% of the population struggles to get by, because there is no health care, no day care, all the tax money is being spent on war or on blowing up bridges and then rebuilding them, whatever. Not on improving life for the average citizen.