Originally posted by
[email protected] 14 2005, 11:25 PM
ECONOMIC ISSUES
WELFARE
is for lazy assholes who dont want to get a fucking job.
TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH
What a cliche phrase. But those rich people deserve what they earned. Let them fucking keep it and spend it however the fuck they want to spend it.
DRILLING IN ANWR
Let them drill. The environment up there is just snow anyways and we need the fucking oil.
REGULATIONS
Fuck these fucking fuckers who fucking think they can fucking write a fucking law telling me how to use a fucking toilet. I dont fucking want your fucking sissy-ass regulations and your shitty red tape.
FREE TRADE
Yep. Exactly what it says.
Any one care to smash this? I will take the best views againt it and tell him them.
Thank you.
ECONOMIC ISSUES
WELFARE
is for lazy assholes who dont want to get a fucking job.
Oh this is classic isn't it? Blaming the exploited for not being more exploited. :lol:
There's so many ways to rip this one to shreds that I wonder why I even bother.
First off, the capitalist system being structured as it is, it is impossible for there to be no unemployment. And actually, it would be an undesirable for a zero unemployment policy to be implemented even if it is possible which it isn't.
If there were more people working the bargaining position of employers would be undermined. Its very simple. The only thing that matters to a private business in a private investor dominated economy (Capitalist economy) is profits because with more profits the company can enlarge their operations increase their production improve their marketing reach and generally edge out their competitors in the free market. But I'm only outlining the nature of all private businesses and all businesses especially the big corporations act in this way. As to why businesses do this, all you have to do is look at the stock market. The investors in the stock market is all chasing after the company that can give the biggest return on investment. The company that can sell their products for the most profits to be returned to the investors win in the stock market. And those that win keep on winning because more investment capital will be invested into your successful company. That's why unemployment is actually a good thing because it helps desperate people work longer and harder for their boss while demanding less in wages so as to lower labour costs. Lower labor costs implies increased profits for the investors. Chances are for anybody who has worked, they would have run into the classic threat from their boss: "don't like the pay or working condition or hours or .... Alright, you can quit. There's plenty of people who would love to take your job". Let's take this threat at face value. There are not that many people who would "love" your job unless they're real masochists. People who take your job because you've quit or was fired don't do it out of "love" for your job or envy for your position. They do it because they're more willing to trade in they're pride, dignity and health (mental and physical) in exchanged for being a good wage slave because the alternative would be even more horrible like being homeless and/or hungry. The truth is unemployment is a very good weapon for the bosses in addition to other weapons like police, military, courts and prison. The "lazy asshole" justification is just the other side of the same threat because by being super hard-working and dedicated to the company only lets the company save more money to be returned to investors and let go of "redundant" workers who are "lazy assholes".
Secondly, who's to say that work can't be shared or organized more rationally for the interests of the workers. But the thing is WHY you work, WHAT you work at, WHEN you work, WHERE you work and HOW you work are all controlled by WHO you work for. And the majority of the population in capitalist economies work for private interests that is people who are only interested and are driven to be only interested in one thing PROFITS (see above). So not only are you exploited when you do work and then told HOW you can be exploited. The whole way you go about finding work so that you can be exploited is set up by those with the money to do the exploiting. For example, you just can't barge into any business and say you want to work for a few days or weeks or months because your wallet's empty even though the work is boring as hell, unskilled and can be performed by virtually any moron with a half a brain. It doesn't work that way. Its "undisciplined" and "unorganized" according to business owners. First you've got to fill out a piece of paper stating when and where you've worked so they check up on you from other business owners to make sure you've been a good boy/girl. And once you do find work your stuck with how your boss wants to organize your pay, hours, schedule and vacations even though there's plenty of people willing to share your work if you get too tire or bored with it or want to take a break. Don't like all that control your boss have (see above).
TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH
What a cliche phrase. But those rich people deserve what they earned. Let them fucking keep it and spend it however the fuck they want to spend it.
If deserve means that a theif deserve his loot because he works hard at coming up with an ingenious plan to steal money then yeah, but I don't really have respect for the rich theives no matter how "hard working" they are.
First off, you can't get rich by being a worker, everybody knows that. And when I mean rich I mean rich by capitalist standards which is at least in the tens of millions. Do you know of any multi-millionaire workers (besides lottery winners which doesn't count).
Where do profits come from? The thing is when you work for a wage you are ALWAYS getting less than the value of your work, otherwise profits would be impossible. The less you get in return for the value of your work the more profits. If you want to talk about tax then profits are the ultimate tax if you are earning a wage, but this isn't popularised because the people which control the economic system and hence the media don't see it that way because they are the beneficiaries of this particular tax. Taxes from the government on the rich to support public services is the reverse of the rich man's tax PROFITS. Isn't it any wonder they oppose this sort of thing. Besides if you are a rich caviar eating, designer clothes wearing, limo riding member of the capitalist royalty you're likely not to rely too much on public services. Most rich people wouldn't want to be caught dead in the company of lowly commoners.
DRILLING IN ANWR
Let them drill. The environment up there is just snow anyways and we need the fucking oil.
First of all thats not entirely true. ANWR stands for Alaska National Wildlife Refuge so the name says it all.
Secondly, alternative energy resources can be implemented today or are in the development stage. The reason why they're not being used or developed fully from the experimental stage is again profits.
Its not profitable for the investors to implement something else. Investors are very narrow minded people. Why implement something new and revolutionary if you got a sure bet like fossile fuels which been around since the 18th century. All you need to do is pump it out of the ground, no R&D, no hiring egghead scientists, no enviromental wackos. Remember, the most important thing is ....
Thirdly, if society widely adopt alternative energy resources your stepping on the toes of a lot of powerful people whose business interests you've just threatened. They like dividends from oil company stocks and not working for a wage. They like huge mansions and private jets. They like wearing and throwing out designer clothes every week. They don't like hearing about global warming and ecological collapse. That's just too much of a party pooper.
REGULATIONS
Fuck these fucking fuckers who fucking think they can fucking write a fucking law telling me how to use a fucking toilet. I dont fucking want your fucking sissy-ass regulations and your shitty red tape.
Regulations are more about keeping these rich assholes from getting away with: slavery, child slavery, murder, assault and homicidal negligence. All punishable crimes by the way if done individually, but what these rich fucks want to do is disguise it so it doesn't become a crime if done by institutions owned and operated by them where workers work long hours in dangerous conditions and produce wealth for them by making cheap unsafe products. They also don't want to get sued if some worker gets hurt or killed by using some low quality unsafe product made in companies by other workers. These assholes want to have their cake and eat it too.
Seriously I couldn't care less if they stuff food up their ass and shit out their mouths.
FREE TRADE
Yep. Exactly what it says.
This has more to do with inter-imperialist struggle and imperialist nation - oppressed nation struggle.
First off there's no such thing as free trade in a competitive capitalist world. Every capitalist uses the nation state in which he bases his operations to gain a better bargain when trading their products and services. The best bargain is zero for everything as when an imperialist country goes to war to plunder the resources of the conquered country. Failing that, instead of outright war a corrupt government and bought-off administrators are installed into the country of choice so the bargain is something like 1 for 30 in terms of wealth transfer. For countries with about even parity in terms of industrial development and financial resources. Competition takes place by lowering the wages of workers so the products and services they provide are more easily sold to the rival country's population. That's all well and good (for the capitalists) but the thing is the other country's capitalists are adopting the same strategy to be used on "your" country.
What if the workers in most countries are too poor to buy back the products they made? Then its inter-imperialist war and ... REVOLUTION.