Posted: May 02, 2013 7:46 am
The usual nonsense from the anti-capitalism crowd that can't separate baby and bath water. Get's tiresome.
If the guy in the commune next door scampered off with the marijuana plants would you diss communes?
If the administrator of the pension funds skims the money - would you diss pension plans?
If the school principal raids the kids lockers for pocket change do you diss schools?
It's a stupid stance to conflate the criminal and unethical aspects of ANY system with the system itself.
People make decisions to act unethically or criminally.
Society/gov can make that easier or more difficult by way of oversight and regulation.
The failure here is not an ism but of oversight and regulation which was severely dismantled by the likes of Bush, Thatcher and all the self regulating market ditzes giving the predators a free hand to steal unchecked.
Until the knee jerk anti-capitalists get that message no rational dialogue is possible.
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one wonders if FMs pension plan comes by way of snouts in the trough since he worked in the military industrial complex.
If the guy in the commune next door scampered off with the marijuana plants would you diss communes?
If the administrator of the pension funds skims the money - would you diss pension plans?
If the school principal raids the kids lockers for pocket change do you diss schools?
It's a stupid stance to conflate the criminal and unethical aspects of ANY system with the system itself.
People make decisions to act unethically or criminally.
Society/gov can make that easier or more difficult by way of oversight and regulation.
The failure here is not an ism but of oversight and regulation which was severely dismantled by the likes of Bush, Thatcher and all the self regulating market ditzes giving the predators a free hand to steal unchecked.
Until the knee jerk anti-capitalists get that message no rational dialogue is possible.
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one wonders if FMs pension plan comes by way of snouts in the trough since he worked in the military industrial complex.