Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Life Without The Left

Here are a just a few of the things America would be without were it
not
for liberals in the White House:


- Regulation of banks and stock brokerage firms cheating their

customers



- Protection of your bank account


- Social Security


- A minimum wage


- Legal alcohol


- Regulation of the stock exchanges


- Right of labor to bargain with employers


- Soil Consevation Service and other early environmental programs


- National parks and monuments such as Death Valley, Blue Ridge,
Everglades, Boulder Dam, Bull Run, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Mount
Rushmore, Jackson Hole, Grand Teton, Cape Cod, Fire Island, and San
Juan
Islands just to name a few.


- Tennessee Valley Authority


- Rural electrification


- College educations for innumerable veterans


- Housing loans for innumerable veterans


- FHA housing loans


- The bulk of hospital beds in the country


- Unemployment insurance


- Small Business Administration


- National Endowment for the Arts


- Medicare


- Peace Corps

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

More About Capitalism

In a preface to an article from the Christian Science Monitor, the editor of the Progressive Review Had this to say:

Unmentioned in this story is the real reason countries are worried about a population implosion: despite it being desirable and even necessary for the ecological future of the earth, it will mean replacing capitalism with some other economic system. You can't have capitalism without expanding markets and you can't have expanding markets without population growth.


It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that capitalism as we know it cannot continue forever. As less and less Manual labor is involved in manufaturing and population growth slows (and it will sooner or later) there has to be a way for the average person to make a living. Failing that class warfare will be the result. Plain and Simple.