tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086136476855589174.post6956621756821100377..comments2024-03-27T02:15:30.590-07:00Comments on AS IT STANDS: Random thought: Stop calling Social Security an entitlement …ImBlogCrazyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06114155503257613636noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086136476855589174.post-3062861125883503102011-07-22T14:22:03.527-07:002011-07-22T14:22:03.527-07:00The corporate capitalist system doesn't care a...The corporate capitalist system doesn't care about elders or disabled or sick or infirm if they can't make money off these people, people like you and me and eventually every single one of us. Social government is a contract by the people to have a decent society but in America, social government is held hostage to corporate capitalist interests which override humanitarian concerns or ideas of a government organizing society to benefit ALL members and not an elite of wealthy ones.<br /><br />As it is, America's economic system, corporate capitalist, aims to rid the whole system of what it considers economic leeches, us again, who are no longer in the workforce producing salable products for corporate profit. So they lobby the Republicans who are led by these very same corporate interest, their campaigns financed by said corps to the benefit of corporate capitalists, not your benefit but theirs. <br /><br />Socialist systems that incorporate capitalist enterprise and not vice-versa, ones like the Scandinavian models are what's needed here but as long as our media and elected representatives are being bought off and overwhelmed with ads and money, the chance of the average citizen getting accurate information comparing European healthcare systems to America's for example, there won't be change. Republicans and their media corporations will see to that, that any accurate info from Europe or NZ or other places with humane and sane healthcare systems won't be heard or if heard buried under a ton of opposing ads and political campaigning against it social democracy, the right of all free people to have the best system they as a whole can devise.Steve Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13731109814328159838noreply@blogger.com