That is the dilemma that we are facing when it comes to the free enterprise system.
At what point are we going to put a stop to all the insane excesses of the wealthy and the corporations? What is the great advantage, what are the benefits exacted from protecting and promoting a plutocracy?
Certainly it is not consumerism or the hunger that the 99% has for cheaply made goods in some forsaken land sold at a Wal-Mart that albeit being the largest employer is also the worst of them, not offering benefits and totally treating employees as second class that are just part of the equation to make a profit.
The question for us Americans still remains on the table: Are we willing to give up our freedoms, our dear democratic process, hand over our hard earned dollars to the very wealthy and the corporations in exchange for the privilege of purchasing cheap trinkets made to break down once you got them home?
No doubt, I have said this before a dozen times; the free enterprise system is the best of economic systems there is but it has to have regulations or greed will overwhelm everything. Nothing can exemplify this better than the oil monopolies; they are influencing politicians and buying their way into perpetuating a deadly game of carbon-base energy consumption even when they see they are not just destroying the environment but may very well be destroying the planet by making it unfit for human habitation.
So, are we going to give up the cow (in this case our gas guzzler) for the goat (a polluted environment) and is this a wise exchange?
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