capitalism at its lovely best

Bob and any lovers of Capitalism, 

 

To the capitalist, human suffering is a resource, just like large numbers of unemployed, or the growing number of elders, or our public education, or our social security, or our Medicare.  All of these resources are opportunities for exploitation.  The capitalist is skilled at convincing you that what you have are lemons.  He takes the lemons and makes lemonade and then sells you your lemons at huge profits.  Even though the last thing you wanted was lemonade. 

Oh well, that's a lousy example, but it's early out here on the Great Olympic Peninsula. 

The point is, we average Americans think of how tragic this super storm was, but the capitalist thinks of how to move in and grab off the pieces, package it and sell it back to us at huge profits. 

And where will the displaced people go?  Not the problem of the capitalist. 

But hey, the capitalist goes to bed on a full stomach with no guilty feelings. 

Carl Jarvis

----- Original Message -----

From: Bob Hachey

To: Blind Democracy Discussion List

Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 12:27 AM

Subject: Re: goodly letter

Hi Joe and all,

I am very concerned that the poorer neighborhoods of New York and New Jersey including parts of long Island will be yet another chapter in Naomi Klein's The shock Doctrine. If this happens, we will get more high priced hotels, boutique cities and the like at the expense of poor and middle income Americans.

While the government has certainly done better in dealing with Sandy than it did with Katrina, it looks like it's more of the same old shit for those living in poor neighborhoods and public housing.

I saw reference in one recent piece about how Cuba does a better job doing storm recovery and I'd love to see more specifics on that such as how severe was the storm, how long did it take to get power restored and was the damage in Cuba comparable to some of the worst damage in New York and New Jersey.

Bob Hachey

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