Ted Rall for August 03, 2009
August 01, 2009
August 06, 2009
Transcript:
Corporate profits are up. The reason: reduced payroll costs. (Man: Sales are zero. But we laid off so many workers, profits are up!) Ultimately, companies become balance sheets in space. (Television: Conglomco is now nothing more than a Twitter Account. It's a strong buy!) You might think there's no future in constant cost-cutting. But you'd be wrong. (Man: We're using loopholes in Labor Law to fire people who don't even work for us.) 200% unemployment: Capitalism made perfect. (Woman: I regret I only had one job to give for my country.)
If citizens of our country are expected to survive according to “Sink or Swim”, we have to make sure everyone is thrown into the same pool, and nobody’s parents are allowed to give them waterwings. Until that point, anybody who maintains that we have anything RESEMBLING a “level playing field” is deluding themselves.
When someone asked JFK whether it was “fair” that he had the advantages of inherited wealth behind him, he famously replied “Life isn’t fair.” And that’s true. “Life isn’t just” either, but that hasn’t prevented every functioning society from trying to IMPOSE justice on Life. Even if an established “Fairness System” could only yield results as approximate as the “Justice System” that we rely on, it would be a vast improvement on the status quo.