Until we put people above profit, this country won't be able to fix a damn thing.

[debbierlus]

We need to start framing our talking points and discussions around this basic premise.

We can't fix healthcare because we refuse to place human health and quality of life above industry & shareholder profits.

We can't move forward with clean & green energy because the coal and oil industries won't allow the development of other resources.

We can't work towards peace because our economy is centered around a military industrial complex that pillages dollars away from any program that would advance peace and help the social contract.

We can't provide adequate job stimilus because the borrowed bailout money went to the profits of the banking system that brought America to its knees.

The capitalist system has mutated into a destructive monster that doesn't allow for progress, creativity, ingenuity, or human healing. And, until we address this reality, the economy won't heal. Until we address this truth, we won't provide universal health care to our citizens....we won't have clean energy...we won't feed the hungry...we won't solve anything.

The system is designed to maintain the profits of those vested in the status quo.

[mike_c]

1. bingo!

Rec'd!

[Blue_Tires]

2. kick

[wtmusic]

3. False dichotomy

We need both.

[DireStrike]

4. Nope.

Only one can be top priority. You CAN see to people's needs and still have some profit... but if profit is first, people's needs will not be adequately met.

[wtmusic]

6. Yep.

Profiting IS a need (individuals can profit, too). False dichotomy.

[DireStrike]

11. Profit is not a need. Food, water, shelter, medical care.

These things should all be guaranteed before somebody starts skimming off the top for him or her self.

[madmax]

5. What you said, and public financing of elections. n/t

[Pharaoh]

7. YES!

K&R

How simple and obvious, why can't we get there!

[tk2kewl]

8. value people above profits, work above wealth.

:kick:

[kerrywins]

9. Corportism can only exist with government enforcement

thats why these bastards lobby washington.....so they'll give them more goodies....

what we need is more freedom....

[MrsCorleone]

10. K&R!

[chill_wind]

12. Jesus loves bonuses. The Goldman Sachs Bible tells me so.

We need serious, serious campaign finance reform as the key to all else.




In October, Brian Griffiths, an International adviser to Goldman Sachs told a panel at St. Paul's Cathedral in London that inequality helps us all, saying, "We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all." Griffiths also used religion to justify his stance, saying, "The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/john-varley-defends-bonus_n_345385.html

[blues90]

13. I agree . But I don't how we can do it.

We need to take the power and put it back in the peoples hands.

They have everything fixed. Perhaps next election no one should vote but then there are two parties and one side will vote.

If this country were not so divided and we could just get on the same page and realize then the people would all benefit.

[inna]

14. KR

[earth mom]

15. And until people realize that Obama & Congress are protecting the status quo....

nothing is going to change.

[Nikki Stone1]

16. AMEN!

:thumbsup:

[The Doctor.]

17. I'm working on it.

I just need about $5M.

Seriously.

[thereismore]

18. Socialist! nt

[clear eye]

19. Kick.

Too late for rec.

[bluethruandthru]

20. Well said! n/t