Let's call them what they are: job destroyers.

[gkhouston]

The 1%, both in and out of Congress, don't give a shit about job creation. If their delicate ears can no longer bear to hear the class-war term "rich" :eyes:, I think we should refer to them as "job destroyers", not "job creators".

[valerief]

1. Parasites. nt

[gkhouston]

2. Useless greeders. n/t

[HughBeaumont]

3. Job Cremators:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2010/09/it-pays-to-fire-people-multi-millionnaire-ceos-get-richer-richer.html

[valerief]

4. Good one! nt

[RKP5637]

5. I think in history, capitalism will be seen as a great failure. It will be

replaced. The "system" is just not going to hack it for the 21st century. It worked better with smaller populations, less globalization and less contrived/rigged markets. The inequities of capitalism are inherent in the model by definition.

A skewed wealth distribution is a given with manipulative unregulated behavior, but the advantaged will control most of the power and hence the system survives, and many will lose.

And that's the way the system works IMO under capitalism.

[HughBeaumont]

7. A linear system . . .

. . . that depends on perpetual growth fueled by infinite resources, infinite cheap energy and infinite wealth in a world where none of those things exist. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? :sarcasm:

The only way this ever could have remotely worked is with regular and progressive redistribution of wealth, ready replacements for the outgoing careers, constant invention, regulation, universal health care and universal education.

Unfortunately, the human element of greed rendered all of what could have helped it dead.

[socialist_n_TN]

9. Yep. The big thing is the perpetual growth part of it

Which is running up against FINITE resources in all areas, energy and hard resources included. It was a step up from feudalism because it allowed for a more efficient growth of wealth, but now...not so much. NOW we need a better way to distribute that wealth. Socialism.

[RKP5637]

10. Yep, it's kind of like riding down the tracks on a train headed toward a train wreck. I was

talking with someone on DU about this one night and they said similar, "the human element of greed rendered all of what could have helped it dead."

And they said similar of all '-isms' ... that human greed does just about all systems in. Ha, what we need is a tamper proof system, but who would hold the keys to that one? Maybe Diebold voting systems? LOL

[gkhouston]

6. ...

:thumbsup:

[socialist_n_TN]

8. Yeah, I thought of something similiar a couple of weeks ago

As in those "Job destroying tax cuts". I forgot to use that line in my meeting with Corker's staff today. Damn.