Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Byron Williams: Capitalism for the Poor, Socialism for the Wealthy

Another Dear Reader and skilled worker ("my tools feed my children") in construction reports that animosity between workers has been getting more pronounced over the issue of larger companies hiring unprecedented numbers of area undocumented immigrants at lower and lower wages. Even as the polarization widens between rich and poor, the corrosive elements of race hate mixed with patriotism, pitting worker against worker the corporate masters of the "free market" rake in the profits. Yet on Wall Street our government runs to the rescue. The old French revolutionaries called it "savage" capitalism for good reason. Read: Capitalism for the Poor, Socialism for the Wealthy

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