From: cwarren@peg.pegasus.oz.au
Newsgroups: aus.politics
Subject: Re: Compulsory Voting.
Date: 27 Jul 92 00:33:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:hoconnel.711000454@adelphi:728416550:peg:996200252:000:3402
Nf-From: peg.pegasus.oz.au!cwarren    Jul 26 19:33:00 1992




Ye Gods, What Blindness

In a previous response a "hoconnel" in all innocence asked
for examples where capitalism does not work.

All he or she has to do, is walk past the local dole office
and you'll see the faces of thousands for whom capitalism
does not work.

Pass through a rural community and you'll see apart from 
the auctioneer, struggling farmers for whom capitalism does
not work.

Sit in on bankrauptcy hearings and you'll learn of others for
whom capitalism does not work.

Talk to social services groups like ACOSS and hear of yet
more people for whom capitalism does not work.

Try to meet church groups like the Brotherhood of St Laurence
and they'll tell you of more for whom capitalism does not work.

Spend a night with the Sydney City Mission or at the Salvo's
and you'll start to learn a thing or two.

Talk to trade unions and worker's struggling on $8 hour for life.
Maybe then the penny will drop.

Talk to environmentalists and they'll show you examples a-plenty
of capitalism destroying life.

Visit a local government welfare officer and more people for whom 
capitalism cannot work will be added to your list.

Take a train to the Illawarra, go via Redfern.  Then tell me whether
capitalism is working or not.

Check out the record of our failed and gaoled entrepreneurs,
judges, and politicians.  What does this tell you?

Now look at the riots, arson, homicides and drug addiction in
USA and UK.  Is this capitalism - working?

Or what about the destitute who try to beg a bus fare and sleep
in cardboard boxes.  Or mental patients turned out of their
homes.

Walk through downtown and you'll see streets of gangland
ghetto's and boarded-up shops.  But don't stay too long because
capitalism doesn't work there either.

Ask the American Indians relegated to their reservations, what
they think of their lot under capitalism.  They'll let you
know it suxs.

Open up any newspaper and you see what an unmitigated disaster
capitalism has been all around the world.  In Asia the
Philippines and South Korea are in ferment, wages elsewhere
are a pittance, Japanese capitalism is now collapsing; all
of Africa is practically bankraupt, thanks to Western Capo's;
Eastern Europe has been torn asunder by capitalism which has
not brought what it promised; South American capitalism is 
a general basket case;  In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
they die by the hour uncared for by capitalism. 
For most of the world's peoples capitalism has brought, 
famine, disease, moral decay, violence, destitution, and
heightened nationalistic and ethnic fervour.

Check out other postings on other networks  and try to come 
to a more mature view.  If you read other postings here you'll
see evidence that Australian profits have declined.  Think
about it for a minute and you'll realise that capitalism
has an inherent tendency for profits to fall. 

Check out the stalled GATT talks and you'll see another aspect
of broken-down capitalism.  Review the world stock markets
through the late 1980's and early 1990's and you'll see
ample evidence of failed capitalism.  Look at US deficit 
and our CAD.  Maybe then you'll learn a thing or two.

But firstly have a good look at yourself.  Your academic ivory
tower has insulated you from real humanity and, its OUR taxes
you are using.

Anyway all this is old news, the question now is what is to
be done about it all.





CHRIS WARREN


 
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