Sunday 28 August 2011

CUT OFF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE???





       In this weird and exploitive system of capitalism, some times great effort is put into something and just when those responsible think they have success, up pops another problem caused by their success. The state of Arizona has been working away diligently trying to close its border with Mexico. According to The Centre for American Progress, there has been $115 billion spent on beefing up the border controls in the last 8 years, and the Arizona Border Patrol has double in the last seven years. So now that they are beginning to pat themselves on the back with congratulations as they think they have cut the number of people getting across the border, along come some moaning minnies. It seems that the Arizona farmers are complaining as they are now in trouble because they can't get enough migrant workers to work the farms. So it looks like that the US tax payers have paid $115 billion to cripple the Arizona farmers, ah, that's capitalism for you. This could be a case for some joined-up thinking and one group speaking to the other. Of course in a free and decent society there would be no borders.

2 comments:

  1. Not capitalism -read Adam Smith. Its gangsterism

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  2. Well gangsterism it might be, but to my way of thinking that is capitalism. I don't believe in benevolent capitalism, such a beast never existed. Whatever the label you stick on it, it is still exploitation on a small scale or a large scale or a massive sale. Ah, that's capitalism.

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