Most of America will be living in shanty towns in 20 years

[QUOTE=bUU;38213072]The right-wing ethic is explicitly self-motivated. So creation of firms and jobs is not consistent with their intentions, even though they may try to claim it is. Instead, the main criteria is that the investment is likely to provide the very best possible return on investment. In context, there is nothing wrong with that. A reasonable system [I][B]could [/B][/I]be structured so that each individual within it behaves in a strictly selfish manner, like the right-wingers do, but with the system regulating each individual's activities such that every individual in the system has sufficient access to the opportunity to the resources necessary to pay one's own way and secure one's own future. If people are given license to behave in a strictly amoral manner, then it is incumbent on the system to ensure it is not exploited in an amoral manner. When the system is made to abrogate that responsibility, injustice is inevitable simply because of the nature of money and power.

The problem with the right-wing perspective is that they want to [I][B]act [/B][/I]in an amoral manner individually, [B][I]and [/I][/B]they want the system to not only allow but facilitate the injustice engendered by the amoral exploitation and callous disregard they wish to practice with impunity. A great way to see the indefensibly malevolent nature of right-wing perspective is to demand a response to the question of what should become of the least fortunate in society. The answer will either be a childish evasion ("not my problem"), begging the question ("they should get more money"), or patently immoral (various euphemisms for letting poor people live short, sickly and miserable lives).

So many people are duped by right-wing media into thinking that this is an economic matter. It isn't. It's a matter of morality. Right-wingers try to "cover" morality with references to dogma rather than the practice of compassion and caring for others. The right-wing has spent billions and billions of dollars duping weak-minded sycophants into buying into the cynical claptrap devoid of humane principles. And the right-wing plans to continue to buy elections, with plans to do so by spending billions and billions of dollars more, to promote the tens and tens of billions that the most affluent gain from such antisocial approaches.[/QUOTE]

Best post ever.