If you're unemployed, it's not because there isn't any work.

[TreasonousBastard]

79. I didn't. We started with slavery and indentured servitude with...

a very tiny government. Then, even greater fortunes were made when the President who hated government more than any others spent federal money to double the size of the country and Westward expansion built even more fortunes. The small fact that there were a lot of people already living there didn't bother us in the least.

Spending gummint money on war with Spain and Mexico to further expand the borders helped build more fortunes while shitting on some more people who were already living there-- who had already shat on the original people, btw. And we discovered China as a new source of cheap imported and disposable labor.

The common people worked in the mills and labored on the roads, but none of them built the mills or designed or paid for the roads. They deserve to be paid and treated well, but it's a myth that they built or created anything. Some rose up, it's true, but it was the Carnegies and Fords who were the forces behind it all.

You would not have wanted to work for Andrew Carnegie-- he believed most wages were wasted by workers on beer and follies instead of on bettering themselves, so paid them as little as possible. But, you get guys like that in any working system-- that's why we have wage and hour laws. Socialists and communists had their share of scumbags I wouldn't want to trade for and probably the greatest feat of recovery back in the 30's was Germany-- but we all know about that and no one of ever wants it repeated.

It's an imperfect, unjust world and we have to deal with it as it is, not as how we would like it to be.