The cancer of unregulated capitalism

[Cyrano]

If you’re like me, you know as much about macro economics as you do about the dark side of the moon.

But I know how much I’m paying for gas. And I know that price is affecting the price of everything we buy that’s being delivered by trucks which also happen to use gas.

I know that every corporation in America is raising prices because they can. Who’s going to stop them?

I know that prices in supermarkets are perhaps triple of what they were a few years ago.

I know that when my older car needs repairs, a $600 bill is a bargain.

I know that a new non-luxury car shouldn’t cost over twenty thousand dollars.

I know that many who need prescriptions must decide between medicine, food, or rent.

I know that insurance companies have been turned loose to collect any fees they want to collect, and ignore any claims they don’t want to pay.

I know that the utility companies have been cut loose to charge whatever they want to charge for water, electricity and phone service.

I know that the luxury of a family dinner out means the drive-thru at McDonalds.

I know that government aid means an 800 number where you get to hear a recording.

I know this destruction started with St. Ronnie and has come to fruition under an ignorant, and probably unknowingly malicious man named George W. Bush.

I know the Republican Party doesn’t care if people starve, suffer, live, or die.

I know there is so much else I’ve left out. And I know that our country is badly broken.

I know that unregulated capitalism is just another way of saying “Fuck the masses.”

I know we need a government that cares and imposes regulations on big business.

I know we must win this election.