Showing posts with label capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capitalism. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

The American Robin Hood

I live in a supposedly "Christian nation" where people are left to die on the streets because banks have taken their house, where people can starve to death because they cannot afford food, where money is worshiped above all else, where in teaching we are all equal, but in practice some are much more equal, where any concern is drowned out by the media, who wants us all to conform to the apathy shared among the general people.
I live in the United States where they practice "Social Darwinism" and deem any alternatives as satanic.where Robin Hood is the villain and the likes of Ebeneezer Scrooge are the heroes.




Here in the United States we blindly follow politicians who promise that they have the interest of the common people in mind, then they sell us out the the rich, the banks, and corporations as soon as they are in office.
It is as if we favor politics that punish the poor.


Some even take it a step further, saying the rich should be taxed less and the middle/lower class should be taxed more, so the wealth can "Trickle down" (haha.)



The American Robin Hood, after the jump.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

the Puritans and the capitalist merchant.

The Puritans didn't take to kindly to capitalism. I love them for that.
the following comes from Puritan John Winthrop.

1.     At a general court holden at Boston, great complaint was made of the oppression used in the country in sale of foreign commodities; and Mr. Robert Keaine, who kept a shop in Boston, was notoriously above others observed and complained of, and, being convented, he was charged with many particulars; in some,