Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
  • Mood: angry

Murder Through Starvation

Speculating on staple foods causes poor people to starve.  Remember that it is murder when one person knowingly causes the death of others.  Being rich and powerful does not make it other than murder, other than evil.  Also note that a majority of the perpetrators are white; a majority of the victims are people of color.  That's not an accident either.

Perhaps the perpetrators will be reincarnated as pearlfish.
Tags: activism, economics, ethnic studies, news, politics
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ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

July 4 2010, 14:29:03 UTC 10 years ago

Shifting land from food production to idle entertainment is frequently a bad idea.
rhodielady_47

Re: Well...

rhodielady_47

July 4 2010, 19:51:28 UTC 10 years ago

People forget that the money regulation laws that were put into place during the Great Depression were put there to prevent another depression from ever happening again.
And they did until those laws were taken off the books.
:\
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Well...

ysabetwordsmith

July 4 2010, 20:13:31 UTC 10 years ago

I noticed that, yes. It's another reason I think those ill-gotten gains should be removed from the robber-barons and put back into circulation where they can do some good.
rhodielady_47

Re: Well...

rhodielady_47

July 5 2010, 04:04:10 UTC 10 years ago

Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen thanks to a little bill they managed to railroad through congress last year.
Congressmen can now get unlimited funding from corporations--there's no way any congressman is going to forgo that source of campaign funding!

It's amazing to me that it came and went on the news in just a few hours but stuff that's only opinion gets chewed over like bubblegum for weeks.
:(
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Well...

ysabetwordsmith

July 5 2010, 04:44:36 UTC 10 years ago

>>Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen thanks to a little bill they managed to railroad through congress last year.
Congressmen can now get unlimited funding from corporations--there's no way any congressman is going to forgo that source of campaign funding!<<

Yes, that's true. But they're going to find out that an economy with no sound foundation, and a government run as a plutocracy, are not going to work and will stagger from one crisis to another. That's dandy for distracting the masses -- but sooner or later something critical is going to hit the big hard crash.

>>It's amazing to me that it came and went on the news in just a few hours but stuff that's only opinion gets chewed over like bubblegum for weeks.<<

Like the corporate-owned media are going to cover something that awkward, that doesn't involve sex?
rhodielady_47

Re: Well...

rhodielady_47

July 5 2010, 05:12:51 UTC 10 years ago

"Like the corporate-owned media are going to cover something that awkward, that doesn't involve sex?"

I can't argue with that.
:(

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