Musings of an old Liberal retired teacher

Musings of an old liberal retired teacher

I feel that I should make my position clear so as not to be misunderstood. I am a capitalist! I have done well as a practicing capitalist. I feel that well regulated capitalism produces the strongest economies and the highest standard of living for its citizens.

Capitalism must be strongly regulated by the federal government. We must never follow the teachings of the likes of Milton Friedman and his advocates, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Bush, junior and senior. Friedman advocated privatize everything run by the government, deregulate everything, and bust all the unions.

There must be a strong democratic central government to serve the needs of the people.
The government must provide essential services for its citizens. Services like police, fire, and quality education.

Essential services must never be sold or outsourced to for profit corporations! If a service is sold or outsourced to a for profit company, the service will always be about the profit and not the service. The for profit service corporation will always be about maximizing profits and never the service.

The future of the U.S. Economy can not be left to the greedy unregulated Wall Street gangsters. This is exactly what Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and others did!

Bill Clinton stabbed hard working Americans in the back while “feeling our pain”!

Ross Perot would have made a terrible president but he was sure correct about NAFTA.

If total private ownership with no government regulated capitalism is so good how do you explain Enron, Goldman Sachs, British Petroleum, etc.?

If government is so bad and unregulated capitalism is so good, why do we have multi-trillion bailouts for multi-billion dollar corporations with minimum wage workers tax dollars?