The United States of America – the land of unlimited possibilities. Most households have less than $50 in savings, you can be fired from your job in a minute, and if you can’t pay your rent, you have 10 minutes to vacate your apartment! This really isn’t a cartoon or a Dickensian novel set in early 19th century England. This is the real Biden’s USA. A country where entire large neighborhoods live entirely on welfare, where the population of these nejghborhoods spends most of its time doing drugs and gang wars, and where executive compensation soars to absolutely absurd heights. But when a guy who’s worked all his life loses his job (for reasons beyond his control), he’s out on the street in a matter of days. Even with small children. That might be acceptable for someone who has been making a mess for a long time, disturbing others, hasn’t paid ten fines, and I don’t know what. But not with people trying to live a normal life. Meanwhile, Congress is passing a trillion-dollar economic recovery program, with most of the money going straight into the pockets of bankers and senior executives.
Most households have less than $50 in savings, you can be fired from your job in a minute, and if you can’t pay your rent, you have 10 minutes to vacate your apartment!
By the way, notice the double standard. When someone gets kicked out of his apartment for political reasons, it’s an act of a criminal regime (unless he said something politically incorrect, that was his due). If he gets kicked out for bank profits, good for him, he’s on his own.
We in the Czech Republic have had two difficult traumatic periods. The economic crisis of the 1930s and the brutal terror of the emerging communism (later the regime took on a humane form where people did not live badly). In both periods, people were fired from their jobs, driven from their homes, and experienced oppression and stress. In both periods they died needlessly. In the former from poverty, malnutrition (and in the shooting of protesters), in the latter at the hands of the communist secret police.
One side of the political argument today says that communism was terrible, the other says that capitalism before it was terrible. It’s hard to decide. Every human story is unique, some people were more affected in that regime, some in the other.
The reasonable conclusion is that a good political regime cannot ignore the suffering of its citizens.
The reasonable conclusion is that a good political regime cannot ignore the suffering of its citizens. And that suffering citizens don’t care if they are killed by the market or by the repressive elements of the regime. The second reasonable conclusion is that in every regime there is the misery of individuals. But if such suffering exists en masse and systematically, and the government does nothing to counter it, it is a bad and despicable regime.
It would be an internal American affair if the US didn’t have a constant tendency to provoke wars with supposedly worse regimes, and if it didn’t have a tendency to drag us into those wars.
