...serving the common good.

American-style capitalism isn't the answer to good financial health. Oh, it is, for the few. The people at the top. Those with the yen to get monetarily rich. But most of us, it seems to me, would settle for far less. For the basic necessities of life. A roof over our heads. Three square meals a day. Guaranteed adequate health care. A job. A retirement income. A decent amount of leisure time. Peace. Contentment. With relatively little gap between the rich and the poor. So that the rich aren't so rich. And the poor aren't so poor. A nice distribution of the wealth. A system designed for the common good. Not for the good of a relatively small ruling elite. If that sounds more like socialism than capitalism, so be it. Our ruling class in America has been greedy. Right from the founding of the nation. With an economy based largely on slavery. On subjugating a whole class of people. Dividing us. Into superiors. And inferiors. Into whites. And blacks. The writers of the Constitution declared that all men are created equal. They really didn't believe it. Not only were blacks unequal. But women, too. And money became the source of power. That's the way it is in the American capitalist system. Built-in inequality. Doesn't seem right to me. Never did. But I was told that America is the land of opportunity. That America has been blessed by god. That other peoples should follow in our righteous footsteps. That America is good. And that some other countries are evil. Well, folks, I think we're all in this together. The entire Earth. Everyone. And that it's time to scrap capitalism and find something better...something serving the common good. --Jim Broede