Capitalism and feudalism
As we can observe the debates between those two US presidential candidates recently, we learn about the visions and, characters and temperaments of the two candidates. In my opinion, Indonesia should follow suit since constituents need to be properly addressed and in turn they should provide strategic solutions and concrete problem solving action for their holistic well beings. As in the US what those two candidates present can be summed as follows Obama’s economic plan vs McCain’s economic plan is a clear case of capitalism vs feudalism.
As quoted from Char’s blog, Florida Women for Obama - Campaign for Change
Capitalism means providing incentive to the most people possible by creating economic opportunity and encouraging individual effort. Obama is not proposing handouts. He is proposing a more equitable system of providing more people the opportunity to get ahead. He is trying to rebuild the middle class.
The last 8 years of Bush, and McCain’s proposed economic plan going forward, to me represent a return to “feudalism”; that is, a small upper class that has economic control of the large masses of people, who are forced to serve them. Bush’s policies and McCain’s plans have not and will not promote a strong capitalist society. They have and will continue to destroy the middle class and promote a feudalistic society.
The middle class is the backbone of a strong capitalist economy. The worst thing that Bush and the Republicans have done in the last 8 years is to destroy our country’s middle class. It’s unbelievable to me that they have succeeded in doing this in so short a time, and that they do not admit that our current economic crisis is a direct result of their policies. If we as a nation do not rebuild the middle class, we will not progress. We will go backwards in every way.
We cannot afford any more of the Bush/Palin/McCain version of “spreading the wealth” or “re-distributing the wealth”, which is to take from the middle class and givie to the wealthy few. Greed is part of human nature. “Trickle down” does not work for the same reason that communism does not work. People in general are not motivated to work for the common good. They need individual incentive. We must have an economic system that encourages individual effort by the most people possible. We cannot expect to provide incentive to a small few so that they will provide jobs and income to the masses. We have seen that the wealthy would rather spend their profits on themselves than create jobs in the USA.
Do not be fooled by the Bush/Palin/McCain ticket into believing that our nation will return to a strong economy under their economic plan. Under them, we will continue our long slide into feudalism, where the many will be serving the few. Instead, we must return to our roots as a strong capitalist society, with a strong middle class, where there are incentives for the many to rise and build our economy once again.
There are many opportunities in our changing world, with climate crisis and energy issues to solve. We must have the most people possible working on these things, if we are to solve them. We cannot afford to enrich the few, who do not care about tomorrow but only about their own bank accounts and possessions, and are only willing to give the masses a low-paying service job polishing their yachts. Let’s let the middle class take back control of our economy and see a new generation of entrepreneurs rise.
