I love to write — it is so therapeutic. It exercises my brian and occasionaly I write something original and good. The below comment was sent to me by an individual whose is obliviously disappointed on the way his world is turning out. I attempted to answer him with a rational but firm jolt of reality. Help me find someting to say to help bring some order to this man’s life.

I am going to call him Demi, and below is his email to me:

Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:11:34 EDT

Perhaps a good example of “capitalist economics” would be today’s announcement by Circuit City that it is firing 3,500 workers and will allow them to re-apply for their jobs in 10 weeks at a lower salary. ALL THIS WHILE THE TOP EXECUTIVES RAKE IN MILLIONS. That’s how loyal, hard-working employees are rewarded under “capitalist economics”.

So-called capitalist economics is decimating the middle class which has built this country and made it great. The soul of this nation has been moved from Main Street to Wall Street so that the soulless bansksters and corporadoes and global multi-national profiteers can enrich themselves while the rest of us suffer —- a kleptocracy if there ever was one.

But there is some good news —- the man and woman in the street are beginning to realize they’ve been had and they will rise up and challenge these outsourcers, these exploiters of cheap labor. The K Street Project and the Project for a New American Century will soon relegated to the scrap heap of history, and this administration will go down as, by far, the worst in the nation’s history.

My answer;

Thanks for writing and sharing your views. Although, from my perspective a little harsh. The fact that a company is going through hard times isn’t any concern for you. The fact that they employ 45,000 people doesn’t matter to you. The fact that the government not only taxes Circuit City on its income but also taxes the money it pays to its employees is not part of your equation. Your emphasis on those 3,500 people who lost their jobs makes me believe that they have all been given a death sentence.

All comforts you have are innovated by people, manufactured, marketed and distributed by entrepreneurs under the rules of free market capitalism and none of it by government. The only products that our government has any control over is students and here in Los Angeles a 70% high school dropout rate amongst minorities is not a good record. With an undereducated workforce where else are we going to get good labor? Overseas.

Since we are talking about globalization in terms of free market capitalism, lets examine diplomacy. You insist that we talk to our sworn enemies, and elicit help from our global allies to avert wars. Yet, you are so insistent on oppressing developing democracies by not outsourcing from a country that is fully employed.

Our government is built on protecting Free Market economics. Our Government was not instituted to compete with people, nor telling people how much profit they can or cannot make.

If our government were to hire a thoughtful person like yourself to tell corporations how to spend their money how soon do you think it would take for Circuit City to completely close up shop? Not to mention the potential and probable corruption inherent in that kind of power. From you lack of objectivism I would not want you telling me what to do.

What about Barbara Streisand charging $250 a ticket? She makes $100 million a year while most of her crew gets minimum wage.

Minimum wage earners, if compelled to save 15% of their wages, could retire a millionaire and live comfortably on a monthly $10,000 interest payment. But because the Government compels them by threat of imprisonment to fork over 15% of their income to them for so called entitlement benefits, the worker only gets$1,300 per month upon retirement. Where is your sense of fairness or justice in this, the biggest governmental scam in history.

You are not considering there are 300 million people in this country 6 billion world wide. Where do you think they are going to get their t-shirts and tennis shoes? There medical treatments and there fresh water? From Castro?

There is only one economic system that has proved it can feed all its people while providing a good living for all. So criticize it all you want but we are not a socialist nation and in fact it is socialist policies that are killing this Country. If you don’t believe me look at Social Security, Education and Immigration issues.

Where is the compassion in that.

I respect your passion but I think it should be directed toward things that really matter like education, crime, gangs, homeless and poverty.