rogue yam says, “creative destruction is an essential, inherent and inevitable part of capitalism. Inefficient and failing companies are restructured so that their assets can more productively be used resulting in greater prosperity for all.”
Given the imperfection of man, this is essentially correct. Some businesses will succeed, some will fail. That does not make the underbelly activity of feeding off these failing businesses, as a Vulture Capitalist, something to be proud of.
Sure Romney is swimming in cash, and people ooh and awe over this.
But when has — what amounts to a mortician — ever been elected to the office of the President, even if he is a rich mortician?
Is it realistic to expect the American people, in general, to feel good about someone who had handled dead (economic) bodies his whole life, and made himself rich by so doing?
It is really very similar to the housing foreclosure industry. People lose their homes, and the vultures rush in to claim the corpses. And they can make good money off of this “business”. But their money is always connected to the failure of others.
It is very similar. The money is always tainted with the tears shed over broken dreams.
This is the bottomline. For Romney to succeed, others had to fail first. That is the story of his life, and it is also the story of his deep pocket wall street backers.
Is this person, who has made his wealth navigating these rivers of tears, an individual the American people will take to their hearts, and say, he is the kind of man I want to lead this country?
I don’t think so. Obama’s story, as an individual, as the first black president in American history, is much more compelling from a human interest standpoint. Here is a man, in Obama, that represents the apex of the centuries old dream of Americans of African descent for respect in this nation. That’s pretty powerful.
The life story of an economic mortician is going to trump that? I don’t think so.
The only candidate that can come close to matching the human interest story angle, is Newt Gingrich, who rose from the most humble beginnings to become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives after leading a successful revolution that gave Republicans a majority in the House for the first ime in 40 years.
Please set aside a few minutes each day, for the remainder of May, through the month of June, July, and August, to pray to Almighty God for the resurrection of a united Gingrich/Santorum campaign that will inspire real enthusiasm in the base for victory. With God, all things are possible.
The crazy is deep in you.
The general tenor of the site is such that you have become completely unmoored.
There is no community left to corral you back into your safe space.
This isn’t your fault alone.
The hounds of crazy have been let slipped.
Any number have been swept up.
This may be how FR ends.
Barking, barking, barking at will-o’-the-wisps.