[lbo-talk] Comments on NY Time article: Questions for the Candidates half

Mark Wain wtkh at comcast.net
Wed Oct 19 12:46:38 PDT 2016


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/your-questions-for-the-candidates- half-answered.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/your-questions-for-the-candidates -half-answered.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&m odule=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=op inion-c-col-right-region>

H.R.C.’s answer to climate change is very much like what the establishment used to do – promise a lot and never mind delivery details but the devil is in the details. “Enough renewable energy to power every home in America within a decade,” by the end of it climate change would have climbed up sky high. Who would pay for the cost, how much, which department would have the overall responsibility? Chances are very good that she will blame anything off the beam on the other establishment party or others for failure just as her opportunist mentor Obama who said in 2008: “[H.R.C.] will say anything and change nothing” constantly does, both never make a soupçon of self-criticism. The production and installation cost of replacing fossil fuels that almost all power plants use with the renewables will be roughly in trillions of dollars, where is the money? Most if not all capital is averse to investment in the renewable energy power plants unless they are government subsidized or offering tax-deductible, tax-break and other stimuli because the renewable industry is as unprofitable as making money on air.

She thinks the income and wealth inequality problem is a disease or virus of some kind and can be treated with all kind of remedies. That’s wrong. It comes from the system the viability of which depends on it. In a profit maximization society, inequality is very useful to maintain discipline and especially wage/salary brackets that propel work “efficiency or ethics” in a competitive job market. She says taxation will do away with inequality so did J.F.K.: “Rising tide lifts all boats,” except for those of the working poor that bilge. No, it won’t work.

In order “to reduce gun violence and mass shootings” she wants to put the gun owners and gun sellers in order. The culprits are neither. It is the discontentment with one’s work, lot, political rights, unemployment or underemployment, precarious living, falling social status and other public abasements and humiliations that cause violence and shootings, as Pope Francis eloquently said at the end of July 2016 that the inspiration for terrorism wasn’t Islam but a world economy that worshiped the “god of money” [i.e. capital] and drove the disenfranchised to violence, and “terrorism grows when there is no other option, and as long as the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person.” “This is fundamental terrorism, against all humanity.”

To sum up, H.R.C. as part and parcel of the establishment supported by “god of money” that refuses to admit anything related to its wrongdoing is at a loss what to do with the questions readers asked except bragging and boasting. By voting her in the office the electorate would be irresponsible to the transformation and progress of the society.

Mark Wain

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