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=> Trouble in Venezuela and why I dislike Public Media...

Trouble in Venezuela and why I dislike Public Media...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, June 9 2016, 1:23:03 (UTC)
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...both NPR and PBS are mere shadows of what they were thirty years ago. I can understand corporate media giving in to corporations, but PBS and NPR were supposed to be free from that...except the American government resembles a corporation more and more and since they pay a good part of the salaries and expenses they have demanded more and more "balanced" coverage...the same pablum we were used to with the others now comes to us from "public" broadcasting.

A guest on Fresh Air was discussing the reasons Venezuela is in such hard times..he explained that while the government wanted milk at prices every parent could afford..."Gee, what do you do when it costs more to produce milk than what you can sell it for." To this guy the answer is, "raise the price of milk so profit can be made"...because with no profit "incentive" I guess we'd all watch our children die of starvation.

There is something horribly wrong with this free capitalism bullshit...the critera soon will not be "can I make a profit on it" but "can the earth sustain this?"

Venezuela was hit hard because the global price for oil fell...and that's exactly what is wrong with capitalism and the profit motive for everything. As long as the profiteers make profit, you can have your milk, that is, if you can afford it...but if oil falls then you lose your job, your home, your milk, your freedom and dignity...till the prices go up again and then maybe you'll survive...only to be kicked in the teeth by the next "downturn"...and incidentally "downturn" means when that particular poker hand loses a round...but someone always wins when the rest lose....just not you.

And if there should be more children who need milk than cows who can provide then what? Robot cows...plastic milk...some substitute? Or more cows and more methane and more degradation of the environment. Or starving and malnourished babies?

We are rapidly approaching the point when making profit can no longer be the motive or excuse...what the planet can bear and when people need it will overtake us.

And no, what Venezuela tried to do, and every other socialist government tried, cannot work. Not because it;s a bad idea or unworkable but because so long as governments get their money by borrowing from private banks, private bank rules will determine who when and how much...socialism will never work so long as private bankers fund the People.



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