Reply #12: You make a fine capitalist [View All]

Yes, people deserve good wages but a big part of the reason why wages have to be so high is because the money-changers charge more interest than the value of the home so when those carpenters etc go to buy their own homes their just as indentured as the people they build homes for.

Once the home is built and the price tag is slapped on it the carpenters and shingle makers have been paid in full. Then come the bankers with their usurous interest rates.

And sorry I'm not buying into the "your own money" canard. The banks are pretty much printing--or not printing--money in whatever quatity they need to control us. It's the leash they use to make us heel. A recession is, by defintion, people with money refusing to move that money into the economy. That hurts the poor first and foremost. Others more accurately call it a "capital strike." Don't give the bankers enough of that green, green goodness and they'll take back what little they gave you to begin with until you smarten up and get back in line.