Last Straw

U.S. Sen­ator Bernie Sanders:

For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the gov­ern­ment provid­ing health­care to all people is just unima­gin­able; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infra­struc­ture. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sud­den, yeah, we do have $700 bil­lion for a bail­out of Wall Street.

Schnews:

For years we heard the same old story about how there’s never any money for a live­able bene­fits sys­tem or a decent min­imum wage, but some­how UK plc finds bil­lions of spare cash to sup­port cor­rupt busi­nesses that are in a mess only because of a greed that has benefited no one but their share­hold­ers. For years we’ve heard the man­tra that the free mar­ket must be allowed to run unfettered – yet the most ‘cap­it­al­ist’ gov­ern­ments are nation­al­ising huge com­pan­ies left, right and centre. It just goes to show that cap­it­al­ism is a myth and the sooner we stop wast­ing money prop­ping up a failed sys­tem that will never work — the better.