Mechanic lives in a dream world. In his dream world, Dick Chaney lets him in through the front door and not the service entrance; though Mechanic toils with his hands, Dick greets him warmly. In his world he brunches with Dick ; they discuss the evils of socialized health care, unionism and how we need to bomb some third world country which resists our imperialist aggressions. The dream continues as Mechanic goes on a hunting trip with the afore mentioned Dick and manages not to get his rump full of bird shot.
But alas, the alarm clock comes alive with the shrill voice of the conservative talk show host dujour ! Mechanic has to wake up to the fact that he is, well... a Mechanic, a working class stiff, a Joe Six Pack (as Rush likes to put it). Mechanic has to put aside the dreams of mint juleps with Dick and reach for a cup of Maxwell House premium blend. Mechanic reminds himself that he wont see his family today, nor the next day either. After all, Mechanic is not a child of priviledge and has to work doubles in order to have an extra day off and be able to run his pool business, dabble in home rehab or work his second job.
In Mechanics dream world, the U.S was not build on the backs of cheap labor in the form indentured servitude, chatel slavery and meager wage slavery, it " was born and grew over the years by ideas, action, innovation and hard work by the Mother called Capitalism.' Of course nothing has changed. Today we have an invasion of the invaded swarming through the southern U.S. border. They are welcomed with open arms by the capitalist, who is ever hungry for new humanity to exploit. The mother of innovation is nessecity, not capitalism. There were no capitaists when fire was discovered or the wheel invented. The innovations mechanic refers to are labor saving devices. These devices reduce the ammount of labor required for production thus incresing the profit margin of the capitalist. Profit is the sole reason for the exploitaion of labor. In Mechanics dream world, the capitalist hires workers out of the goodness of his heart and a feeling of social obligation to the community. All that was in the day of industrial capitaism. Today we have financial capitalism. Financial capitalism produces nothing. It puts value to worthless paper and trades it in the rigged stock market, where the true insiders make billions from the suckers who invest in this legalized con game.
Everywhere the "free market" has reared its ugly head, it has to be implemented by slight of hand or blatant use of force. Europe was rebuilt from the ashes of WW2 through the socialist/Kensian policies of the Marshall Plan, not the "free market." Today the EU wants to implement "free market" reforms and austerity programs and is met by resistance. Most people in the world knows that "free market" means the elimination of public pensions, the privatization of state owned utilities and natural resources. This "free market" only favors a select few. That is why China is the sweat shop to the world. Its "free market" is firmly in place and maintained by the power of the ....gasp!...the Communist Chinese Government!
In Mexico, this "free market" is embraced by the U.S. proppedd ruling oligarchy. Mexico also boast the richest man in the world while the majority live in abject poverty.Many displaced malcontents are forced flee to "el norte" where they can slave away in order to send money back to their families. Next to oil, remitances are the highest cash influx into the Mexican economy.
Karl Marx called for a revolution of the proletariat. The proletariat would control the means of production. A dictatorship of the proletariat (like Platos dictatorship of philosophers in "The Republic"), would ensue. Once disparity is eliminated, there will be no need for a central government. You want limited government? Well there it is. Contrast this with the current inhabitant of the White House who has bailed out the bankers with billions of public money. This is socialism for the capitalist. Privatized gains socialized losses. I laugh when he is called a Marxist by Beck, Hannity etal. When was the last time Obama called for the workers of the world to unite and to remind them that they have nothing to lose but their chains?
