Lee Camp:
The National Bureau of Economic Research says there have been eleven major downturns in the past 75 years. You add on top of that that capitalism requires infinite growth on a globe with finite resources and you have what Houston would call…a problem. You know who comes to the rescue? Socialism. That’s right. Social programs like Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid have made it so that unregulated capitalism doesn’t eat itself alive. Yet. Then when the banks collapse, and the housing market collapses, and the big auto companies collapse, who saves the day? MASSIVE SOCIALIST BAILOUTS. I’m just saying, there’s something wrong with an economic system that has to tag-team a different system into the match because it keeps getting knocked the fuck out.
Camp also offers up the idea of creating a sustainable, resource-based economy, as opposed to Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck’s goal of privatizing everything, including water.
