Another informative article published by The Guardian (21/08/2011) in the UK, critizising a lawless, exploitative, unregulated, extreme form of capitalism that robs the average tax payers to enrich a small feral elite:
Why are the failings of capitalism only being exposed by the right?
Quote from the article:
‘As the financial indices in the City, Wall Street and beyond continue to lurch downwards, and the eurozone staggers into an uncertain future, Oborne continued the moral excoriation of contemporary capitalism with a post-riots attack on the “feral rich” in our society. His particular targets were the bankers bloated on bonuses, the lucrative offshore tax arrangements of businessmen such as Philip Green and the MPs who condemned rioters from the comfortable vantage point of their second homes, furnished at taxpayers’ expense.
Even Douglas Carswell, one of the more right-wing MPs among the new Conservative intake, has joined the fray, arguing that “the free market all too often turns out not to be a free market at all, but a corporatist racket for the few”. That judgment was approvingly quoted by Dominic Sandbrook, the Daily Mail‘s favourite historian, who castigated the capitalist system’s inability to deliver on its most fundamental promise: equality of opportunity.’
Read more here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/21/ed-miliband-capitalism-rightwing-critics
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