"Capitalism Isn’t Working For Workers".. Really?

So, the G8 conference has commenced in Halifax this week, and, no great suprise - Toni MacAfee, education and organization officer for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, was arrested already.. "for no reason."

I'm sure.

I find it interesting that these groups who protest haven't yet got the message.

We don't care.

No one in the voting public sees the protest and goes, "Now there is a sensible point."

Because they don't really make a point.  Theirs is not to create - but to destroy.  Their personal goals, for the most part, are anarchy and chaos - leading, presumeably, to fascism or Marxism.

They are just anti-government, anti-business, and - taking a page from the current opposition, are basically complaining about life, but doing little of anything to offer up a better plan.

Take Toni MacAfee for example - seeing as she is in the news anyway.

Front and centre on her Facebook page is a picture of the Cuban flag next to Che Guevera.

For those of you not completely familiar with Mr.Guevera, besides the striking picture that simpletons like to adorn their t-shirts with (and apparently their facebook pages), Mr.Guevera was a terrorist, who, along with good friends Fidel and Raul Castro, successfully over-threw the Cuban government, only to replace the prior despots with new and more cruel and vicious despots.

I recommend watching this documentary regarding Che Guevera.  Hardly a saint - more properly, accurately described by a former Cuban in the commentary:

I am Cuban and I know the hard reality of Che Guevara. He is not the hero that people assume him to be. He killed and tortured hundreds of Cuban citizens; he was thirsty for power and seized the opportunity to fulfill his sadistic tendencies while he was Castro’s right-hand man. Nobody in their right mind in Cuba supports Che Guevara, they just can’t admit it or show any can’t talk against him because he is the epitome of the Cuban Communist Revolution, and anyone who shows opposition is prosecuted by the Communist government. I know the history and felt its influences while I lived in Havana; I’m glad the rest of the world is being exposed to Guevara’s other face.

Toni is also, according to her facebook page, a big fan of Emma Goldman.

Who is Emma Goldman, you ask?

Well, Emma Goldman is a big fan of anarchist political philosophy, who engaged in domestic terrorism in the U.S. in 1892, planning an abortive assassination attempt upon Homestead Steel owner Henry Clay Frick, and, later, alleged to have induced Leon Czolgosz to assassinate President William McKinley.

So..  let me understand..  Toni MacAfee is a "fan" of murderers, torturers and anarchists..  but would hardly do anything at a G8 protest to cause her arrest.  Well, if she didn't do something, I suppose one would perhaps describe her as a lipstick anarchist.

Here's my favorite comment in the article on the arrest, however, the banner "Capitalism Isn't Working for Workers".

I'm sure it isn't perfect- but I'll tell you what is worse.  Communism and Socialism.

Consider these average salaries for Chinese workers:
Airline Pilot - $761/mo;
Engineer - $252/mo;
Computer Programer - $252/mo;
Registered Nurse - $187/mo;
Minter - $145/mo;
Bus Driver - $122/mo.

Now.. it is true that in China, the economy is on a different scale from North America - so, their salaries must be compared in terms of real purchasing power.  And that does make a change - for example, a bus driver in China IS ACTUALLY earning approximately $520.00 per month when purchase power is considered.

But Capitalism isnt' working.

And I'll tell you another thing.

The ability of people like Toni MacAfee and her idol, Emma Goldman to protest and be a general pain in the ass, would hardly be tolerated by her heart throb Che Guevera.  Instead of a brief stay in a comfortable Canadian jail for a few hours, she would have received a quick bullet to the back of her head - after being tortured for a few days to name the rest of her fellow protestors.

But, yeah, "Capitalism Isn't Working".

It may not be perfect - but it's the best bad system going.