12-22-2008, 04:52 PM
Dakota wrote: Here is how I look at it. Caterpillar makes the machinery, Monsanto makes the fertilizer, Exxon brings the fuel, Somebody sells the seeds, God(or nature if it makes some more comfortable) makes the rain, and Joe the Farmer provides the sweat. End of story.
What a perfect picture. This is a pretty good description (with different names) of the horrendous unregulated dark ages of the early part of last century...extensive labor abuses, child sweatshops, industrial accidents galore, unsafe food, unfettered pollution of the rivers and skies, etc. Apparently, The Jungle was not required reading at your school.
Is this kind of simpleminded thinking the reason we end up with people like George Bush in charge? Does god also come along and cleanup the messes afterwards?