Commies

Good old Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, later known as Lenin and Stalin started their revolutionary career standing on the backs of trucks or whatever makeshift podium was erected back then and riling up the working class against the evil of riches and haranguing the beauty of proletarian rule. We all know what happened afterwards. They won and created a les than utopian workers' paradise.

Right now we have two upstart communist/socialist politicians who probably have a similar goal in their sights. Bernie Sanders the US senator from Vermont and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez US representative from Bronx,  New York are these two people. I am sure there are more with similar views but these two are the most vocal.

Bernie Sanders foams at the mouth when he talks about the wealthy. Tax them, take their money away, cut their wings. Ocasio-Cortez pretty much advocates the same cliche. What the two must understand that in this country of private enterprises, businesses are owned by the wealthy and thus provide employment to the non-wealthy. There are no businesses employing 100 or more people that are owned by poor people. We know that nationalizing businesses will result in a chaos. We saw that happening.

In those businesses productivity goes down, quality suffers and eventually they all fail. To be wealthy because business is doing good is not a crime as Sanders and co. is trying to present it. Amazon was one man's creation. Other people could have thought of it but did not. Bezos did and became extremely wealthy. They are employing 950,000 or more people in the US and over 1,600,000 people worldwide. That is a lot of employees.

Now, if one has a lot of money, he buys expensive things. It is normal. Good old Bernie makes it appear it is a sin. He or they preach to take it away from the super wealthy and give it to the poor. I am sure the super wealthy support more charities than anybody else. I wonder how many Bernie supports.