AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama

Was it money that created those technologies or the resourcefulness of individual people. Currently money is the motivation the drives all of these new advances but why couldn't we be motivated by a common desire to help and advance humanity, give me one reason why we need money to do anything.

Of coarse it was the resourcefulness of individuals, but do u expect these people 2 be resourceful if they are not rewarded for their efforts. People do need to pay bills, feed their family's, etc., etc. Would you be willing to donate weeks, months, possibly years of your life and maybe risk your entire life savings developing a vital technology, simply out of "a common desire to help and advance humanity"? It is capitalism that gives people the incentive to be resourceful.

Good speech (yes I'm ignoring all these typical comments that are nothing more than the usual arguments between fanatics on both sides).

This guy highlighted a very important point. Vote policy, not race.

I'm not communist, I'm socialist. Marx had an idea that looked like utopia on paper, the problem is that it was too extreme and its too susceptible to corruption. Not sure who engels is but Im assuming he was a communist too. extortion and protection are two different things. If we didn't have unions, no working man would get a decent salary. Success can mean living a good life, not just being the CEO of a giant corporation, the fact of the matter is, union busters have ruined the economy.

Great comment bull22289. From a fellow union brother in Australia (CFMEU).

Pretty awesome that Trumka is now the Prez of the AFL-CIO. Maybe he can help breathe some life back into American unions, and make them the force for radical progressivism the way they once were.

I never said capitalism doesn't work. I said regulated capitalism works the best. And besides, the developments you cited are not "capitalism" which is a system of economics. These were inventions, all of which were created through the innovation of individuals not large corporations. The Wright Brothers weren't even businessmen at all.

But before you said that true capitalism hasn't existed for 100 years, and now you're saying it never existed. Get your story straight. The Fed didn't even exist until 1913, and prior to that we had many severe depressions the most prominent being the Panic of 1893.

Face it, like all Paultards you've been completely brainwashed by the notion that what we REALLY need to do is set corporations free to do what they want. Really? Read about working conditions in the late 1800's and get back to me.

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