Vulture Capitalism

After decades of ordering stuff from Cabela's by mail, my wife & I paid a visit to one of their stores near Reno.  We don't follow business news too much and didn't realize that Bass Pro had bought the company.  We asked some of the employees about the change in ownership and we got averted glances and non-committal responses about the whole deal.  This week, I found out why.

If you have any doubts that some of the heavy hitters in our financial class don't have America's best interests at heart, watch Tucker Carlson's piece on the takeover of Cabela's and the destruction of Sydney Nebraska.

Our economy must serve Americans - providing jobs, salaries, profits, taxes and supporting healthy stable communities.  Some in our financial class have lost their moral moorings, putting profits ahead of people, communities and their country.  Small town America is paying a very high price for this.   This is an abuse of the economic freedom our plutocrats are so lucky to enjoy.  To make matters worse, they appear to have bought our politicians and created a system that provides cover for their predatory business practices.  

President Trump's 2016 election was in part a repudiation of this system which appears to have trampled on people on the bottom - blue collar, rural people in flyover country in particular.   We need to build an American economy that works for everyone,  putting our neighbors, communities and country ahead of an unbridled thirst for profit. 

While this isn't a plank in The Alliance Party platform, it should be.

-- Mike Power