Back to the big evil "Corporate Monsters" of your comic book stereotypes LH

Bankers for you, and for Bobert its:

- Oil Companies (93% of all the Oil Companies in the world are Nationally Owned);

- Defence Contractors (Forbes List of top 500 Companies first listing of a defence contractor Northop Grumman in the 153 top 500 Companies in the world that are based in America comes in at 79 out of 153, not very highly placed is it)

- Politicians.

With all the "gloom-n-doom" predictions about the wicked "Capitalist" system that were been touted on this forum 12 months ago, shouldn't we all now be in the middle of mass revolutions, wandering around in rags, gnawing at the grass?

All those huge corporations are not owned by evil capitalist masterminds who are hell bent on the destruction of mankind, they are owned by their shareholders directly, or indirectly e.g. through pension fund investments and insurance holdings.

On the subject of the last crisis in the financial sector that kicked off this world wide recession. If memory serves me correctly it was a political administration in the US that ordered a couple of mortgage brokers to lend to people irrespective of their ability to pay that set the wheels in motion.

Disaster for the people? Not on your life!! Talking of lives, is yours better than your Grandparents, Great Grandparents, I know that mine is. I also know that in a number of ways my children had an easier upbringing than I had, I know that there were more opportunities open to them than there were for me.