US capitalism and homeless youth.

The extreme right in the US are always on about the family and family values. The general propaganda of US capitalism is always trying to portray the US as the best country for families and children. The truth is that US capitalism is a nightmare for millions of US youth. 

Federal studies show that at least 1.6 million, yes 1.6 million, children run away or are thrown out of their homes every year. The numbers are rising dramatically as the economic crisis has hit. Fewer than 30% of teenagers have jobs. Obama and his Republican and Democratic and corporate gang gave over $700 billion of tax payers money to the big banks and Wall Street criminals. This would have gone a long way to help families and young people to have decent jobs and a place to live. But no for Obama and his Democratic and Republican and corporate criminal gang it had to go to bail out the billionaire criminals not the homeless and the poor.

Most of these children who run away or are thrown out of the family home end up living on the streets, parks, under highways or wherever they can get shelter and away from the cops. These facts alone condemn capitalism as a rotten and decayed system, one that has forfeited the right to exist. It has to be overthrown. 

But this will never happen with the Democrats and the Republicans and their corporate bosses in power. In todays New York Times there is an article entitled: "The economic bomb that didn't drop." It is referring to the financial crash and how it diid not bring down the financial system. The article quotes Neel. T. Kashkari who has been a stooge for both Republican and Democratic administrations. He says the bomb did not drop because "The leaders of America's rival political armies ceased firing long enough a year ago to pass the $700 billion bailout that prevented Wall Street from imploding." He goes on: "The way a democratic administration talks about certain issues is probably a little different. But the substance of the actions, I think are very consistent." He says: "A Republican administration would have followed the same course had McCain won the presidential election - albeit with less populist rhetoric."

This confirms all we have argued. Fundamentally there is no difference between the two capitalist parties the Democrats and the Republicans. When things get serious their policies are the same. They always have and always will bail out their capitalist bosses. They got together to bail out Wall Street. They got together to make sure that the $700 plus billion hand over of working peoples taxes went to Wall Street and not to the homeless kids and the unemployed. This was a conscious decision. They came together to represent and act in the interest of their class, the capitalist class. Obama, the Democrats, the Republicans, they all represent the capitalist class and the capitalist system. 

We have argued all along that the problems of working people cannot be solved by the present political parties and the present system. We work to build a Working Peoples Party.  That is a party that would be based in and represent the working class and not the capitalist class. Such a party could only do this if it broke from the capitalist system. So we fight for a Working Peoples Party which will end capitalism and implement democratic socialist policies, that is will take the great centers of wealth out of the hands of the minority undemocratic capitalist class and put these under collective ownership and run them under democratic workers control and management. In this way the wealth of society would be used to solve the problems of the youth and working people. 

Sean.