If Capitalism Is So Awesome...

In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. 
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Volume I,  p.296

If capitalism is so awesome, why was it that atomic energy and the atomic and hydrogen bombs were invented by a bunch of nerdy government contract workers? Employed in something called the Manhattan Project...

If capitalism is so awesome, why was the internet invented by another generation of nerds, that again was working for the government of the United States? Most right-wing wack balls don't even know the origins of the internet! And they will argue quiet hotly, that it was private industry that developed the whole thing and concept!

If capitalism is so awesome...

If capitalism is so awesome and efficient, and the best creator of wealth, why do Canadian people have to retire two years later at the age of 67? And to add insult to injury, they will have to contribute more to eventually receive less.

If capitalism was so awesome, wouldn't we be all retiring earlier? Like at the age of fifty five? I mean if it is true that capitalism is so awesome....why do we even have to work at all?

If capitalism is so awesome, and education is valuable to the continuation of capitalism, why is education becoming more and more expensive, of lesser quality, and the guarantee of less wages than before?

If capitalism is so awesome, why is crime actually starting to look like a promising career choice? I mean, just asking...

If capitalism is so awesome and all, why do we still have children still living in poverty in the richest countries in the world?

If capitalism is so awesome, and so profitable, why is so hard to get corporations to pay their damn taxes?

If capitalism is so awesome, and government such a drag and stifling influence, why is that when corporations "too big to fail" always go to governments for a bail out when their micro-dicks get stuck in the sharpener?

If capitalism is so awesome, why do big or any corporations even have to bother to "lobby"  government?

If capitalism is so awesome, why is it steadily failing you?