The Pitfalls of Capitalism

I don't normally do this many rants on governments, an I apologize to the few readers I do have. Maybe all of this government talk is because of the political talk around the next government and who's going to be president. I mean, the television ads for each candidates campaign are playing daily (and a bit too much so).

Anyway, I was sitting in the back of a car earlier today, nothing to do, and I started thinking about how great of a concept capitalism is. Yet even as I sat there, I couldn't help but wonder why if the idea of capitalism is so magnificent and should work, then why does it keep failing? I mean, successful capitalism says that there is a competition between companies that keeps each company striving to be better than the other ones. That there will always be jobs because there is always items that people want. That if one thing goes, then another thing will soon replace it. So in theory, it should always work as long as everything in the environment allows (as in we don't completely destroy our environment in making everything work). Still, it has failed in the past and, in America, it is failing again...