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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later.
They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.[1]
I never believed it was anyone else's responsibility to educate me or my children. But that doesn't mean that I and they didn't take the scholarships and grants made available---just as we took the tax breaks available. However, taking advantage of those things means taking the time and making the effort to discover what is there and working to be deserving of those perks.
I'm fully aware that there are times when hard working folks fall on hard times. But those folks dust themselves off, adjust their lives and go on.
To them we're the equivalent of a dog. Your money is whats important to them
originally posted by: pl3bscheese
a reply to: Jamie1
Think of it this way. Money is a symbolic link and means to the procurement of resources greater than can be used all at once. It was created as a universally accepted medium of exchange that solved the issue of needing to carry large, and heavy physical goods.
One problem solved, others created. In the context of this thread, the main problem would be the ability to accumulate and secure more resources than would otherwise be possible without it's creation. If we think back to pre-agrarian times, there were merely physical goods which could be accumulated, and power could be held in concentration through the usefulness of your actions and words. In the 21st century, it's gone way beyond this. There is inherent leveraging from the creation of money, and the multitude of financial mechanisms in play in today's world, whereby those most successful within the current structure are able to acquire more than a couple orders of magnitude greater control, expanding to much larger spheres of influence.
Now, I'm not hinting at a solution in the form of the abolishment of money all together, rather trying to bring perspective. Theft is wrong, but allowing the system to play out without various counter mechanisms is just not wise in the least. I'm all for something else to be done. So how do we go about leveling the playing field, and course correcting our path?
This "theft" you speak of, has been going on for a very long time in the form of taxing the rich. There is no evidence of a slippery slope which you seem to be alluding to. There is a tension of forces at play, which tug and pull from a little more this, to a little more that way.
Just wondering if somebody thinks it's cool to take money from other people for themselves
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
The "threshold" is when you have more money than even your pal called 'God' could spend.
Get with the program.
How much do you REALLY NEED?
Look it up. Taxation in the USA.
Roosevelt. New Deal. en.wikipedia.org...
It was Reagan who started this whole crap system. ALL of the happiest, most prosperous countries in the world (Scandinavia) have high tax rates and AWESOME social services.
Do your homework and stop being so self-centered.
The "threshold" is when you have more money than even your pal called 'God' could spend.
Get with the program.
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
a reply to: Jamie1
You know very well what I'm talking about. If a person is so wealthy that he would never, ever be wanting, then he is wealthy enough to share.
This 'inheritance tax' that everyone is frothing about only applies to people who have so much money they don't know what to do with it (except, of course, to hide it off-shore and spend a few incognito months look for another super-yacht while they continue to earn 350% MORE per hour than the employees who make it all happen).
Disgusting.
Sharing is something willfully done.
I don't know what you're talking about. What amount of money does you neighbor need to have for you to feel justified to walk into his home with a gun and demand he give you his money because he has more than you?