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Originally posted by Blaine91555
You are already defining a Dictatorial Government. I assume you include yourself in the "We're" who will do the dictating to everyone else what they may or may not earn, possess or do?
You did mention your Father being asked to invest with Gates. Did he by the way? If he did he is very wealthy and you are from lots of money.
I used the old fashioned Capitalism Method. I worked a little harder, took more risks, studied a little harder, chose my Peers more carefully and escaped poverty and started my own business. Only in a Capitalistic Society could I have done that.
Unemployment is still under 6%.
You really believe that a new version of the old failed USSR is preferable to this?
Originally posted by Zepherian
The reason why I won't do what counterterrorist does and try and change all of your minds is because I believe ...people have to learn things out for themselves.
You're being ripped off and brainwashed. Capitalism is not what you think it is. Sure, it has a growth phase which is great and makes for wealthy nations... but then you get the concentration phase where you get the rich consolidating and if you're not one of them you're a peon, a glorified slave.
You can have a free market with a socialist system and you can have a private property in a communist system.
And capping wealth wealth would not affect your private property, unless you're a billionaire
grow up. It's time to be mature, conscious, human beings and realise that what goes around comes around. It's time to realise it's time for peace and prosperity. For ALL.
Originally posted by drphilxr
reply to post by slackerwire
Um, i don't think that this thread will be relevant on N-day.
Nor when civil war erupts. That will redistribute wealth like nothing else - war, that is.
Originally posted by luckyfourteen
reply to post by sos37
Your under the impression there IS work. Gone are the days of affording a home, two cars, fuel for your home and two cars, groceries, etc.
in Northern BC, people are in real trouble with the lumber / pulp industry closing more plants. My friends in the service industry are having problems because they cannot afford to fuel their vehicles without raising their fees. The wages offered to the labour sector are atrocious. Something has to give.
Originally posted by SaviorComplex
Originally posted by counterterrorist
ONLY people who want to get educated, and want to work, will. This way the world will be motivated by workers who are self-motivated.
That is how the world operates now.
Originally posted by counterterrorist
REMEMBER, all private wealth originated thru murder and/or exploitation.
Patently untrue. Do you have a computer, a car, a television set, a house? All of that is considered a form of wealth. Did you murder someone or exploit them to get it?
Originally posted by slackerwire
reply to post by counterterrorist
Stand a change of smartening up your education? Seems you could use some of that yourself.
Why not just go out and make yourself successful, that way you won't be envious of those who are better off than you are?
Originally posted by irongunner
Originally posted by Desert Dawg
Who decides who gets stuck doing the work?
I wanna be one of the guys who gets to sit around waiting for my check....
Me too,
All you have to do is look at Katrina New Orleans. How many years of attempted socialism?
Originally posted by alienj
reply to post by counterterrorist
This is a great idea,,,,,why because it has worked so well for France,,,China....they live the perfect lives and have no problems at all....Maybe we can see if Stalin is still around and can help us work out some kinks. lol
Originally posted by Gorman91
uh, no. The perfect system is one of the communist like that doesn't equally distribute wealth.
I have no problem with government control so long the hardest working get more.
You're theory destroys incentive and kills nations.
Are you now changing your argument and moving the goal posts by saying it's NOT in the Constitution or are you purposefully being disingenuous in order to try and make a lame point? Come on, make up your mind. Is it or is it NOT in the Constitution? If it is, again, please show me where or admit that it is not there. It's a simple request.
Originally posted by DarkCyrus
Were living in a fantasy world. Money has no meaning. The elite people who own the privatized federal reserve banks, give the government's worthless non-backed paper. ... The federal reserve then prints more paper for the government as needed and this causes inflation. $200 billion was just injected last march. We all are debt owners because, that is how the system works. $9.6 trillion dollers in the hole
Originally posted by Vasa Croe
How well has any type of wealth re-distribution ever worked here.
Now....if you re-distribute wealth, and you seem only to be speaking in monetary terms here, how do you divide land and shelter?
Talk all you want...but redistribution of wealth is inevitable. No your 50,000/yr isnt going to get taken. THeres plenty of money. THe trillionaries are creating the illusion. Then bring out their free energy tech. and we are all rich.
Originally posted by Zepherian
reply to post by Vasa Croe
That the mega wealthy are few and far between I won't dispute. Problem is they own EVERYTHING ... they are, as we speak, seeding the 3rd world with microcredits in an effort to sucker them into the same debt based financial enslavement systems we live under in the western world and this after being the agents that kept them in poverty in the first place.
If the people of the world let the elites keep their wealth, then the people of the world will inevitably be part of that wealth -- what do you think human resources means?
[edit on 25-6-2008 by Zepherian]
Originally posted by counterterrorist
The only hope for this country is democratic socialism & equal redistribution of wealth.
We must immediate liquidate the Fed and redistribute wealth equally in the WHOLE WORLD.
That way, a person will stand or fall by their greed or love.
It's very simple.
Fortunes like Bill Gates' that were built by ripping off wage-earners -- he never would have gotten so rich unless he over-charged for computers. There's only a couple hundred dollars in each one. The parts for the orig mac were $38.
You did exactly what I asked you NOT to do. Your simplistic answer means nothing. How will the 300 million people in the U.S. alone figure out how to distribute the money? Who will oversee this plan and figure out how much money each person gets. You are giving simplistic answers which are not answers. It's only utopia dreaming.
Originally posted by onlyhurtsu
China and russia were never socialist/communist.. they still have billionaires with most the money and the rest get divided up. Thats another illusion.
Once everyone sees the scams of the superrich and their sorcery of control, things will change drastically. WE will never allow people with that much money again. Yes many will probably die taking out these fools.
I think the masters have all explained that balance is the answer. Capitalism and communism are not balanced. There can be a balance in incentive and meeting everyones basic needs with all contributing in some way.
Its so simple....Why act like "black/white" dualistic doofs.