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Originally posted by muzzleflash
#1 ) Put a CAP on how much profit you can make
or
#2 ) Make a law where the Workers get far more % of the "profit" generated by their work
Originally posted by LettucePrey
reply to post by counterterrorist
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
Ron Paul
Originally posted by counterterrorist
'Capitalism' IS conspiracy. Make all business non-profit to eliminate stock mkt gambling.
The ONLY difference between a for profit and a non-profit business is that a non-profit can't issue stock.
THE INVESTMENT Banks OWN 99% of all the stock, NOT the public!
When an IPO happens the trading is RESTRICTED TO BANKS for the first day(s)! The BANKS value the stock in the first place, then bid it up among themselves from $15/share to $80/share THEN the public is allowed to buy it, then the prices drop back down 99.99999% of the time! That's legalized capitalism conspiracy, folks.
AND LOOK WHAT IT GOT US -- using socialism and communism to bail out capitalism.
To stop the conspiracy of capitalism -- SINCE CAPITALISM HAS FAILED IN AMERICA -- nationalize ALL businesses now! Make them non-profits. That will end naked short selling, short selling, and redistribute wealth equally taking it from the 1% of capitalists who own 99.99% of everything
...and create jobs for 100% of U.S. citizens --
WHY IS G.M. BROKE? ...because conspiratorial capitalists bled it dry by putting all the profits into its pockets. Now G.M. wants to borrow from the Fed? THAT'S NOT CAPITALISM, IT'S SOCIALISM for the rich! IT'S COMMUNISM for the rich! Stealing the labor of the poor and systematically depriving the poor and middle class from wealth.
IT'S TIME TO END centralized wealth into the pockets of the rich 1%, it's time to END capitalism and replace it with non-profit business to help us and help all mankind! GET RID OF THE THIEVES!
Capitalism is a failed conspiracy! It's time to convert the capitalistic for-profit NWO of cannibalism into a NON-PROFIT system so NO ONE CAN ROB US ANYMORE!
Why is the U.S. broke? ...because conspiratorial capitalist bankers have sucked dry all of the money into (their own) PRIVATE NOT PUBLIC pockets.
TO STOP WAR, TAKE THE PROFIT OUT OF KILLING.
To care for ourselves and our children and the family of (wo)mankind, TAKE THE PROFIT out of starvation, take the profit out of getting rid of jobs, out of sending jobs overseas.
[edit on 11-10-2008 by counterterrorist]
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Originally posted by Constitutional Scholar
Would the "workers" (a popular socialist term) also be required to pay out of their own pockets if the business were to begin operating in the red? Would the "workers" be liable for any cash outlay instead of the business owner?
Originally posted by badmedia
So what you think is capitalism and free markets, is anything BUT that. ...
If you really care, then take a look not at the name of "capitalism" and apply the things they have done over the past 100 years, but take a look at the actual definition and principles of capitalism and see how often they have done things that go against it.
How can you have free market capitalism when you have a debt based economy for example? That goes against the very principle of it all.
Originally posted by Oldtimer2
Thats one of the lamest hings I've ever heard, why would I want to run a business which requires working 24-7 and run the risk of going broke, just so I can be the same as a slacker,
this would create a who gives a damn attitude, everyone would think "why work hard, it does no good" attitude, not the American way
Originally posted by counterterrorist
I'm not sure exactly what it is you're saying.
Capitalism is defined in the dictionary as: "An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, production and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market." This makes no sense -- 'free market' -- nothing is free, is it? A market can't be free, it's not alive, it's an intellectualization. People are alive. People are financial slaves, people are not financially free.
A market economy based on supply and demand with little or no government control. A completely free market is an idealized form of a market economy where buyers and sells are allowed to transact freely (i.e. buy/sell/trade) based on a mutual agreement on price without state intervention in the form of taxes, subsidies or regulation.
So, are you arguing against monopoly?
This seems to be a very intellectual argument. The truth is the majority of the American people are in debt to private bankers who own the Fed who use fractional banking and charge us 11 trillion dollars to USE OUR OWN MONEY. If the U.S. Treasury (owned by the public) issued our own money as the constitutional founders wished, THERE WOULD BE NO PUBLIC DEBT of 11 trillion dollars, AND MONEY WOULD BE BORROWED AND LENT WITH NO INTEREST CHARGED.
In the U.S., ALL BUSINESS SHOULD BE NON-PROFIT and that would take the profit out of waging war and there would be peace.
"If this mischievous financial policy which has its origin in North American during the late war in that country, shall become endurated down to a fixture, thenIt will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe." ~ Hazard Circular, inserted in 1865 London Times, speaking of Lincoln's 'Greenbacks'.
that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt.
Originally posted by Constitutional Scholar
reply to post by counterterrorist
I am well aware of the federal reserves status, members, and unconstitutional powers.
I am talking about businesses.
Originally posted by counterterrorist
'Capitalism' IS conspiracy. Make all business non-profit to stop war & starvation & poverty
Originally posted by RKWWWW
Originally posted by counterterrorist
'Capitalism' IS conspiracy. Make all business non-profit to stop war & starvation & poverty
Are you implying that war & starvation & poverty only exist in countries that are capitalist?
Originally posted by RKWWWW
I like to think of myself as privately contracting out my labour, as opposed to a wage-slave. That way I don't feel so much like slitting my wrists.
[edit on 18-10-2008 by RKWWWW]