goforgold said:
this I also love how the response to share the wealth is always "NOT in the constitution" yet when 'is capitalism in the constitution?" is brought up it's always "next question" |
Your argument is very strange.
If wealth-redistrubtion isn't allowed due to constitutional constraints, then the form of economy must default to the other choice, regardless if it is mentioned in the constitution.
We should legalize marijuana then go on a global campaign of dropping barrels of weed on all countries instead of bombs. Then instead of having to pay for dropping bombs, pissing people off/making them hate USA, etc.. they will pay us for the weed and be happy. Sounds like a win/win to me. Too bad the pharmaceutical, paper, cotton, oil, etc.. companies would give their left nut to keep marijuana illegal. We could be leaders in the marijuana economy.
PS.. Trickle down (literally taking a piss on the poor)/voodoo economics doesn't work.... You usually just have the rich holding onto more money. When you have <1% owning a vast majority of the wealth then it is pretty obvious that economic system isn't working. Seems like we are just back in the middle ages. You have the ultra rich protected by the military against the poor. If you want to call that democracy then so be it. I call it a monarchy or oligarchy.
Obama should have shown some balls and just went for the middle class cuts to stay. He should have restored the rich tax rates to what they were under Clinton. OMG I have to give up so much money... The rich cry. It is so hard to live off of 500k a year.... Try living off of 20k a year you pricks. I worked my ass off for most jobs and they barely pay shit because they know they can get away with it considering the economy is pure shit. Take a look at CEO pay rates for the past 40 years compared to the workers pay. CEO's are getting paid way too much and have increased their salaries leaps and bounds past the average worker salary growth rate. Just study and work hard is all they tell you to do to be successful. Well, it helps a hell a lot more to be born into a rich family than trying to work your way out of the shit infested job market that is available to most people. American dream must be a dream of debt. Keep you in debt thus placing you forever in the rat race.
Few notes:
- Legalizing pot (as much as I want it) will not make a significant dent in the deficit or economy. It would likely have a $50 billion dollar effect on the economy, which is very large for a single sector, but still pales in comparison to the $3 trillion we spend every year.
- Even if the US had no standing army whatsoever, no military at all, you still haven't balanced the budget. You've only solved about 1/2 of the debt problem. Of course, that assumes we survive long enough for the Canadians to invade with their bagged milk and mountees.
- You assume that those who are rich are static in that top 1%. They are not. Each downturn and upswing cycles in many, many new people that are rich, and many that become poor. For example, 10 years ago, Mark Zuckerburg was a kid in school. Now he's a multi-billionaire. Studies have shown that even among the ultra-riches, their progeny are only 10% more likely to be ultra-rich themselves and within just two generations, there is no statistical difference that those ultra-rich will have grandkids that are rich too.
- Take a look at CEO pay rates vs. their entire workforce. We had this argument a few months ago with Vetterman and his job at Catepillar. The employees wages comprised 99.8% of all wages spent, with the remaining 0.2% going to the CEO. Therefore, those that have the largest impact on wages are, by far, the workers, not the CEO. Furthermore, you make the poor assumption that being born rich is the key to success....Which shows why many people are poor in America. Many love to blame CEOs, the ultra rich, Barak Obama, rather than take a look at their own life and personal development to see what they can do to be better off. Few bother doing that, and will always remain poor. Not because of the CEO, but because they fall into traps of materialism through debt which does far more harm to them than a CEO.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
