Freekin’ BURN UP their lines with your objections to the FED and Timothy Geitner and Larry Summers and Hank Paulsen and Bill and Hillary and Podesta and Rhom Emmanuel and Wolfson and NAFTA and GATT and the 15,000 lobbyists on ‘K’ street-- ALL of whom believe we rubes deserve/and-or/are too stupid to do anything but keep producing for the ‘elite.’
Complex? Yes.
WHO can print money?
Only “The Fed.”
And WHO does the “Fed” take care of?
Business interests and the wealthy.
And who employees the 15,000 lobbyists on ‘K’ street - you and I? - the citizens? - NO!
WHO writes the Legislation?
You and I; the citizens? No!
Who writes the Legislation?
Our duly elected politicians?
NO!
Oh, and the “Business interests…”… they are the second or third tier parties who determine what laws and policies are written into Law.
It is the MONIED.
The Wealthy.
World-wide.
In every government.
These are the folks who determine the fate of every “worker” in every country, no matter their Geography, Form of Government or stated dedication to their “people.”
OK
Let me guess. You are between 17 and 22 years old? In that case, you are right on schedule.
If you get a little older, as we are, we don’t spend our time flaming people on messageboards, which is the cyber version of having heated political discussions in campus dorm rooms. Instead, we spend our time at our jobs, which, often, if we do them right and with passion and knowledge, allow us to make an actual difference for the better in society.
If the polar opposite of what I have witnessed in the OP is called the Wall of Text, then what is the OP? Streams of Consciousness? Pillar of Meaningless?
I know how he feels. In case anybody can turn this bundle of incoherence into a discussion of fiscal policy or anything else, I’m going to move this to Great Debates.
Ummm, I don’t have a Congressman/woman. What should I do?
I hear by watching American TV that they can easily be bought. Can someone out there buy one for me and ship it north of the border? I’d appreciate it very much so I can help this young man out …
Oh, for Christ’s sake, enough with the melodramatic schoolboy formatting.
I will start with a hero of mine called Mill, who advocated individual freedom both socially and economically in order to maximise utility. I consider that plutocracy diminishes utility because vast swathes of the population are denied the benefits of the innovation resulting from individual freedom, requiring plutocracy to be confounded by true democracy in the form of progressive taxation. However, if such taxation is too great, innovation is itself confounded due to disincentivisation of investment and risk, and a future of retarded progress is IMO a future of unnecessary suffering.
The polar opposite of ultra-free market plutocracy is Marxism, in which taxation is effectively 100% and individual economic freedom is crushed underfoot by a totalitarian boot. Capitalism has its flaws, but I would defend it against this kind of ‘socialism’ perhaps with my very life, if I were brave enough.
I’d suggest putting it into Cafe Society, where we can all sip on our lattes and discuss turning the OP into a script for a movie. – With Michael Moore as director, of course.
