joegolfergI just want to set the record straight:
I am not for socialism
I am not for communism
I am not a liberal
I am not a conservationist
I am not a democrat
I am not a republican
and I am damn sure I am not a libertarian either.
I am just a straight up free thinker that belongs nor persuaded by any political party or political ideology
True Socialism fails, history has shown us this.
True Communism fails, history has shown us this too.
True Capitalism also fails, which history is trying real hard to show otherwise.
True Socialism kills incentive
True Communism kills free will
True Capitalism kills opportunity
Of those three, true capitalism is the lesser of those evils, and that is the one we should roll with, but it needs its tweaks to make it work for everyone here in the United States.
You bring up the UK many times in your posts, and a particular candidate. I live in the United States. our countries are vastly different on both a local level and on a worldwide level. what works for you guys over there is different that what would work over here.
Government ran anything except for military is a bad idea in my humble opinion. this includes (but not limited to) heath care, power/electric, transportation, hospitals, etc etc
It does not take a rocket scientist to see how government ran programs are flat out awful, wasteful, and redundant.
The amount of money the government wastes on their programs would put people in jail for corruption if they tried that in the private sector.
We here in the USA need a big military presence, we have a ton to protect here, and throughout the world, mainly, because nobody else really steps up and offers to help "enough" to take the burden off of us. Now while I personally do not agree with much of what I just wrote in that last sentence, I would pull out of many places and let the rest of the world clean their own rooms, as long as they did not venture into my back yard.
So with that said, ya, I would not cut any military budget at all, it would show weakness and that would bring in bad things.
Back to the topic of the other stuff I was on about.
I believe its best to end just about all of the free handout programs we have here. Entitlement is in full bloom here. As somebody who has lived in 3 and a half different regions here in the USA, and traveled to just about every state with the exception of the northwest, I can safely say, its the same everywhere I went. From California to New York, and down to Georgia, and everywhere in between.
Jobless single mothers popping kids out left and right, living off multiple forms of public assistance, from housing to wic to the food stamp program (that now looks like a ducking credit card, no shame popping out a food stamp in the form of a credit card)..........all on our dime.
I am now forced to buy into a healthcare plan that it is highly unlikely I will not use for years, totally wasting my hard earned cash, cash I could have saved for that rainy day looming ahead, where and when ever that may be.
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Back in my early 20's, I lived in eastern North Carolina, I had a job at a furniture rental store, my title was both "Delivery" and "Repo".
I will leave the name of the town out because its info not needed, but in this town, there were certain areas marked as "Project Housing". A quite a few of our customers would come in at the beginning of each month and rent stuff they knew they could not pay for, but we delivered anyways, banking on the fact we had a high chance of getting that stuff back. You would not believe how shitty these neighborhoods were. Places where their rent was either free or dirt cheap, all paid by others taxes. Yet most of these people had nice cars parked outside, cars I could never afford on my at the time salary, and these people were either unemployed drawing unemployment or working crappy part time jobs (i knew exactly the case,....I reviewed their applications on the rentals) making just a fraction of what I made,.....and I didnt even make that much myself, so you know it was a low amount, like a hundred bucks a week they earned.
Not only were these people (of all races by the way) glad to take hand outs, they also did not care to find better jobs or any jobs at all. And the opportunities were there, I lived there, this town was busting in the seems, growing in all directions but one (cant grow into a military base.....the marines would not have liked that). There were hundreds of construction jobs (both residential and commercial) openings, as well as transportation construction openings, there were jobs on the base for the taking, the never ending food and entertainment jobs, and farming jobs,... though industry jobs were lacking as this town did not have much industry other than what was on base. These people just didnt want to work,.....when they could get by with doing as little as they could, you can kinda understand why.
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the million dollars on that maximum wage was just a figure tossed out there, for that to ever be taken seriously, it would need to be researched hard.
it sole idea behind it is to just open up more opportunities for others (who we would no longer give handouts to) to earn their way up the ladder.
Capitalism looks great on paper, but its problematic when the top keep getting further and further from the bottom, leaving less and less crumbs for everyone beneath them.
The answer is not to give handouts at the bottom, and perhaps the answer is not to cap the top either, but we have to find a better solution than the handouts at the bottom, it just does not work.
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Try to picture this scenario in your head:
Take a one dollar bill, split that one dollar into 10 dimes, give those 10 dimes to 10 people. all seems fair. now these 10 people all do different jobs and they must trade between each other to survive.
take those dimes that each person has, and turn it into 10 pennies each. we still have a whole dollar if we add it all up.
people soon realize that some stuff is simply worth more than other stuff, because its harder to get, mine for, make, whatever the reason. so not too far in the distant future, 1 of those people now holds 91 pennies, and the other 9 people only have 1 penny each. So now the one person with the 91 starts loaning out his currency, but at a price. Not too far into the future, that one person now owns 2 whole dollars, even though only 1 dollar exists.
The rest was just borrowed currency.
That one person now owns everything, and the other 9 people all work for him just so that they can get by and get fed.
there is no reversing this pattern in this situation.
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another example of this is much easier to understand:
Check Advance Companies.
They let you borrow a % of your weekly pay before you get your paycheck. Once you get your check, you take it to them and pay them back, the amount borrowed plus a good 20% or so. Now you need to repeat the process because you just gave your entire check out just minutes after getting paid. This turns into a never ending cycle until you find outside help to relieve you from this nightmarish cruel business.
Once could say, the check advance company was nice enough to help you out for that first week when you really needed the help......but this is false, they are not there to be nice, their only goal was taking your cash, each and every week for as long as they could. you work,.....and they earn 20% of your earnings. and they did not have to lift a finger to do it.
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so the saying...."the rich get richer" is very true.
i should stop.
