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What the founding fathers wanted was a level playing field and COMPETITION amongst businesses. We don't have that now. We have Corporatism with the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN BED WITH the BIG corporations who are helping them shut out competition from the smaller businesses In the old days a corporation couldn't even be formed unless the product was going to benefit society in some way. A company like Monsanto never would have been allowed to incorporate.
I'd rather have a level playing field; everything privatized; strong property rights; the government only stepping in if someone is infringing on someone else's individual rights or causing harm in some way.....than what we have now. That is for DARN sure.
So you are in support of government reigning in big corporations???
What, the north and south would have sat in a circle and hummed Kumbaya?? You seriously believe that slavery and civil rights for a "large segment of society" would have "worked itself out"?
Sounds to me like you were born long after the Civil Rights Act had done the bulk of its work and you have no clue as to how nasty life was for a large segment of Americans.
Evidently it all could have been taken care of in a business like way if you look back at how other nations throughout time have handled it. Also evidently Pres Lincoln wasn't as anti-slavery as people think.
Evidently it all could have been taken care of in a business like way if you look back at how other nations throughout time have handled it. Also evidently Pres Lincoln wasn't as anti-slavery as people think.
Why are you hijacking this thread to a diss on Lincoln? That is not the thread title. I don't need to watch the video. I learned in HIGH SCHOOL (I can do it too) that Lincoln didn't really care if he freed the slaves, he was more concerned with preserving the Union. He even said that.
Why are you hijacking this thread to a diss on Lincoln? That is not the thread title. I don't need to watch the video. I learned in HIGH SCHOOL (I can do it too) that Lincoln didn't really care if he freed the slaves, he was more concerned with preserving the Union. He even said that.
Just for the record, I don't think its possible to hijack a thread that you started yourself.
The British got rid of slavery by buying the slaves and releasing them.
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