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The rich elitists that wrote the constitution to begin with.
Lets not forget: property owning white men were the only eligible voters for how long??????
The revolution was all about taking control from the rich elitists in England and giving it to the rich elitists in the colonies. Pretty much the same pervasive greed that currently runs our country now.
There are some major differences between now and then though. There was cheap available land, all you had to do was move west. Education was minimal so advancement was more easily achieved. People could advance based on their own merits. Not so anymore. People are not able to advance because of the overpriced cost of living, in combination with the duration of time required to gain "skills", class mobility in this country is getting to a standstill.
The Federal Government. At the time the wealth of our nation was our vast lands and untapped natural resources. The Federal Government was given all the territory west of the Appalachians and beyond to distribute for settlement.
The Federal Government. At the time the wealth of our nation was our vast lands and untapped natural resources. The Federal Government was given all the territory west of the Appalachians and beyond to distribute for settlement.
How much did they charge for all that land and all those natural resources back then? Today the federal government still owns way too much land and they are not bashful about stopping any use of the resources on those lands. Nice try, but all I see in your post is a purely left leaner making noise.
People could advance based on their own merits. Not so anymore. People are not able to advance because of the overpriced cost of living, in combination with the duration of time required to gain "skills", class mobility in this country is getting to a standstill.
-People no longer advance on their own merits?
-The cost of living and getting experience keep people from advancing?
What percentage of the country do you think this is true for?
How much did they charge for all that land and all those natural resources back then? Today the federal government still owns way too much land and they are not bashful about stopping any use of the resources on those lands. Nice try, but all I see in your post is a purely left leaner making noise.
Negligible, often it was just the cost of the survey. Just google land patents, this system was streamlined with the preemption act of 1841 which sold land for about $1.25 an acre and the homestead acts of 1862 which stated if you homestead a plot of land and made improvements you could get the deed for the title fee about 10% of the total land of the US was given away this way from 1862-1934. Even more of it was given to railroads by the federal government and the federal government as you say still owns much of it.
The fact of the matter is, and I know facts tend to be left leaning, the federal government was in fact given the wealth of America in the form of its vast interior to be distributed by federal government at the time of the Constitution though back then it started out just with the land up to the Mississippi.
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It is the nature of our desires to be boundless, and many live only to gratify them. But for this purpose the first object is, not so much to establish an equality of fortune, as to prevent those who are of a good disposition from desiring more than their own, and those who are of a bad one from being able to acquire it; and this may be done if they are kept in an inferior station, and not exposed to injustice. - Aristotle
something everyone needs to understand when it comes to corporate welfare and welfare abusers/cheaters... "as to prevent those who are of a good disposition from desiring more than their own, and those who are of a bad one(disposition) from being able to acquire it" this is why we need the government to mandate...the nature of our desires is boundless, evil abounds on both ends.. it is the middle that is needed to keep the balance.
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