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"We are completely saddled and bridled, and the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where they ill guide. The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens ... must be broken, or it will break us."
That may be true if you just pulled the plug overnight. But if changes were phased in over a few years, there would be plenty of jobs and GDP would gradually accelerate to a much higher level than we are currently experiencing. More people working would demand more products and services.
Generalizing I do not disagree that we can do better. The problem is we would have to quit allowing the banks to run the economy but it is the banks with the money.
"We are completely saddled and bridled, and the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where they ill guide. The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens ... must be broken, or it will break us."
Thomas Jefferson
I stated what I stated above before getting to your quote. Yes, it must be broken.
That may be true if you just pulled the plug overnight. But if changes were phased in over a few years, there would be plenty of jobs and GDP would gradually accelerate to a much higher level than we are currently experiencing. More people working would demand more products and services.
In Order to have Free Trade, all countries economies would have to be modeled after ours.
Would you like to replace our economy with one like China's where workers have no rights and millions have their independent farms bull dozed and are forced to move to the cities for work?
Would you like the American Government to own all the Big Corporations like China?
Why or why not?
Why would companies create jobs here when they can go to countries where workers have no rights and work for slave wages?
In Order to have Free Trade, all countries economies would have to be modeled after ours.
Would you like to replace our economy with one like China's where workers have no rights and millions have their independent farms bull dozed and are forced to move to the cities for work?
Would you like the American Government to own all the Big Corporations like China?
Why or why not?
Why would companies create jobs here when they can go to countries where workers have no rights and work for slave wages?
Because they expect courts here to protect their rights, such as patents and intellectual property. If you are going to move your production there, go to their courts to protect your rights and interests.
There is a point where economic inequality becomes so prominent that it actually perpetuates dysfunction (see crime in Brazil and South Africa).
No one is suggesting that everyone should earn the same amount, but the most problematic societies in the world are ones where so little control so much. Remember, money is power.
True, but it greatly increases the odds of having two jobs. With only one parent there is zero chance of having two incomes.
false-- many moms have two incomes- and at times I did-
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