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They want our currency bad enough to make stuff at a loss to get it. The market in the US will never demand a savings rate high enough to balance trade. We can come close to balanced trade. We can also come close to starting to buy back our debt. Do that and its value goes up.
What your advocating for is survival of the fittest so...
Like any human anywhere wanting to survive, they will make their own rules...
Country and State means nothing when your survival is on the line.
They are not going to pull the gun to their head and shoot themselves but they will do that to you
From your posts, you support the Constitution.
But when pandemonium hits, I'll bet you would be the first in line in favor of killing all the freedoms and liberties afforded by the Constitution to contain these people.
We see it all the time already where people say just shoot them
The Constitution only applies to me and mine but not you and yours
Let's talk turkey. The illegitimacy rate among blacks is just shy of 75%. For whites, it's 30%-- more than double what it was for blacks just a few decades ago. That, more often than not (let's chuck the exceptions that naysayers love to bring up) results in single-parent homes in which Uncle Sam is the babby daddy.
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.
Are you sure about that? Sweden has more billionaires per capita than does the U.S.
Everyone at 1.5 times or more the average income pays the top marginal income tax rate in Sweden. In the U.S., the top marginal income tax rate doesn't kick in until one earns 8.5 times the average income. (Source: OECD) Plus, Sweden has a 25% VAT tax that everyone pays in addition to their income tax.
??? ??? ??? ??? No outcry from the rent slaves who paid for Other People's Houses while unable to own one themselves?
No, because Iceland has a small population with very high home ownership
and very low long-term renters.
We could increase home ownership here by incentivizing work and rehabilitation.
Again the problem is banks. Banks must be forced to bend to needs of the people.
Imagine a community project in a city like Detroit that would give people homes
IF they work to rebuild and restore. Otherwise, you won't get the necessary
investment because monetarily it won't pay off, so it has to happen another way.
If not, ghettoes will continue to expand.
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?
China is a socialist country where the government owns all the land and totally controls the people.
It's the opposite of a free country. Why would I like it?
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