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Topic: Capitalism vs. Socialism: The Battle for a Balanced Economy
creativesoul's photo
Wed 05/13/09 09:36 PM
Essentially, you are asking for the decentralization of power. Meaning WashingtonDC and the 1 government are inadequate to fill in all requests and grant all wishes and govern in a way that would satisfy most people.

Is that what you are saying?


I am saying that the system, as it is, is severely out of touch with the very people whom they are paid to represent...

The reason is simple logistics...

A division of powers needs to happen in order to satisfy the different needs of the different regions' peoples. This can be accomplished through the downsizing and redelegation of funding from the federal into the hands of the individual states.

Protection and implementation of an equitable system which one can thrive through reasonable efforts is necessary at the federal level... investing into America and it's citizens... is anything else?

Thomas Paine...

Government is nothing more than a national association; and the object of this association is the good of all, as well individually as collectively. Every man wishes to pursue his occupation, and to enjoy the fruits of his labours, and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with it the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

It is from the enterprise and industry of the individuals, and their numerous associations, in which, tritely speaking, government is neither pillow nor bolster, that these improvements have proceeded. No man thought about the government, who was in, who was out, when he was planning or executing those things; and all he had to hope, with respect to government,was, that it would let him alone.



I read the following, I find myself picturing a government described as it should be, NOT, as it is... or was conceived to be.

My how times do change...

Every man is a proprietor in government, and considers it a necessary part of his business to understand. It concerns his interest because it affects his property. He examines the cost, and compares it with the advantages, and above all, he does not adopt the slavish custom of following what in other governments are called LEADERS.

There[America], the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not priveleged. Industry is not mortified by the splendid extravagance of a court rioting at it's expense. There taxes are few, because their government is just.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in it's best state is but a necessary evil; in it's worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without a government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.


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pokerface1200's photo
Thu 05/14/09 08:22 PM
only one thought here read the book "1984" or watch the movie cuz this is where we are headed. hey how about letting cuba and venezuela in on the deal since its that simple. they seem to be getting it right

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