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sweetbilly · 06-20-2006, 02:21 AM

That's the kind of examples i'm thinking of, i can understand property values going up, but at this rate it is not healthy for the stability of this economy or this country. There has to be a celing somewhere, if this dosen't stop soon i'm afraid this enonomy is going to collapse. Maybe that's exactally what we need to change things, another depression. The way i look at it, a depression is just the redistribution of wealth in this country anyway so maybe it would be a good thing.

I think back to black tuesday, or what ever it was called, and i think if things were that bad back then, what is it like now. If Bush Sr. wouldn't have placed a freeze on the stock market when he did would the market have collapsed? I think it would have. I truly believe he only put a freeze on he the stock market to save his rich friends and his political party from total collapse. It's a natural occurance for the markets to collapse after all the wealth has been accumulated by a minimal number of people, if they don't re-invest that money back into the system, and in America, the system will eventually fail ...either by depression or by civil unrest. That's the reason i believe in a fair tax system based on taxing people based only on a percentage of what they earn, it's a fair tax system that dosen't afford tax loopholes to the ultra wealthy. If you earn less, you pay less. If you earn more, you pay more. Isn't that a fair system?

The wealthy eat up more natural resources etc ...than the average person, yet they do not pay into the tax system like the rest of us do. It's a documented fact that 52% of all material wealth in this country belongs to only 5% of the population. think about it every second building you look at in a day, or every other financed car probably belongs to the same person. Yet the majority of all taxes in this country are paid by average families making between 50 and 150 thousand a year. The others are so poor they can't hardly survive on their own, the old, single moms living on welfare, etc.. they live on what is considered below the poverty level, the illegals living andworking in this country are making more money than they are.

I know no one ever said life was supposed to be fair, and i don't expect it to be fair. However, i do expect to be able to make a living and have some type of a future, or at least hope for that future, especially living in this country!!!! If i don't even have the hope that my future will be better than my past, then i guess there is no reason to fight for this country anymore either, as i am not allowed to participate in or take part in the great American dream why should i fight for it. Why should i, or other Americans, like the guys in Iraq, fight for a system that hinders every attempt to better our lives? It's not that i or other Americans are living beyond our means, it's that year after year we are deliberatly being suppressed by those who are afraid that we empower ourselves and take our country back again. I attribute all of this to these problems to just two parties, we need someone to give Americans hope again. JFK was very good at that. In his time he was emblematic of honesty, patriotism and innocence. I belive this inspired Americans to greater causes than just themselves. When he was murdered we lost all those things and America hasn't been the same since.

I guess i'm just rambling on, sorry. It's just i have a very passionate love affair with my country and i want things to get better, and i see it going the other way and it disheartens me alot.

06-20-2006, 02:21 AM	#13 (permalink)
sweetbilly Established Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 283	That's the kind of examples i'm thinking of, i can understand property values going up, but at this rate it is not healthy for the stability of this economy or this country. There has to be a celing somewhere, if this dosen't stop soon i'm afraid this enonomy is going to collapse. Maybe that's exactally what we need to change things, another depression. The way i look at it, a depression is just the redistribution of wealth in this country anyway so maybe it would be a good thing. I think back to black tuesday, or what ever it was called, and i think if things were that bad back then, what is it like now. If Bush Sr. wouldn't have placed a freeze on the stock market when he did would the market have collapsed? I think it would have. I truly believe he only put a freeze on he the stock market to save his rich friends and his political party from total collapse. It's a natural occurance for the markets to collapse after all the wealth has been accumulated by a minimal number of people, if they don't re-invest that money back into the system, and in America, the system will eventually fail ...either by depression or by civil unrest. That's the reason i believe in a fair tax system based on taxing people based only on a percentage of what they earn, it's a fair tax system that dosen't afford tax loopholes to the ultra wealthy. If you earn less, you pay less. If you earn more, you pay more. Isn't that a fair system? The wealthy eat up more natural resources etc ...than the average person, yet they do not pay into the tax system like the rest of us do. It's a documented fact that 52% of all material wealth in this country belongs to only 5% of the population. think about it every second building you look at in a day, or every other financed car probably belongs to the same person. Yet the majority of all taxes in this country are paid by average families making between 50 and 150 thousand a year. The others are so poor they can't hardly survive on their own, the old, single moms living on welfare, etc.. they live on what is considered below the poverty level, the illegals living andworking in this country are making more money than they are. I know no one ever said life was supposed to be fair, and i don't expect it to be fair. However, i do expect to be able to make a living and have some type of a future, or at least hope for that future, especially living in this country!!!! If i don't even have the hope that my future will be better than my past, then i guess there is no reason to fight for this country anymore either, as i am not allowed to participate in or take part in the great American dream why should i fight for it. Why should i, or other Americans, like the guys in Iraq, fight for a system that hinders every attempt to better our lives? It's not that i or other Americans are living beyond our means, it's that year after year we are deliberatly being suppressed by those who are afraid that we empower ourselves and take our country back again. I attribute all of this to these problems to just two parties, we need someone to give Americans hope again. JFK was very good at that. In his time he was emblematic of honesty, patriotism and innocence. I belive this inspired Americans to greater causes than just themselves. When he was murdered we lost all those things and America hasn't been the same since. I guess i'm just rambling on, sorry. It's just i have a very passionate love affair with my country and i want things to get better, and i see it going the other way and it disheartens me alot.