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There is no way that anyone in power would have allowed this to be pushed forward. FDR knew that he screwed America when he sold her to the bankers.
Woodrow Wilson, 1916, said: A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men... We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men. === TPTB
IT WAS clinton WHO BANNED all us defense stocking piling back in the 90s.
do you have any idea HOW MANY BILLIONS IF NOT TRILLIONS we would haved saved if we had continued to stockpile us arms and ammunition ?
NOONE GAVE the founding fathers crap.
NOONE GAVE out great grandfathers,fathers NOThING!
THEY fought,bled,sweat and made this country with their own to hands.
THIS IS what this country has become a bunch of lazy azz people who have no freaking clue how to survive and flourish without handouts.
At one time the rich paid 90% of all taxes and they still were rich. I don't want to take from the middle class to feed the poor.
When people are motivated to achievement, they can reach self-actualization. If everything is given to them, motivation is unnecessary and ceases. Hence the failure of communist and socialist experiments.
Following the ongoing financial crisis of 2007–2010, bankers have deemed the Norwegian krone to be one of the most solid currencies in the world.... Norway maintains a Scandinavian welfare model with universal health-care, subsidized higher education, and a comprehensive social security system. Norway was ranked highest of all countries in human development from 2001 to 2007, and then again in 2009. It was also rated the most peaceful country in the world in a 2007 survey by Global Peace Index.... The Norwegian economy is an example of a mixed economy, a prosperous capitalist welfare state featuring a combination of free market activity and large state ownership in certain key sectors.
Denmark, with a mixed market capitalist economy and a large welfare state, ranks as having the world's highest level of income equality. Denmark has the best business climate in the world, according to the U.S. business magazine Forbes. From 2006 to 2008, surveys ranked Denmark as "the happiest place in the world", based on standards of health, welfare, and education. The 2009 Global Peace Index survey ranks Denmark as the second most peaceful country in the world, after New Zealand. In 2009, Denmark was ranked as one of the least corrupt countries in the world according to the Corruption Perceptions Index, ranking second only to New Zealand.
Norway was a founding member of the European Free Trade Area (EFTA). In 1981, a Conservative government ... replaced the Labour Party with a policy of stimulating the stagflated economy with tax cuts, economic liberalization, deregulation of markets, and measures to curb the record-high inflation (13.6% in 1981).
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Originally posted by links234
A lot of you seem to have missed this part in FDR's speech:
... “Necessitous men are not free men.” ....
I may never understand the idea of blaming the poor for their poverty. How it's completely acceptable that a priveleged few control the lives of so many, how fealty to a landowner is somehow considered 'free' in this country.
Don't you understand the concept of working for the greater good? Working, not for the monetary exchange of your labor to some capitalist business owner, but for the betterment of your neighbor?
How many people are homeless right now? ... 1.6 million!
Every species has its infirm and unproductive members. I'm pretty sure that Obama's new recess-appointed "healthcare rationing" czar will take care of ours.
This is NOT the 18th century, this is the 21st! We, as a species, are capable of progress! Not just in technology but in humanity.
Originally posted by jdub297
Actually, YOU seem to have missed the point:
By "privileged few," certainly you include the Obama administration and its endeavors to enslave more of the American public through government give-aways and "guarantees" that are anything but. Sadly, in an era of government-paid healthcare, education, food and housing subsidies, many of the "poor" are so by choice.
What about the 'capitalist business owner' who provides opportunity, subsidized healthcare insurance, and a fair wage "for the betterment of [his] neighbor?"
Isn't it HE who drives the economy, providing the government with taxable revenue and wages to fund the subsidies of the poor?
Where, exactly, does the means of providing for one's neighbors come from, if not the industry and trade of the 'capitalist business owner?"
That's about 0.5% of the populace; what would you do to improve that (other than wring your hands and whine)?
Every species has its infirm and unproductive members. I'm pretty sure that Obama's new recess-appointed "healthcare rationing" czar will take care of ours.
jw