reply to post by mishigas
I somehow instictively knew I was wrong when I made these statements.
I should have remembered that rich guy carrying out those 5,000,000 bigmacs from McDonalds the other day.
I was, however, a little disappointed you failed to point out the buggy wipe plant that had a record quarter of profits last year.
For some time I have been looking for someone who is intelligent enough to answer one question which has bothered me for the past several months.
If our current tax structure, the lowest it has been for years, is so bad; how did this country become the dominate economic super power on the
planet? I have not been able to figure out how this country managed to build such things as the interstate highway system and all the hydroelectric
dams which we currently use, from the private investments of the big banks and rich hedge fund managers. Did they use up all their money already and
that's why they deserved the bail out they got in 2008?
I am saddened when I think of how real change is so slow. It is almost generational in nature.
The current generation seems to have not learned from those which came before.
It would seem they know nothing of the earlier financial history of this and other countries. There is a well known law about things financial. It
sounds very much llike one of Murphy's Laws. If anything can go wrong-- it will go wrong. Too much power, specially financial power, concentrated in
too small a group will never bring about those things which are in the best interest of the general populace.
As for closing down some departments of government.
Might I give a resounding YES to the Dept. of Education and the Dept. of Labor. After all their regulations really do get in the way.
The Dept. of Education basically allowcates the federal monies sent back to each state. The education dept. of the variou states are in charge of
designing their own studies and buying their own books. Oh yes, there are some pesky rules about giving all the kids within a state an equal chance
for this education, but without the federal guidelines those "other kids" can get by just fine.
The Dept. of Labor has very little interest in what you make or who you employ to make it. They are just in they way when a boss wants to have some
employees go into places which have hazardous gasses present or where the plant is about to fall down because the company can get by a few more days,
with luck, before it collapses.
But I guess most people have never hear of or seen the benefits of OSHA. Nor do they think any company would simply cut their employees pay because
they can.
Or, then again, maybe we do need to go back to working for $0.25 per day, seven days a week. The main problem is that it will not be those who help
set this reversal in motion who will end up at those wages. But, then again, they won't have to worry about it, they will long since be burried in a
fancy grave plot along with a coffin full of cash.
I do hope any of those who read this rant will quickly dismiss and forget about it. I get a little carried away. I can never remember just how wrong
I am in these matters about life - living - and working.
edit on 30-7-2011 by hdutton because: (no reason given)
