@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:
You say those things without understanding human nature. All one needs to do is look at our current economy; the rich has been getting richer while the middle class and poor has become poorer.
Some good people are some of the wealthiest on this planet, but most who command million dollar salaries and benefits at the expense of the workers getting less does not prove good intentions. Many have made decisions to lay off American workers to export those jobs to other countries, while their own salaries and benefits increased. Can you see what's wrong with this picture?
American workers is the engine that makes our economy strong. Without them, our country will deteriorate into third world status. American workers help other Americans keep their jobs and homes. More taxes are collected by all levels of government to support all the necessary maintenance of our infrastructure and services. What's been happening during the past two decades is that most local, state, and the federal governments going into deeper debt is caused by this greed by the few at the top.
This needs to be reversed if we want to see any recovery. The feds can jump start this growth by spending more on infrastructure maintenance and development. Those monies will multiply within our economy to grow our economy.
I never made a claim of understanding human nature... What ever human nature is is not rational, or rationally motivated... The moral forms which guide us are not rationally understandable, for example... Culture, which is knowledge also contains all the irrationalities accumulated by a people in their process of survival, and modern culture in not working creates a sort of person on the edge of self destruction, and frustration... Because people cannot change their form, their natures, and need the stuff of life, for that reason they change their social forms, and physical forms as well, like cloathing and shelter and food production... People who are flawed by nature, having a flawed understanding through their moral forms cannot but create flawed social forms, and you use the example of the federal reserve, or the economy...
If you look about for the causes of our problems you can find many from the flaws in humanity to the flaws in our social forms, which given the tendency of people to benefit at the expense of others are all on a clock and as mortal as their creators...There are no ideal social forms, but they would last a lot longer if people were willing to really fix them as they go rather than forever turning them to their benefit or the benefit of their class... That part of the problem is human nature... The part of the problem that is formal is illustrated by the English Constitution where nobility, king, and church all leaned on each other and all supported each other... All our established social forms do the same thing... Church, economy, military, law specifically and government in general, and education all stand together and support each other... And they will stand until something puts them over the edge... Bankruptcy always leads to revolution and we are bankrupt... The banks have cleaned us out... Our trade policy and employment policy has cleaned us out... We have done as Henry the 7th in England would never have done: We have made war for no good cause or likely gain, and we have exported our capital while importing our products... So we are bankrupt , and the rich, many of whom have been made rich by tax policy alone will not ever pay taxes by choice regardless of the fact that the government is their support and defense....
All of my life I have been a revolutionary, but any fool who looks for revolution with joy is a fool... No one knows how they will turn out any more than one knows going in how wars will turn out... Many innocent people can get hurt, and worst of all, it is usually for little or no gain that people revolt and die in the process...Naturally, while admitting human nature to be a great unknown of irrationality, I will not appeal to it for revolution.. Rather, I want formal consciousness, so that if people decide to change, or decide against change, that they know what they are dealing with, and know also that forms are what people change by way of adaptation to a new reality... If you don't like the old reality, you need a new form, and all of history has been the history of changing forms... Better I think, to do it as our founding fathers with some idea of what you are dealing with so it can be talked about in a rational fashion...
