Posted on 07/01/2014 7:22:00 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Well, you're talking about the rich and the Founding Fathers are in that group as well as many Americans for two centuries who stood on the side of freedom.
Again, the culprit is excessive and unconstitutional government regardless of who espouses it. The problem is also clarified in the solution. The solution is cutting government and keeping it within constitutional limits so government cannot use subsidies to entice the rich/big business, or limit competition in exchange for big business dollars. The solution is certainly not doing away with the rich which is what Marxism does after the ruling elite takes their share.
Throughout the 1800's the wealthy were the results as well as the sources of a growing free enterprise economy. You didn't have big business in bed with government becasue government in the 1800's was within constitutional bounds and too small to be any kind of economic factor to anyone.
Did you read what I said about the 1 percenter Brit, Robert Owen, who imported collectivism into this country after we had gotten rid of it at Plymouth Colony by the hand of William Bradford?
But again the solution helps clarify the problem. The solution is not the Jacobian/Marxist doing away with the rich (after the ruling elite takes and keeps their share). That's a "solution" that exacerbates the problem. The solution is cutting and limiting government to it constitutional boundaries.
I’m not against the rich at all. God wants everyone to be rich both in Spirit as well as the physical.
It’s what the 1%ers are doing with their wealth to enslave the other 99% is what I have a problem with.
Yes, but what's the solution?
The solution is enforce constitutional limits on government making government UNABLE to exercise the abuses the 1% desire. They'd have to go somewhere else.
The first thing to do is for everyone to pray for them.
Yes, well I think we need to pray and fight at the same time - sort of multitasking I guess.
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