Excellent article. What we have in America today is not free market capitalism, but a soft “fascism” that is enforced by large companies that buy government favor and is enforced by the liberal courts.
If people really and truly want to control the Feds, control your states. You can’t recall the politicians in Washington but you can recall your state, city and county politicians and put in those that will control Washington. The states control Washington DC.........if they want to.
Very true...Like the destructive trade policies...They only made the super wealthy wealthier and only a hand full of people really benefited from these terrible policies....Now, most in America are having trouble simply finding a job and struggling to keep their homes...
Facism is a form of collectivism. Fascism is a form of socialism.
What we see, are very rich and powerful people using government bailouts and regulations in order to enrich themselves and control the means of production. We might think, "Oh, he's rich, he must be an evil capitalist who is exploiting the poor" but that would be wrong. People like Soros and or the guys at Goldman Sachs are socialists who are rich and exploiting the poor.
The problem is, the Left likes people like the Kennedy's or John Kerry or Nancy Pelosi (all Fascists who use the government and exploit the poor) and pretends that these stalwart warriors are fighting the evil capitalists (Buffett, Soros, Bill Gates). Well, everybody I named is a Leftist. They're all on the same team.
The top 1% is making out really well -- and they hate capitalism. Capitalism allows real competition by real people -- the folks who are already at the top of the heap don't like that idea. With Fascism, they all get to play the game with a stacked deck. They like that just fine.
However, replacing crony capitalism with big union collective bargaining is not the answer.
The only side I care about is the taxpayers'.
This guy brags that he's a professor and that teachers have been unfairly treated. Bulls$%t! I'm a retired professor, too, and the tenure system is a huge mistake. There's a lot of dead wood at all levels in education, teachers included, and to try and make us believe they are unfairly treated is a joke. Unions exist because people have different abilities and some workers should make more than others. The concept of wage equality is pure socialism and makes costs higher than it should be and it is you, the consumer, who foots the bill.
The FED is BANKS.
ELSE.... they would change it..
The American people generally have been corrupted matching the government..
True that some States are not as fully corrupt.. but many are..
A brief look at the democrat party would show you that..
A look at whats happening in Wisconsin would show you that..
A cursory look at the Unions will show you that..
Whats a little harder to notice is all the contractors of the Federal, State and local governments..
Although they are PEOPLE as well they are fully corrupt..
Government workers, teachers, the police, firemen.. are corrupted and corrupt..
They care nothing about America, nothing.. Wisconsin has proven there is ZERO patriotism there..
Some States are worse some better but ALL are corrupt..
Admitting there IS THIS PROBLEM is step one else there will be NO STEP TWO..
I fear we are very close to that point.
I may not agree with the substance of the protests - I’ll have to read further - but people are in a very worried, and angry, mood.
This guy is a left-wing nutcase promoting the dogma of the class warfare message that started with the bolshevik rise to power. Entitlements and cost of big government are busting the economy, not low taxes. More taxes to feed the greed of the biggest consumer of our labor, which is not the rich or big business, but big government. Entitlements are sucking up 60% of the budget and this idiot says the rich need to pay more, meaning more private sector jobs leave to feed the greedy politicians. SPENDING OUT OF CONTROL BY AN ABUSIVE AND GREEDY GOVERNMENT IS THE ISSUE.
See you have just recently migrated from the DU and begin by stirring up class warfare in the private sector.
The Fed has been stealing your wealth at an average rate of 4-6% a year for nearly 100 years now... Those are the facts jack.
Only difference is now they aren’t happy settling for that paltry theft, and are going for the throat.
The Federal Reserve Bank needs shuttered and disbanded, it is, has and always will be a sham.