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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomething just hit me
I mostly lurk here and read the news and insight from members but was just reading a thread about those using the safty net and I realized that our problems with the economy could be solved overnight.
We need once and for all with taxation return this nations wealth to its rightful owners not so they can spend it on our overlords cheaply made goods but to provide a universal safty net for all the population.
Once the basic needs of shelter,food and care are met imagine the inovation and invention that can begin.
Have a great idea for a product that will better our lives?no problem you can work on it and perfect it without worry of starving.
Billions of dollars are just sitting in bank accounts doing nothing while we muddle along.
Instead of shrinking the safty net we need to expand and enlarge it.
Do that and watch the economy explode.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)And watch their heads explode.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)that they have lied so much that this year they are so rejected that never again will we have to deal with their hatred and evil.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)And hold up pictures of you with the Hitler mustache
WillyT
(72,631 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)but people too.
Sick evil bastards.
barbtries
(28,824 posts)give a shit about other people?! omigawd. that's not the american way!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Nurses and lab techs spend money, not stash it in the Caymans.
Sirveri
(4,517 posts)Serious question.
That's probably not the way you mean it, but the question is at the root of the Republican ideology (other than the obvious racist roots). I suspect that they ask this question because they don't believe they'd work themselves, so why would they trust others to do so.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)then just food and shelter but those are the basic needs and rights to existence we have.
Maybe for a few that would be enough but for the huge majority they will want to do something to better their own and everyone elses lifes.
Yes we have repukes that feel the stepping stones to riches are all the little people but once the rest see that no longer are they inprisioned by the need to serve a wealthy person virtually begging for survival they will be free to better the world.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)That would fix it.
Don
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)there should be a penalty for hording wealth whether cash or goods that is not bettering society.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)If all our needs were met, our overlords couldn't control us. We're all so focused on staying afloat day to day, no time for anything else like inventions.
Maslov got it right: