-Caveat Lector-
"Sometimes I feel I'm in a Gulag ... I must work ... others-the privileged
and
the "poor" do not work"
Hmm...I'll have to tell all the working poor that they are either not really
poor, or working a minimum wage job doesn't count as work...
I get paid too much for what I do now...but there were many years where I
worked 40+ hours a week and still had to sell records every couple of weeks
to make ends meet...
Many of the poor do work...
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stokes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Secret plan for EU 'Superstate'
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 12/20/00 11:06:45 AM Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Why should we NEED a safety net for the poor? Why should there BE
poverty? This is a bountiful planet. If we share it, ALL can live well.
Instead, a handful hoard and a multitude suffer the consequences. >>
I'm not necessarily directing this toward you, but I just don't understand
how you propose to fairly distribute wealth. I'm not a rich man but I pay
close to half my pay in taxes ... if I looked deeper it would probably be
over half my pay going to taxes. If this tax money was used correctly there
should be no poor people at all.
I see the Libertarian way as the most equal since everyone has a fair chance
and no one should be given special privileges. Government steals my
earnings
through taxes and corporations steal by giving me low wages for my
labor/brain-power. Government created big business by issuing special
privileges to some people to create corporations and the stock market. To
me
if things were normal there would be no corporations owned by stock owners,
since that is a misnomer to begin with(corporations are not controlled by
the
stockholders, but by those who have made themselves the CEO). Corporations
would be owned by individuals who would be responsible for injuries to their
workers while on duty and responsible if their products caused harm to other
people (customers).
Sometimes I feel I'm in a Gulag ... I must work ... others-the privileged
and
the "poor" do not work. Therefore I am a slave to these two categories of
people. Surely in a fair system those who work harder should have more.
Also those who are creative/smart enough to invent something helpful to
mankind should be rewarded also ... and those that do not work or contribute
should not be rewarded for their slothfulness. I am not chained to my home
or to the place where I work, at least not physical chains, but I'm in a
captured state of being. The harder I work, the more taxes I pay and the
less my employer appreciates it. Why do I have to pay for my education
while
others get it for free (the "poor" again) and since I pay taxes that means
I'm paying for their education (again the "poor"). This system as far as I
understand it means I'm living in a Communist State, rather than the
Republic
that is given lip-service, but in effect does not exist.
Many of you seem to have given this much thought, but you (not necessarily
Nessie) speak around the issues and use awkwardly worded (hidden meanings)
rather than coming out and saying what you mean. I consider myself to be a
conservative and no, that doesn't mean I'm a Republican. I mean
Conservative
in a sense of a strict interpretation of the plain words used in the
Constitution. Republicans are as far from being conservative as are the
Democrats ... they all use voodoo English to interpret the Constitution.
I sincerely believe that most people on this list are simply put: Communists
who want to take all my money and then dish it out to those more deserving
than me, even though I earned the pitiful wages I'm paid.
I have read and reread the Constitution and I see nowhere in it does it give
the federal government the right to control every facet of my life, or
anyone
else's life.
Seems to me the Constitution was designed more or less as a treaty among
nations (the original 13 States). Mostly for defense against a common enemy
(the British) and to assure that trading among these nations would be even.
And the federal government has very little power to enforce anything else.
The only major item the Constitution did not address was the slavery issue
... now it seems to me that I am the slave to the privileged and the "poor."
I also think that the only way to stop the Democrats and Republicans is with
violent revolution. They are not going to give up everything they have
stolen over the last 150 or more years. I never owned a gun in my life till
about two years ago.
Just a few comments,
I'm tired of being a sleeper.
Bob Stokes
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