Since the founding of this white European nation called the United States of America, on lands stolen from the First Peoples, the economy was designed by and has worked specifically for the educated business and lawyer elite. The everyday citizen lived off the land, and needed not to be involved in the affairs of government. With the Industrial Age, things drastically changed for the United States – because the everyday survival of citizens depended even more greatly on large city prosperity and jobs provided by industries. This government-endorsed pyramid scheme that benefitted the business and lawyer elites off the backs of unrepresented and, often, abused (and underpaid) workers (slaves, indentured servants, employees of industries) led to the Great Depression, which led to the socialist populist policies of the FDR administration that created the prosperous Middle Class in the United States. For the last fifty years the business and lawyer elites have worked diligently to strip away all these self-autonomous gains for “the working people,” in their effort to return government sponsored capitalism back to pre-Roosevelt conditions. Their efforts have recreated the pre-Depression era income inequalities that almost ended this nation in the early 1900s. All this, though, is a matter of historical fact that explains why we are where we are as a nation today. But, do you believe that we could be better?

Isn’t it about time that the United States economy actually benefits and *rewards* the working citizens for their participation in USA GDP growth? In order to have this: There needs to be a basic monthly subsistence income for simply being a U.S. citizen. College level education and healthcare needs to be free for all citizens. The federal minimum wage needs to be in economic balance with the cost of living in the United States. The debts a citizen accrues via loans needs to be capped to no more than thirty percent of take home pay, so citizens are not drowning in debt – which encourages poverty, bankruptcies, and harmful economic inequalities. Citizens need to be encouraged that their participation in the capitalist job market actually benefits them (employee bonuses, shares, and dividends), as much as it benefits the businesses and their CEOs that employ the workers. A job for everyone, just pick your field. This leads to an economically healthier populace, higher retention rates, and opportunities for workers to prepare for retirement.

The entire economy continues to grow so long as there are workers to engage in jobs needing to be done. And, industry flourishes and the economy booms – without fear of inflation and another Great Depression on the horizon – when citizens are spending debt-free money into the economy of the nation. It’s called economic responsibility, folks! As a nation, we need to be focussed on creating the future industries of the United States, not trying to save the industries of the past. And, we need to be listening to our scientists! To be the nation that leads the world, not follows it! And, to achieve this, we need in politics actual representation of the people *by the people* – not just the lawyers and financial elite who can afford to fund their election bids! We need in this nation Ranked Choice Voting in all elections. And federally mandated voter enrollment! We need to abolish the Electoral College for presidential elections. And, we need term limits on the Senate, like we have with the position of President.

Do we want a United States that leads the way among the nations on how to do government right? Or, do we citizens enjoy our suffering destitution that much? Please, don’t believe the spin that all this above can’t work, or that there isn’t enough resources available for everyone. This is the lie that keeps our economy trapped in corporate greed for financial domination! Our national life does *not* have to be this way. So, what do you want for your future, and your childrens’ future? … There comes a point where a nation needs to take a moral stance against the very existence of a ghetto within the nation! Every human being deserves a home, healthy food on the table, clean water, and a safe social living environment – period! And, this is only achievable through economic prosperity. Every citizen deserves unbiased equality in representation, in justice, and in economic opportunities in the United States. To say otherwise, is to be immorally unpatriotic!

Whether it be Harris, Buttigieg, Yang, or someone else that understands what it takes to change for the better – we need to start doing something as a nation again! Now is the time to plant these seeds into our nation’s future. And who you vote for decides whether our nation leads the world, or continues it’s cycle of falling back when it could be growing.

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Joseph T Farkasdi · April 9, 2019 at 2:59 pm

When someone tells you that taxing the rich only and legislating distribution of wealth is not our nation’s founders’ ideal for the U.S.A., have them read:

Thomas Jefferson, 1785, “But after all these comes the most numerous of all the classes, that is, the poor who cannot find work. I asked myself what could be the reason that so many should be permitted to beg who are willing to work, in a country where there is a very considerable proportion of uncultivated lands?… It should seem then that it must be because of the enormous wealth of the proprietors which places them above attention to the increase of their revenues by permitting these lands to be laboured. I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not the fundamental right to labour the earth returns to the unemployed. It is too soon yet in our country to say that every man who cannot find employment but who can find uncultivated land, shall be at liberty to cultivate it, paying a moderate rent. But it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.” – Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 Oct. 1785, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-aocs-billionaires-taxes-hannity-american-democracy.html
AOC Thinks Concentrated Wealth Is Incompatible With Democracy. So Did Our Founders (sort of).

The linked AOC article above is a fairly balanced historical piece. AOC is not inventing something new with her views, and the United States has *always* had socialist considerations in how a federal government needs to regulate wealth and taxes. In his letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson was expressing on the state of the King, who possessed all the wealth, and a poor peasant woman he met, who labored at a pay rate that left her financially and physically suffering, unable to buy bread.

Joseph T Farkasdi · May 9, 2019 at 4:03 pm

I, Donald J “Art of the Deal” Trump, blame China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, our former U.S. Presidents (legitimately elected), and John Kerry for why I can’t make a deal as Con-man-in-Chief. Pathetic! Worse than a used car salesman who can’t get people to buy any of his cars. … Since 2015, we told you so!

Trump says John Kerry should be prosecuted under Logan Act
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442934-trump-says-john-kerry-should-be-prosecuted-under-logan-act
President Trump said Thursday that former Secretary of State John Kerry should be prosecuted under the Logan Act for speaking with Iranian officials and criticizing Trump’s policies in Iran.
Trump told reporters at the White House that he would not rule out the possibility of military action in Iran amid escalating tensions before laying into Kerry for his involvement.
“What I’d like to see with Iran, I’d like to see them call me,” Trump said. “John Kerry speaks to them a lot, and John Kerry tells them not to call. That’s a violation of the Logan Act, and frankly he should be prosecuted on that.”

Trump also blamed the unwillingness of China, North Korea, and Venezuela to negotiate as the reason progress that makes him look good has not happened yet.

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