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Selectivelight -> RE: Fix the country in 1 paragraph... (4/25/2011 11:12:16 PM)
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Alright, OP. You caught my attention.
A number of factors contribute to the overall problem in this country. Slipshod efforts in education, a lack of comprehensive health care, market and industry with so few regulations that major corporations could basically get away with murder...
Many of these factors seem to stem from a socioeconomic imbalance. Our country exists as more an aristocracy than anything else. The wealthy decide the rules of the game, which seeks to ensure their continued prosperity and lack of competition from the unwashed masses.
My solution, in a single sentence;
Kill the rich and take our economy back.
Kidding aside, (and I am kidding.) the problem is really too complex for a single paragraph solution and I am probably going to look like an idiot for trying, but here goes;
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The issue boils down to economics. When a corporation can ship all manufacturing jobs overseas, using components from half a dozen third world countries, and labor from partially industrialized China, then not only pay no taxes, but receive credits and preferential treatment, this is a problem. We must regulate the economy, either force corporations to use American labor, or make them pay taxes to compensate for what they aren't doing for this country. Either way, we need to get more out of them than a place to throw our money away at. Our working class needs work. And I mean -work-. Building cars, designing computers, assembling, manufacturing, creating. We're missing the D of GDP. We must also regulate our taxes. We must end the days of unprecedented, unnecessary, and unconscionable spending. The first question should be "How does this benefit the nation?". The second question should be "Is this a tenable long-term solution to the problem?."
My solution, in a nutshell, is to cut a slice of a major corporation's multi-billion dollar annual profit (Walmart, as an example, boasted something akin to 13.5B in 2009. This is right in the middle of the rest of our economy tanking.) and then actually give a damn about how that money is used, instead of just throwing it from one boondoggle to the next.
As for my plans for the future, I look at it this way, I could work until I dropped and it wouldn't make a difference. I'm poor. I'm going to be poor, I get it. I won't ever have a Ferrari, and the only time I'll ever even see an Armani suit is if I'm being sued.
I plan to live within my means, surround myself with people that I love (and hopefully am loved by), and never outlive my usefulness. Beyond that, the rest of it is just details.
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