American Capitalism, wealth and freedom* for the elite.

Capitalism, the tool by which economics function in America, is at best the economic theory of freedom, at its worst it is the legitimization of predatory commerce. Like in all things we endeavor to undertake, human nature is the fulcrum of morality. I hear the term "in a perfect world" quite often and in most cases the perfect world is one without the dark side of human nature. Capitalism and human nature interact in a multitude of ways, I will touch upon only a few here. Once an entity gains the amount of commercial success, or political leverage it takes to be able to change the rules of the game, are they still operating under capitalism, or are they then ABOVE the capitalist model? Balance in all things is another term I frequently hear when investigating success. Should it be considered balance when one player in the game rises above the rules of that game? I think not.
     I have heard from strong believers from the various political factions that commerce is the end all of our society. I cannot argue that it is not one of the most important aspects of a society, and would not attempt to do so. But where we the people rank in comparison to commerce is the key to how much power commerce should be able to wield over society. As Communism has proven in it's execution theory and human nature often conflict to the detriment of the whole. Pure theory cannot cover all of the bases of societal impact upon any institution, and human nature(dark) must be protected against, by introducing regulations which allow the commercial freedom intended with capitalism, and at the same time limit the amount of control over the entire system by any one or group involved, and protecting the constitutional rights of the citizen.
   One group of Americans, the elite wealthy, fight and claw to stay at the tops of their respective hills by means of circumventing the laws set in place to protect the nation as a whole by, among other things, combining media, food, pharmaceutical, chemical, financial and other industries into huge conglomerates in order to implement guerrilla marketing upon the other group, John Q Public. This goes beyond Capitalism in my eyes, takes the entrepreneurial spirit right out of the individual knowing that the deck is stacked against you if you want to innovate and bring new things to the table. You can go and become a cog in the machine all you want, just do not compete or you will be destroyed.
  Many times this has been shown to be true: Tucker automobile, the guy who invented the windshield washer, etc.Those examples hail from the 40's -60's and they at least had some regulation back then. America is at her most vulnerable when one part of the whole becomes so powerful that it controls the entire environment of commerce and society.
   I think capitalism is a great theory, and allows the freedom of the entrepreneurial spirit to run amok, but human nature must be regulated against, and the threat of too much power in one place must be guarded against. Commerce in America has a choke hold on our society, it wants its money, and does not care how it comes. Commerce has no morality, and is only concerned with profit.

Sarah Palin: American Law Should Be 'Based On The God Of The Bible And The Ten Commandments'

Ones relationship with their god is a personal thing. Religion is the practice of using that relationship to control groups of people. The founding fathers were spiritual, and not all were christians. They also knew the dangers of mixing government and religion, and warned against it. They even wrote letters to you and I explicitly begging us to remember the dangers of letting the two become entwined. If the founding fathers wanted the ten commandments to be the law of the land they would have specifically said so in the constitution. The constitution is not the bible and the founding fathers are not god. Confusing those things is ignorant, and dangerous to the freedoms set forth in the constitution and it's amendments.

I'm proud of our founding fathers and the care they took to ensure all men would enjoy equal freedoms under American law.

I'm ashamed that it is so easy to sway "we the people" away from these truths, these days.
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Arizona Police Launch First Immigration Crackdown After Law's Passage (VIDEO)

Mind you, I'm mostly liberal viewed, bi-racial, middle aged man. I do not mind legal immigrants in the least, the more the merrier I say. It is really too bad that we have lost our faith in our civil servants' ability to execute law without prejudice(due to the actions of the relatively few), as well as our federal government and its desire to actually see this problem solved. Someone is getting rich because of illegal immigrant labor and the ease with which they are controlled. It's almost an American pastime to throw the yoke on them since the abolition of slavery.



This is an immigration issue period! Send illegals away, tighten up the borders, PERSECUTE THOSE WHO EMPLOY ILLEGALS! stress english literacy.

If you do not live in a region where illegals are rampant, you have no experience. I personally see them do these things with far greater frequency than citizens: Litter from their vehicles, wave foreign flags, refuse to speak english, use the emergency room as primary care, spit out babies like it's a contest.

Some social problems need hard solutions. The current state America requires all citizens to man up for our safety and survival. I'm enamored with the ideas of our founding fathers, but the abuses and loopholing that have pushed commerce into the end-all of priorities have led our country astray, and enslaved the middle-low income classes. Corporate profit at the cost of my constitutional freedoms is unacceptable to me.
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Come, Tea Partiers and Liberals - Let Us Reason Together

I have to say that I admire the authors ideals. To simply conduct civil discourse must be possible. I'm sure the teabaggers do so among themselves just as those who are not do. The way may be to speak as though you are talking to someone similar to yourself (even if it is not the case). To assume that those who rally to the opposite flag that you do are not people with feelings, families and intelligence, is enabling the division of "we the people".

We must embrace our differences (which is so very against human nature) and strip back the names and insults to bare the truth which is: We all want the same things like security, opportunity, and community. We all want America to turn out the best students, innovations and to dominate commerce. It's just that the potential means to achieve these things are the cause of argument.

If we could agree on the GOALS, discussion on the means could hopefully proceed civilly.
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Why change is what America needs; and Israel is punking us.

America, I know you are not stupid. Since most of us think our involvement with Israel is one of the main causes of the 9/11 attacks on our soil. The recent behaviors displayed by Israel are inflammatory to that situation and can only increase malice towards America. Netanyahu disregards this fact with impunity, and is acting like the younger punk brother of a bad ass.
Please do yourself and our country a favor and deeply investigate the tactics used by the Republican party; 99% negative attack fear mongering means that they have no positive match to the Democrats proposals on any of the major issues. I do not see any constructive solutions to the problems we face coming from the Republican party. What I do see is Republicans campaigning for office, which is not their job during these most troubling of times. Most of the problems we face were precipitated by de-regulation of the banking industry, and letting our infrastructure fall into an almost obsolete condition. The government has been catering to and protecting commerce instead of citizens, which has led to record numbers of jobs going overseas.
Basically, if we let things stay the way the country was being run for the past 20 years, a critical mass failure on the scale of the great depression is predicted within another 10 years. You will see in time that Obama is sincerely trying to correct the course of our country. We have become thralls to the corporation and he is trying to shift the balance the power away from corporations and churches, and back to the people, all of the people.
Think about it, the main objective of a government is to provide it's citizens an environment in which they can be productive, secure and free to believe and love without taking those things away from other citizens. The so called government "power grab" is from the corporations, who are in no way held accountable for their actions as they destroy whatever lies between them and profit; poisoned wells causing cancer, coal waste slurry flooding and ruining a whole town, silly things like that. Ruthless predation of Americans by corporate greed is a far worse scenario than government regulating these behaviors and limiting the damage they can do.
Please America, don't let Beck be your only source of info he's an entertainer. It is our job as citizens to question ALL of our leaders and their intentions. The founding fathers explicitly told us this, and warned us of unbalanced priorities.

Dose religion really help mankind overall?

It seems to me that religions grow in membership during times of woe and hardship.
Would it not benefit the worlds religions then to foment divisiveness, and clashes between locals who have lived together for generations? "The Church" like any entity or institution needs to survive, and survival depends on growing the flock, and to do that, it helps to have people in misery so that they can receive comfort at the hands of GOD.
The missionary religions, by imposing their rules upon the converted regardless of their living circumstances, can and do incur further hardships upon them. This happens when the influence of the church is whored out to accomplish the desires of man. This happens when contraception is turned into a sin and birthrates skyrocket, or when the missionaries vocally spurn any group that rejects their teachings (loosely applied term), it may cause any who have converted to be at odds with their neighbors.
I know that churches do a lot to provide community and support for it in places where freedom of religion is accepted. Although they do have the spectre of sexual misconduct by priests in these comfortable parishes. But in places where times are hard and there is no law of religious freedom, religion causes increased division among members of those communities.
I am not Muslim and I know little of the practicing of it. I have though noticed that it seems like the extremist clerics use the deepset love their followers have towards the prophet Mohammed to fuel hate towards those who do not follow his teachings. Much like christianity used  those same tactics during the crusades and the Inquisition. In fact I see many parallels between religious growth tactics and those used for war.

Hissa Hilal, Saudi Woman, Blasts Muslim Clerics On Live TV

It seems to me that religions grow in membership during times of woe and hardship.

Would it not benefit the worlds religions then to foment divisiveness, and clashes between locals who have lived together for generations? "The Church" like any entity or institution needs to survive, and survival depends on growing the flock, and to do that, it helps to have people in misery so that they can receive comfort at the hands of GOD.

The missionary religions, by imposing their rules upon the converted regardless of their living circumstances, can and do incur further hardships upon them. This happens when the influence of the church is whored out to accomplish the desires of man. This happens when contraception is turned into a sin and birthrates skyrocket, or when the missionaries vocally spurn any group that rejects their teachings (loosely applied term), it may cause any who have converted to be at odds with their neighbors.



I am not Muslim and I know little of the practicing of it. I have though noticed that it seems like the extremist clerics use the deepset love their followers have towards the prophet Mohammed to fuel hate towards those who do not follow his teachings. Much like christianity used those same tactics during the crusades and the Inquisition. In fact I see many parallels between religious growth tactics and those used for war.
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