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cyrano2u -> RE: List of Potential things that could destroy US from the Inside (11/13/2015 7:20:37 AM)
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1)Uncontrolled and massive immigration
The immigration argument is primarily about access to scarce resource, welfare, health care, etc. No America cannot be the dumping ground of all the world downtrodden. To combat the problem change the incentives. Build a more robust infrastructure and a clear global strategy for a path to come to the united states that is not arbitrary.
2)An entrenched criminal underclass to flourish largely unchallenged
Hmmm the word criminal underclass, is a misnomer, the underclass criminals do crimes relegated to their community, compared to corporate thievery that damages the infrastructure and thus the country. Conservatives use the poor and minorities like the red baiting of McCarthyism era. That Demagoguery red baiting that masked the erosion of personal liberties and freedoms, all to supposedly fight a communistic enemy. This did not address who the real enemy was, that enemy was Sen. McCarthy. He ruined so many lives, convicted people without evidence, spouting the big lies, while waving the bogeyman of communism. Likewise do the conservatives today wave a target in front of us, the poor and the have nots are coming to take your stuff, they say to the affluent. They ask and we give up our freedoms to the elites to defend us against the poor, fight the poor rising up, to fight poverty is liked to terrorism while conservatism is called patriotism, all the while corporations are raiding our treasury to fund infrastructure necessary to them while the put 10's of billions! yes billions of dollars in low tax offshore corporate tax-shelters. These corporation while claiming bereaved over taxed moral high ground is raping the country and steal more in a year than the mafia and drug lords can do in a lifetime. Take the 10 largest corp and add up their off shore liquid(cash) assets and see what you have.
3)Increase the national debt.
House hold cannot live on credit cards and the government cannot do it either. When you live on credit cards eventually you will have to start paying back the bill. You will have to budget, because you don't not have the money, which is why you used the credit card in the first place. American cannot keep running a deficit and not expect the interconnecting world economies to have an adjustment. Just to the dynamism of the systems involved. I f we could just get rid of super PAC and dark money, so we cut off the blood supply(money) to the cancer of corruption in our government
4)Start more foreign wars, antagonize other countries until WWIII finally happens.
All countries take actions to secure their interest. They fight wars or they fight proxy wars, in trade, in sports. Wars are expensive and it never a good idea to start one unnecessarily. But when your enemy is already at war, doing harm to you and your economy then fighting a war that devastate them, removing the profitability to wage economic and cultural warfare because we will respond is true peace through strength. Acquiescence or accommodation only brings escalation
5)Legalize hard drugs and gambling everywhere. Let people wallow in their addictions.
We only have to look at prohibition in the USA for our lesson. The current organized crime, went from a localized shakedown into a national organized parasitic snake, based on the ill-conceived notion that morality can be legislated in a free society. The prohibition against alcohol created a lucrative market and supplier were more than willing to provide product, in fact more alcohol was consumed during the prohibition than after the law was repealed, it was forbidden fruit anymore, so it lost its appeal. The war on drugs is a failed policy, casual marijuana users are getting sentences harsher that felony violent crimes. But number are needed so tax dollars can be channeled into their failed programs, this war on drugs, was cynically started by Nixon purely for political reasons, it has now acquired a life of its own.. People with addictive personalities are going to be addicted, we have alcoholics, but not everyone is an alcoholic. Make psychotropic drugs legal and so cheap, that drug cartels cannot compete, people are not being murdered, because there are no huge profits to me made.
6)Automate more jobs and send more jobs to China or other developing nations so that more people are unemployed.
Again look to a corrupt political system the support and create oligarchy. The conservatives in pursuing money to fund their campaigns, sell America out from underneath the Americans. They wave some yellow journalism at the masses with implied racial overtones, placate the religious segment of their constituency with promises they know will never be kept. And pass laws that allow like in russia, 1% of America to own 60% of the country. These are oligarchs who consider themselves a citizen of the world not of America, so taking jobs overseas and leaving us only service jobs is ok. Taking all the profit and not reinvesting anything back in the company, that’s ok too. Creating illegal barriers to entry and forming illegal monopolies and price fixing well that’s ok. They are the ruling class and they know what is best. We are back to a society of inherited privileges. Citibank paid off congressman to slip into a funding bill a law to allow banks to risky derivatives betting again, they take the winnings, the losses are covered by our taxes. Keep the rich richer and the poor poorer
The ruling class in Rome did this they raided the treasury to pay of debts of noble families and the emperor building country palaces and pay for the army 400K men. In the end rome saw the problem of indebtedness was so common that it was seriously hindering economic enterprise. In 118 A.D. Hadrian agreed to wipe off a bad debt to the treasury which amounted to the equivalent of £7 million and also reduced many other sums….a bailout by any other name is still a bailout. It did not save rome, because the nobility did not change, greed is an incurable disease.
There are three things you must do when you have ruling class oppress a population.
Distract them from their chains, so they don't realized they are oppressed. entertainments/TV
Show them the benefits letting themselves be oppressed someone occasionally wins the lottery, poor kid makes good in the corporate world.
condition to accept that they are powerless to change their circumstances and can never escape. poor ad the rich when judged for the same crime..who gets punished harsher
8) Promote a culture that encourages short term gratification over delayed gratification and hard work.
look at corporate culture that drive short term quarterly profit rather than long term corporate gowth benefit
9)Promote a culture that encourages people to despise all authority and do whatever they want whenever they want. yes Music
10)Don't invest in infrastructure. Let America crumble. current corporate America. The GOP leading presidential candidates are proposing defunding American infra structure and turning it over to the state. Why would some advocate crippling America, like that, because it would be a profit driver for some little local oligarc, and the politican would get to stay in power. Look at the real numbers of that policy under walker in Wisconsin. Under walker home prices went down, real wages went down, but unions got busted and corporation made windfall profit and he tried passing a law that he did not have to keep record of anything no emails nothing, he leaves wisconsin with a $2.2 billion budget deficit
History will show, we ask not to be educated,
We wanted our political process to be theater.
TV rating are more important than a substantive agenda
We are doing this to ourselves.
This is not the rantings of a liberal, I rather detest incompetency that they allowed themselves to be so dominated they cannot even defend themselves against spurious charges.
I think the less government the less opportunity for corruption.
If corruption harms me, then that corrupt person should pay the price,
no more lies
We allowed a party of elites who's main agenda to preclude
anyone joining their hallowed ranks and prevents the redistribution of wealth.
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