CrusaderFrank
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You're deflecting. That's not what he addressed. DO the banks own our asses? Yes.
Try going big picture.
Who owns the banks?
The government owns the banks today, the better question is "who owns the Federal Reserve"?
If I didn't have the experience of working for a man who started off borrowing $50K and working tirelessly to build his company so that he's now on Forbes 400 I might be only slightly more inclined to buy into these notions about "the rich"
The people who started Google and Facebook are all the "rich" today yet 15 years ago no one could pick them out of a police lineup.
Yes, rich people have influence and don't care about unemployment of $4/gallon gas. Big fucking surprise.
The best thing that could ever happen to this country would be ending personal income tax
Y'think?
How about reforming the government? How about checks and balances to taxes and/or welfare? Welfare has its place. There ARE people who NEED it.
Going to watch them starve in the street?
The problem is getting rid of the abusers who use the system to suck off our tax dollars.
I'm okay with taxation WITH representation. I'm not okay with taxation with representation by people who didn't even win but the elite put them in office anyway.
Accountability.
I agree. And we were better as a nation of communities rather than a nation ruled by million of pages of rules and regulations from Washington DC.
I went to public school in the Bronx at a time when the Principal de facto OWNED the school, you did not fuck with that lady. Those times are gone with doctors making house calls and the reason is the same: the government stepped in.
The government became the patient paying the bills and setting the standards for care so my Doctor stopped making house calls and the government took control of the schools so now kids have no idea which end is up.
We should teach kids how rich people get that way, it should be taught starting in grade school.