What's your generation and how would you change your government?

[JasonBlack]

(03-20-2022, 09:08 AM)David Horn Wrote: There are two issues here.  First, the need to restrain ROI, greatly increase the economy's growth rate or both is basic math.  Failure will lead to all wealth in very few hands with little ability to change it.  Second, the core structure of the economy should not be based on a model that makes monopsony the default.  Sorry, but that's where we are today, and that's a no-fault-no-foul model for penury -- evil not required.

right, so our first priority should be going after lobbyists and campaign financing.

Quote:Now, you seem to support the argument that, "This is mine, I stole it fair and square."  And yes, the powerful have used the tools intended to restrain them to restrain us and maximize benefits to themselves.  Here's the question: is turnabout fair play?  I say yes in spades.

While we're on the subject of putting words in people's mouths

Quote:You should be careful about putting words in other people's mouths.  No one in their right mind wants a dictatorship of the left any more than one on the right.  My models are Sweden and Finland, not the USSR. You set up a strawman to knock him down.  If your basic premise is wrong, so is the rest of your argument.  And it's odd that you mention the most socialist enterprise in the nation: our military.  They are provided benefits no one else gets -- from raising their hands to taek the oath until they die.  I know, I'm still benefitting from my service 50 years ago. And again, you try to make a point no one is making.  Private ownership of property is fine with me.  I certainly have some.

I'm happy to hear that, because while you are correct that no one in their right mind would want that kind of government, we do not live in an era where most people are in their right mind.

Quote:This is the problem with our bifurcated politics.  In the last 1T, and I believe the next one too, the liberal view of economic policy was king, but the conservatives controlled the culture.  So we had all the things you mentioned and a stifling culture to enjoy them in.  The last 2T was inevitable, and the next will be as well.

yes, it will be inevitable, but at present, we have to make the correction in favor of a more conservative culture where men are respected before it can become an over-correction in which the next 2T rebels against stale conformity.