The reality is a lack of profit centers, and a growing control of Government. Defense, Finance, Health Care, have taken over.
This leads to wars, Mortgage fraud, and fat people.
Most countries look to the health and education of their whole population as the means of economic development, the US looks at jails, cash cows for the medical establishment, housing being a bank profit center, and constant wars, which are not wars, just killing people for practice.
It has gone beyond just making money, it now consumes the national taxes, and the value of money held by other people, and their assets, houses.
It worked, till the well ran dry. Less property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, are the result of looting the public.
This leaves spending depending on creating money, which speeds up the process of making money worthless when only the big industries have any money.
Social Security would be more than sound if it applied to all income, a cutoff at $100,000 makes no sense, because a person making $200,000, would not be damaged paying another $15,000, just as they are not damaged paying the income tax.
Taxes would be less, with one class of Income. Income is income, no Capital Gains, Carried Interest, just income. A complex Tax Code drives investment, not a rational plan of investment.
We do need a prison system, and it should be hard labor, picking crops, working in slaughter houses, all of the jobs that excuse illegals. Some, due to their behavior, should have to work in the lion enclosure.
Labor, plus education, plus pay, will set them up to become productive citizens upon release. More than two thirds take a life of crime and jail as a career. They are expensive, and return customers should be moved into harder jobs closer to the lion enclosure.
Health care should be a shared venture, the obease cost a lot, they should pay by the pound, and from grammer school have their weight be a factor. Running all day and eating rabbit food would reduce our long term health costs.
National Health Care is needed. Dental care predicts a lot of other health problems, and just like vaccines, childhood care prevents a much worse situation. Health screenings from early childhood, diet, exercize, dental care, all of their shots, produces a healthy generation.
Preventive care is cheap, and would produce good medical jobs. Investment in the next generation is money well spent.
We need to come to terms with population. Examples are, we could become like Europe, or China, India, or Africa. I think them all examples of things to avoid. We can manage our land with less people, and reach a higher standard of living, health, education.
As far as endless growth, we have run out of room, resources,and technology makes more people nothing but a problem.
There is no profit in producing a better future, no lobby to give the money to buy Congress, but it is the only reasonable choice.
We need a Third Party, based on Common Sense, with a vision of a future we would want.
The existing system creates disasters that only they can save you from. Their fix is always give more to those who give them money, and take money and freedom from the masses.
I may write up the platform and post it on Kickstarter.
09 May 2013, 10:36 pm
