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The Founding Fathers Fought Against Inequality

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George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and James Madison Slammed Runaway Inequality

The primary author of the Constitution – and later president – James Madison wrote:

The great object [of political parties] should be to combat the evil: 1. By establishing a political equality among all. 2. By withholding unnecessary opportunities from a few, to increase the inequality of property, by an immoderate, and especially an unmerited, accumulation of riches. 3. By the silent operation of laws, which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

He also said:

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Nine months before his inauguration as America’s first president, George Washington wrote:

[America] “will not be less advantageous to the happiness of the lowest class of people, because of the equal distribution of property.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote when visiting France:

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not the fundamental right to labour the earth returns to the unemployed. It is too soon yet in our country to say that every man who cannot find employment but who can find uncultivated land, shall be at liberty to cultivate it, paying a moderate rent. But it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land.

Alexander Hamilton argued for widespread ownership of assets, warning in 1782:

Whenever a discretionary power is lodged in any set of men over the property of their neighbors, they will abuse it.

Hamilton argued that a strong middle class was needed to become energetic customers of businesses in the entire economy.

John Adams feared that “monopolies of land” would destroy the nation and that an oligarchy arising out of inequality would manipulate voters, creating “a system of subordination to all… The capricious will of one or a very few” dominating the rest.

Adams wrote that – unless constrained –  “the rich and the proud” would deploy economic and political power that “will destroy all the equality and liberty, with the consent and acclamations of the people themselves.”  He therefore favored “preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue (by making) … the acquisition of land easy to every member of society.”

When he was elderly,  Adams wrote that the goal of the democratic government was not to help the wealthy and powerful but to achieve “the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”

Moreover:

It wasn’t just James Madison and John Adams. Other be-wigged early presidents of the U.S. and half the crew on Mt. Rushmore — George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — believed that U.S. democracy would work best if citizens had a broad-based ownership stake in the economy. They too feared that extreme property inequality would prevent America from fulfilling its promise.

Why Too Much Inequality Goes Against Conservative Values

More than half of American conservatives think we have too much inequality.  The growing disgust among conservatives towards the runaway inequality in America is rooted in history.

After all, the Founding Fathers fought for freedom from an oppressive central bank which sucked the prosperity out of the economy, but the  Federal Reserve’s policies have created inequality even worse than experienced by slaves in Colonial America in 1774.

The Founding Fathers warned against standing armies, saying that they destroy freedom.   And they warned against financing wars with debt.    But according to Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, the U.S. debt for the Iraq war could be as high as $5 trillion dollars (or $6 trillion dollars according to a study by Brown University.)

And the Founding Fathers also launched the Revolutionary War because the British government was engaging in crony capitalism (which constituted taxation without representation), instead of letting the colonists have a shot at free market competition. The modern American authorities are doing the same thing.

Likewise, the “father of free market capitalism” – Adam Smith – railed against monopolies, supported regulation of banks and the financial sector … and said that inequality should not be a taboo subject.

The well-known Greek historian Plutarch said 1,900 years ago:

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Libertarian champion Ron Paul says that the system is rigged for the rich and against the poor and the middle class:

 

In fact, there are at least 6 solid conservative reasons – based upon conservative values – for reducing runaway inequality.

We’re not calling for redistributing wealth from the rich.  After all, Jefferson said:

To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, —the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, & the fruits acquired by it.’

So what are we advocating?  We’re for stopping further looting by Wall Street.  As Robert Shiller said in 2009:

And it’s not like we want to level income. I’m not saying spread the wealth around, which got Obama in trouble. But I think, I would hope that this would be a time for a national consideration about policies that would focus on restraining any possible further increases in inequality.

We advocate using current fraud laws to prosecute Wall Street criminality. Even without fancy new laws … using the old ones would work just fine.

And we support clawing back ill-gotten gains from criminals under well-established fraud principles:

The government could use existing laws to force ill-gotten gains to be disgorged (see this and this) [and] fraudulent transfers to be voided …

And if we stop bailing out the Wall Street welfare queens, the big banks would focus more on traditional lending and less on speculative casino gambling.  Indeed, if we break up the big banks, it will increase the ability of smaller banks to make loans to Main Street, which will level the playing field.

We don’t even have to use government power to break up the banks … if the government just stops propping them up, they’ll collapse on their own. Indeed, many Republicans have pointed out that the big banks would fail on their own if the government stopped bailing them out.

These are all solidly conservative principles.

After all, bad government policy is responsible for the medievalking-and-serf levels of inequality and social mobility which are destroying our economy (and see this.

It is also undermining America’s geopolitical power.

Every conservative (and liberal) should be disgusted by those results.

Postscript: Madison is also reputed to have said:

We are free today substantially but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when that day comes, when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nation to the changed conditions.

However, the quote has not been authenticated in Madison’s records.

 

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Thu, 04/23/2015 - 21:02 | 6024501 r0mulus
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GW, you are the man. Thank you.

"We are blues people. The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. That’s different."
–Dr. Cornel West

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 04:02 | 6021126 petroglyph
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zh just requested to use my notifications and I can't find what that means?

I hope it means dinner and drinks with Marla, but I will probably be willing to help if I can.

Thanks Tylers's, Petro

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 19:52 | 6020278 TheGreatRecovery
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Note to GW: consider adding "inequality" to list of politically-incorrect words.  :-)

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 19:36 | 6020221 TheGreatRecovery
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Looks like some commenters didn't read GW's post.

GW's post did NOT say that the Constitution said anything about inequality.

GW's post did NOT say that the rich should be taxed more.

GW's post did NOT call for redistribution of wealth.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 19:43 | 6020240 Seek_Truth
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Since when do comments reflect the OP on ZH?

(Okay maybe half of them, being generous here.)

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 19:50 | 6020268 TheGreatRecovery
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I don't know what OP means.

I was referring to comments about GW's post.  I was not referring to comments about other things.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 19:52 | 6020276 Seek_Truth
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OP = Original Post
As in the article at the top of this page that GW wrote.

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 10:04 | 6033742 TheGreatRecovery
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Thanks.  So many abbreviations!

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 19:47 | 6020264 TheGreatRecovery
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Yes he was. 

Hamilton also got in trouble while he was Washington's Secretary of the Treasury for... oh, I'll let people read his biography themselves.  Hamilton was extremely energetic and bright, but came from the humblest of backgrounds and was so ambitious that, IMHO, he let himself be repeatedly used by unscrupulous schemers.  I consider Hamilton to have been dangerously weak, in the same way that I consider Woodrow Wilson to have been dangerously weak.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 18:56 | 6020096 RichardParker
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Here's the source of you inequality:

"In the new system a small number of men, equipped and trained to fight, received dues and services from the overwhelming majority of men who were expected to till the soil. From this inequitable but effective defensive system emerged an inequitable distribution of political power and, in turn, an inequitable distribution of the social economic income. This, in time, resulted in an accumulation of capital..."

From Carrol Quigley's Hope and Tragedy

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 18:54 | 6020091 Hannibal
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Alarming: Chinese Missile Defense on Mexico's Border!

Military bases in Canada and Cuba, as well several Central American countries, are planned as well

This satire originally appeard at Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Translated for RI by Ricky Twisdale

Wolfgang Bittner is a writer and lawyer. His book “The Conquest of Europe by the USA” (Die Eroberung Europas durch die USA) was recently published.

From trustworthy intelligence sources it has become known that China intends to enter a defensive alliance with several South American countries in the near future. As a defensive measure against a possible missile attack from Iran or North Korea, it is planning to station a missile-defense system on Mexico’s border with the United States. Medium-range ballistic missiles, which can be equipped with nuclear warheads, will be incorporated into the defensive system.

Furthermore, China intends to establish military bases in several Central American countries as well as Canada and Cuba. In cooperation with Russia, a missile-defense shield and long-range ballistic missiles are to be placed on the northern Siberian border in order to be able to effectively counter possible attacks from rouge states.

The U.S. government has condemned this plan as a genuine threat and protested sharply against it. Washington has announced that it will immediately take corresponding defensive measures against a military encirclement of the United States. It will likewise put a stop to attempts to destabilize the United States through subversion, of which it had been aware for quite some time.

http://russia-insider.com/en/alarming-chinese-missile-defense-mexicos-bo...

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 14:36 | 6019037 Pancho de Villa
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(Snickering)...  Hillary posits herself as a "Founding Father"... or "Mother"... ???

 

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Wed, 04/22/2015 - 14:20 | 6018980 Quantum Nucleonics
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It's somewhat amusing that you quote so freely from Madison on war, considering he got us into the War of 1812 and DC burned to the ground.

As Madison discovered, weakness invites aggression.  The thought of not having a standing army precluding the possibility of getting into war is just another unicorn puking rainbows and craping gold bars.  Better to manage the risks and have peace through strength, then invite annihilation with the weakness you (and Ron Paul) propose.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 18:02 | 6019917 11b40
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Who is weak?

We are, that's who, but it has nothing to do with the size of the defense budget.  We strut around on the world stage acting like besotted fools.  We pound our chests while we shout about being number one, meanwhile bankrupting the nation and making enemies in all directions.  We start wars, displace entire populations, wreck infrastructure, prop up dictators and sow the seeds of financial ruin for the world.....but we can't win a war.

What America has come to represent more than anything else is evil.  Our "defense" budget is an obscenity, and should more properly be described as an "offense" budget.  Real strength comes from a vibrant economy with a strong, confident population governed by real leaders who care more for their country than their personal promotion.  Few politicians of this era come closer to that ideal than Mr. Paul.

 

 

 

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 14:18 | 6018969 kchrisc
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"Inequality" Such a Zionist weasel word.
One of their key terms for "division."

Always about money, power, and division.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

"You're armed. I'm armed. Were equal."

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 19:13 | 6020166 dexter_morgan
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Divide and conquer. Works almost every time......except hopefully one final time.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 14:05 | 6018904 jomama
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...except when it came to black slaves, which they all 'owned', the only exception being John Adams.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 13:40 | 6018775 Marco
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I don't understand the subtitle of your post, are you just trying to be inflammatory? You have all these quotes about land ownership ... but then out of the blue your subtitle seems to posit some fairy tale market based solution unsupported by your litany of quotations.

Land owner and government are synonyms.

 

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 13:35 | 6018747 PGR88
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"Inequality" is built into a progressive-socialist system.   The rich write the rules and the politically connected game the government.

Exhibit 1A is the Federal Reserve

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 13:14 | 6018639 Comte d'herblay
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For 7 years the wealth of this country was increased by unnamed TRILLIONS, by hank, tim, jack, J Yell, Ben, Pete, and others and given to the Jews and some gentiles on Wall Street, GM, AIG, and other financial institutions.

What have you to say about it, Mr. Jefferson, and the idiot that wrote this piece??

How can anyone begrudge giving that same amount to the people who pay taxes in this country, excluding the 1%??

 

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 14:14 | 6018963 jomama
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Hey, it's the xenophobic, homophobic zealot! GW is far from an idiot.

Real wealth has not been increased in this country for quite some time, it's been offshored for decades.

Furthermore, for being such a profound expert on everything 'right' in this world, I've yet to see any articles submitted by yourself.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 11:51 | 6022267 Comte d'herblay
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U left out the part about being Anti-AIPAC, Anti-Ripoff by Jewish Wall Street titans, and their accomplices in CONgress, the Judiciary, and the White House. I'll leave it to U to educate and inform yourself. 

As for homophobic, I fear the Gays about as much as I fear our new Puppy.  

Since I'd rather live in the Luberon, Tuscany, Hungary, or Copenhagen, I don't think you have the right candidate for xenophobia, U have Comte confused with someone else, but you live in a state of permanent confusion, so that's to be expected.

If U refuse to accept that Lord Blankfein's wealth and all the Wall Street Jews' wealth was increased in the last 7 years into the trillion dollar range, then U just woke up from a very long nap. 

The Wealtrh of the Top 20% has dramatically increased as well. If the human beans have 401K's, pension funds, or other savings that is invested in the market U may want to check the all time highs on all the indexes,  They can sell now and be wealthier than they were 7 yrs ago. 

GW is wrong about wealth not being increased so that makes him an idiot for ignoring what is smacking him right in the face, unless of course he's been short for 7 years. 

 

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 12:19 | 6018403 VWAndy
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Government corruption is the issue as I see it.  Good governance is possible and absolutly nessasary. It comes down to accountability or the lack of it. Inequality is the norm because while we may have been created equal it dont work like that in life.

 The main reason good government exsist is to allow for a true system of justice. That is not what we have today. The results are getting pretty hard to miss. One must turn away to not see it.

 The human struggle is now and always has been about accountability. Life aint fair. But with accountability everyone gets  the same shot.  Perfection does not exsist get over it. That said. This beast so badly needs a leash. Yep it is not going to be easy to put that leash on that dog but that dont change the fact that it got off the leash.

 Screw the double standard gang. Measure me how you will. Just be sure to use the same measurement on everyone else including yourself. This grading on a curve is bullshit.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 11:05 | 6018099 silentboom
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When the currency itself is redistributive and artificial, how can there not be unnatural inequality?  It is by design and predictable.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 11:00 | 6018076 usednabused
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Jefferson advocated higher taxes on bigger property. And I assume he meant land as well as money. Isn't it funny that in the USA today we find much higher taxes on smaller property than higher? And yes on land as well as money. Our gov't is 180 degrees from what our founding fathers envisioned and advocated for.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 17:51 | 6019880 RaceToTheBottom
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Yeah, but things are different, they had wooden teeth....

/s

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:45 | 6018013 cdskiller
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GW, you are so afraid of the word re-distribution it seems like you've drunk the kool-ade of the right wing. Asking the wealthy to pay more is not re-distribution; it's called patriotism and fairness and it's a policy that was integral to how America functioned for 50 years after the Great Depression and now it's verboten. I call BS on that. Absolutely, man, end the criminality of the banking system and Wall Street. But, also raise the top marginal tax back to at least where it was when Reagan took office. Raise it to 70% on income over $300,000. That's not re-distribution: you're not taking that money and giving it to poor people. You are taking it to pay for the wars and infrastructure of the nation, and it's just the right thing to do.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 13:46 | 6018815 PGR88
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You are blind if you can't see that inequality exactly comes from politicized attempts at so-called "redistribution."

You are either stupid or a fool for promoting it.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 17:46 | 6019867 11b40
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And you are either stupid or a fool if you don't see all the redistribution that has been taking place over the past 40 years.  

Tell me again, what happened to the middle class?  

 

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:59 | 6018065 Prober
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Asking the wealthy to pay more is THEFT, PERSECUTION, PARASITISM, DISCRIMINATION, AND INEQUALITY OF RIGHTS.

When the 2nd revolution starts, please wear a conspicuous distinguishing mark that identifies you as a  thieving parasite communist and I will have a special reward for you.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 11:04 | 6018097 usednabused
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I'd just be happy if they paid in equal proportions, which they sure don't. So you Probing asshole can wear that distinguishing mark when the day comes. I've got something for you...

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 12:26 | 6018207 Prober
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60% of government spending is entitlement programs for you proletariat parasites and failures - you can't even man up enough to earn earn enough income to pay ALL of your personal expenses - ALL of you pathetic failures should be immediately recycled !!!

ANYTHING that irritates, annoys and punishes the proletariat entitlement-tit-sucking parasites is a JOY for me - I hope you all get every disease and rot to death slowly and painfully - your disgusting failed existences are an insult to all living things.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 19:49 | 6020267 Arthur Schopenhauer
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I'll start by commending you for expressing your views so forthrightly and earnestly - obviously straight from your heart. Would you care to volunteer and kindly lead us poor undeserving parasites out of our poverty with those exceptional positive, supportive, and encouraging thoughts?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 00:33 | 6024957 Prober
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Serious constructive advice:

1. Don't condemn yourselves AND your children to lifetimes of poverty by breeding before you have stable careers, adequate income, and a reserve of savings.

2. Always be learning new skills and enhancing your value in the labor market with additional credentials and work experience, vs just getting a job and stagnating.

3. Stay liquid and mobile so you can quickly and easily relocate to wherever the best next career ladder rung openning is vs letting yourself get stuck in one place with limited potential.

4. Stay aware of your employer's condition and relocate to a better position before your employer's misfortune, incompetence or stupidity results in you losing your employment abruptly and having to scramble to "get another job" vs strategically searching for a career-advancing position.

5. Don't squander your net income on meaningless crap, conspicuous consumption, garage stuffed with crap you don't use, expensive decadent-society nonsense (eg ludicrously expensive silly sports tickets or amusements) etc.

6. Live together but DO NOT get married until loooooong after your relationship has proven itself to be stable and enduring - a divorce will cost you more than half of all that you have managed to accumulate.

If you can accomplish just these simple basic strategies, you will be very much more prosperous, stable, secure and happy.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 12:34 | 6018446 ersatz007
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oh, and the REAL redistribution that is occuring if you've actually understood ANYTHING here at ZH is that of the wealth & productivity of the middle class into the hands of the ultra-wealthy in the form of 'inflation' and ZIRP and in the form of 'entitlements' to the poor (some of which actually deserve it)...and in the form of endless and NEEDLESS wars to protect the dollar as reserve currency.  so, Prober, if you're something other than a paid troll for TPTB, then perhaps you should focus your energies on obtaining the skill of READING COMPREHENSION and THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 17:43 | 6019857 11b40
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Let me just say Amen.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 12:36 | 6018435 ersatz007
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by "proletariat entitlement-tit-sucking parasites" - do you mean the banksters, oligarchs, and the military and the rest of the fucks that start endless wars and waste my fucking tax money so they can keep printing money without worrying about hyper-inflation (until they've sucked us dry, that is)?  

 

also when you say "I hope you all get every disease and rot to death slowing and painfully" - do you say that as a Jesus-loving Christian?  or as the godless puke that you really are?  

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:43 | 6018003 BI2
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They also warned us against

The American Curse >>>  http://wp.me/p4OZ4v-3z

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:29 | 6017959 Reaper
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Who redistributes? Who makes the rules? Who is forced to work? Who is exempt from the rules? Why ought I produce, while he/she lie about?

Government is a hustle run by "public servants." Wealth always buys government/justice. The great delusion of men is that a good king/judge will appear. Man lives in the natural world where everything lives, grows, withers and dies. The inequalities,nurtured and sustained by a noble/rich/chosen/corrupt government, are destructive of the future gains of the excluded men. All unnatural systems fail.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 11:06 | 6018079 Boxed Merlot
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All unnatural systems fail...

 

 

But that doesn't prevent us from creating them.  If the farmer didn't step in and plow the soil that had never been plowed before and plant seed in a controlled and manipulated way, there would be no harvest to share.  The debate is how much monkeying with the natural order is beneficial and how much is contrived to be detrimental.

Humanity naturally alters every setting we're placed in.  I think our current situation as regards to the banking / currency / derivative ownership / insurance risks and trading activities should have been allowed to work their problems out without government "bailout" intervention years ago.  The government does have a role, but that role is / was to administer lawful prosecution of appropriate control fraud  / bankruptcy laws as was done in the S&L crisis decades ago.

The fed’s intervention and "controlled demolition" of historic US legal currency laws will make the dust bowl era of the 30s look like a mild zephyr on the beach.   

 

jmo.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:15 | 6017891 mastersnark
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Please don't quote me a bunch of guys that implemented a document that gives a very small group of people in DC the power (1) to tax, (2) to pass laws that provide for the general welfare and (3) to regulate all interstate commerce. Those 3 clauses intentionally gave a small group in DC unlimited power to control every aspect of our lives.

I accept I'm living in a constitutional police state, but flowery quotes from those responsible that they meant well doesn't make me feel any better.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 14:38 | 6019075 Quantum Nucleonics
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It was the Supreme Court and the progressive/Marxist movement of the early 20th century that stretched the meaning of the constitution far beyond what it really says.  Don't blame the founding fathers for Wilson, FDR, and the rest f-ing it up.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 12:09 | 6018352 rubiconsolutions
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@mastersnark - Couldn't agree more. The combination of the 16th amendment and Article 1, Section 8 is plain evil. It has lead to the virtual enslavement of the American people. The constitution - to paraphrase Spooner - either enables the government we have or is powerless to prevent it. Either way it's not fit to exist. 

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 09:52 | 6017805 taketheredpill
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Adams and Hamilton never owned slaves.  The other dudes were a bit loose on the definition of 'Inequality".  Still liked the post.

 

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 09:15 | 6017694 Shitgum Suicide
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Also your analysis of the founders fighting against inequality is a bit of a stretch like most of your posts. They fought against the powers that bring about inequality not inequality itself.

Only crybaby collectivist Marxist like yourself run around and scream about unfair and unequal demanding fair share rather than just plain old freedom and individual liberty.

Therefore your title should be the founding fathers fought for liberty. But then again I would expect nothing less from the garbage man himself.

What a loser

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 17:36 | 6019838 11b40
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What a nitwit.

George is not a loser.  He works hard at shedding light on so many of the ills taking place in society, and does a generally good job of presenting and documenting his case.

You, on the other hand, sound like you don't mind having this rigged system shoved up your ass.  

Please show me anywhere he asks for his "fair share", or don't you understand the difference between a fair chance and a fair share.  

But hey, you got to use "collectivist" and "Marxist", both in one sentence, so I'm sure it must have been thrilling to write.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 09:25 | 6017720 g'kar
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Shitgum, you and George need to have a beer and bourbon together. I'll leave the hotel room optional.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 09:09 | 6017665 wagthetails
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fought for equality?..not so much as the upper American class wanted power from the upper uk class.  but still a power play.  Not that that means our constitution is false, the spirit is correct, whether or not they actually lived it or not.  Agreed with earlier posts, concentration of power is the issue...and equally bad if concentrated in gov or biz.  today we have both, and they are tied at the hip.  Capitalism is most efficient, and freedom enjoyed by the most people, is when we have many entities competing for power.  embrace human desire for power, but every so often these most successful will rise to the top and enshrine their power...we are at a time for reset, break up big gov and big biz, start the competition anew and lets enjoy another 100 years of growth and success.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 08:53 | 6017601 Shitgum Suicide
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There you go making things up again. Nowhere in the constitution does it say anything about inequality.

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