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I was once told that 10% of Americans control 90% of the money. If that is so, that means that 90% of the population is fighting for only 10% of the pie. I don’t know about you but I see something very wrong with that. Granted people make these fortunes by being ingenious, but at the same time by powerfully controlling these assets and utilizing this advantage they stomp out others that might be able to capitalize had it not been for a dominating competitor. There are ways to level the playing field, but many times they are limited and engaging in something like this would require high amounts of capital thus requiring an extreme amount of risk. I am sorry but such a high risk makes things like this nearly impossible. No bank, private investor or anyone else for that matter is going finance a high risk client unless there are some other biased deciding factors especially not in the current financial situation we are in right now.
So what do we do to alleviate this and create a higher standard of living overall? First, I feel like the people that are suffering most need to stop being so lazy and just content with getting by. Why because we pay these politicians salaries we need to start keeping an eye on them and making sure they are performing their job in the way they swore in to perform it not just look after their needs. Instead of just complaining the people need to take a political approach most likely through protest. Believe it or not but protesting is an effective tool to battle against large scale heavily lopsided politics, but it requires a strong unification. In order to be heard and really catch the attention it must be a joint effort of the people, there is power in numbers and therein is how we level the political playing field. No politician likes bad media and will do anything to stop it especially when there’s an election year coming up.
I believe we also need to start implementing higher taxes on all businesses taking jobs overseas and raise taxes on all incoming goods as well. It is a shame we are sending jobs overseas because ultimately we are destroying our own economy. If you think about it who benefits from this huge savings usually in the production of products? Executives, corporate and people overseas mostly being the executives of those companies overseas. So raise taxes on corporate businesses that are sending jobs overseas and in addition with those extra funds either give middle class and below tax breaks and or also give companies tax breaks for staying domestic when it comes to producing. We also depend a lot on foreign products so in order to battle this we need to implement new research programs to help separate us from being dependant on foreign goods. The most notable product I think is petroleum we lean so heavily on foreign oil while we could be refining our own or finding alternative energy sources.
As far as dominating competition goes I think there needs to be stronger legislation to govern high paid people and monopolizing companies in order to keep a level playing field. At the same time I recognize these people may have worked harder to achieve this but while they live their dream they stomp out the dreams of others. Now I am not saying extreme measures but increase taxes on high paid individuals incrementally with regards to higher salaries etc. I believe that there should even possibly be caps on corporate salaries. Stronger legislation needs to be adopted in order to keep market giants from stomping out competition as well. Use higher taxes on middle market companies and above to level playing field while using that money to lower or give tax breaks to small business. After all it is small business that affects the largest percentage of companies and people in the US.
Another major topic I want to touch on that I think is killing our economy is the war efforts. First off before anyone jumps on me I believe that the war may have been warranted but I believe the deciding people made a much to hasty decision. I was fine with the war in Afghanistan, I felt it was warranted, but the war in Iraq was not! It has been the largest waste of time, money and most of all American lives! Money and time can be recovered but the loves lost can never be returned no amount of money can ever return a son to his mother, a father to his wife and child and to think that $250,000 should suffice. What happens to the widow who is a stay at home mother and has no skills but still has the bills, still has the kids. There needs to be stronger legislation to help these unfortunate people. As much as I am against the war, I am that much for the troops, they never asked to go there. You can say they signed on for it but in the end where is your heart for your people? If a person can go and die for their country, their country should at the least be able to take care of its left behind family in the least!
Wow, got a little side tracked. It is something I feel strongly on that society today has forgotten what their forefathers gave to have these freedoms. It may not seem like a big deal when you are born with them but for those overseas who can not walk around without their faces covered, those that can’t speak out against atrocities in their government for fear being killed this would be heaven! Regardless though we need to pull our troops we are in a losing battle with people who have no faces. What I mean is that we can not fight against a enemy that we don’t is a enemy and these are the tactics they are using and will continue to use. Sadly if we won the war or not I do not see suicide bombings, random attacks ever fully stopping. I think it was Plato that said, “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” We are pumping so much into a rebuilding effort while we are forgetting the rebuilding effort that needs to be done here on the homefront. We are pumping billions into a country that possess a 90 billion dollar surplus. We need to pull all funds less what it takes for our military to train them to do what we are doing so that they can become efficient and independent otherwise we will never rid of this cash camel.
