Ok, first, this is my country. I love it. I'm not going anywhere and neither are you. I wouldn't want you to, even though I disagree with you sometimes. That's just not what this country is all about.
You say:
"You need to study capitalism and how it works in order to realize that it is true that people are only wealthy because they climb all over the poor."
Well, I don't really see it that way. Under a real free market, wealthy people get that way by providing something that others are willing to pay for. In order to secure wealth and prosperity under a real free market, you have to guard your reputation jealously. Otherwise, someone else will come along who can do whatever it is you do but who doesn't piss off the neighbors, polute the drinking water or whatever. Real competition is that comprehensive.
What we've got going now is no free market. Under our current system, wealthy people get that way by lobbying government to pass legislation that favors their interests while preventing almost everyone from ever even entering into the market to compete with them. Could you build a better motorcycle than Suzuki? If you had the interest and knew a bunch of other people with similar interests, sure, I think you probably could. Could you ever get it past Ralph Nadar? Rots a ruck, Commrad!
You say:
"If everyone had capital, there would be no use for the capitalist system".
Yes, that's the goal. For as many people as possible to be as prosperous as possible. We had that once. America was the envy and wonder of the world because just about any unfortunate refugee could wash up on the beach and, by the end of his days, have built something worth passing on to his kids. And he could pretty well count on actually leaving his life's work to his kids because the law only came into play when someone tried to take it against his will. Voluntary exchange was left alone. Only taking by coercion was frowned upon. Now, it's sort of the other way around. Earning a buck is seen by a lot of people as an evil ulterior motive while taking through eminent domain, taxation, mandated spending, etc. is seen as good and nobel effort to help the (ever growing number of) less fortunates.
You say:
"You wave the flag; you waive your rights! America is nothing to be in love with unless you love establishing supremacy at the expense of the third world (study the World Bank and the IMF), or if you love corporate rule over the working class. Take a close look at the lobbyists our politicians are virtually employed by. Study some eminent domain cases where the corporation squashes the majority of local neighbors and plunks a franchise down at the entrance to their subdivision."
I think you and I are defining our terms a little differently. You're using the name America asif it were interchangable with the USFG. I don't think that it is.
You say:
"Wage slavery or the threat of enforced poverty is not a choice; it is a threat. There's nothing free about forcing people to aquire the means of survival from the wealthy."
Well, the only alternative that I know of to letting everyone to aquire the means of survival for themselves is to take it by force and then decide how to dole it out. The way I see it, I've had just about all the government help I can stand. If there's one message I would like to send to the next generation of politicians, it would be this; Please stop helping me! Laissez nous faire!
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are constitutional rights secure.
-- Albert Einstein
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