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Sir;... Good for you... But let me warn you... Talk is cheap unless your income depends upon it, and as my income often has, I am richer in words than in money... You should be careful of words like thief... You might get away with pointing that word at an entire class as it is hard to argue against the fact that they have stolen the country... In fact, only one thing stands between the working class and slavery, and it is only our self conception as free people...But; then, only one thing stands between the rich and ruin... Simply enough, until they have it all they cannot be destroyed... Property, liberty, society, or economy are only examples of forms of relationship.... If it were possible for one person to have all the gold as a king Midas may have, then gold would no longer be a form of relationship, but a point only of contention... Or; if no one had any gold, it would have no meaning or value for anyone... For property, or liberty, or America to have meaning we all have to have a bit of it... Our problem is simple: out of small inequalities are great inequalities made of that can in the end find a few owning all....Property; the sure sign of wealth once supported society and government.... Taxes drove its price down, and forced it to be profitable... Taxes on labor has put the burden of society primarily upon working people, while the relatively light taxes on property raised its price, and put it out of the reach of workers... Since we must work twice as hard for the money we have, and borrow to have any property, the value of money became a force in itself, extorting wealth to have wealth ... And get this: It is all legal; even if no better method could be divised for destroying society, it was, in retrospect, entirely natural... This society taxed the rich, and for that reason gave them the greatest level of control in government.. .Having the control, they naturally shifted the burden... If great inequalities were in this fashion created; the natural want of democracy in this land was made impossible to satisfy... Look at how the rich pervert our government, and how money decides every issue... If the rich were paying their way they would demand in public that their concerns be addressed... Instead, money sways the political process, and then money never makes a fuss about the real issues before us... Instead, our government is hamstrung with moral issues that never should be subject to a vote... THAT is the government we are allowed, one as broke as ourselves; no longer able to peddle our property for nothing to settle its debts, -spending like us, money it will never possess to buy a moment of fantasy... But never forget: It is legal... And if that is so; then it is law, as a form of relationship, that has lost all meaning, along with government, and property because it is all owned by the rich..... .Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:48 PM
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