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Sir;... Let me first say that we need more than a new deal... We need a new deck of cards... The cards we have give protection to property... The party system makes a property of our government... The government says nothing about the distribution of wealth as a goal, one way or the other... In fact, the distribution of wealth interferes with, and puts out of reach, every stated goal of the government, even national defense... If the government was doing its job, the wealth distribution would never have been allowed to grow so extreme...Look at the many ways government can distribute wealth from poor to rich... Excise and sales taxes weigh on the poor. Import policy injures the poor to help those who export capital...Income taxes, designed to get the support of the rich for society were turned on working people... The old stand by schemes, of currency manipulation and inflation and deficite spending have always been carried by the poor... When the rights of labor were curtailed in favor of property rights the labor movement was through... Its only value to the rich is to divide and weaken the working class...When the military defends our interests, which are the interests of the rich abroad, it is the poor who bear the entire sacrifice in taxes and sweat and blood... . As a commonwealth as republics are, having a constitution with clearly stated goals, as we have; where is the actual justification for a distribution of wealth so benefitial to so few???. Does it lead to union, to tranquility, to peace, to general welfare, or justice??? If the government was doing its job, it would demand all people support the society in some equal measure, and it would support justice... Is there a need for a labor union, or a teacher's association, or an NAACP??? Our government makes unions and association necessary by failing, deliberately, in seeking justice for all... The government should be our union... It is not...It was never formed only to defend the property of the rich, but to defend the property of all, the whole country, where each might rise through invention, intelligence, or hard work... As it was originally formed, it redistributed wealth... It put pressure on wealth because wealth paid for the government which favored their interests and protected their property... Do you fear the income tax being used to redistribute wealth??? The income tax has been used to distribute wealth to the rich.. It put a double load on labor, but it put a false weight on the rich, and one they are continually shifting onto labor... The problem with your little fairry land, is that fewer and fewer workers in productive high paying union supported jobs cannot sustain the great weight of government, and military needed to support international capitalism... The rich are not more numerous, but they weigh more, and they demand more of government... I think you rich folks ought to pay your way... I think that was how the country was designed, and it never stopped people from becoming rich... But income taxes carried by the poor do make working people poor... It is not their government they support.. The poor support rights they never enjoy... The poor buy goals they never recieve... Now; the government, for a long time, has been backing off new deal promises... Watch what the people do, starting with the old, when the govenrment cannot meet its obligations because it lacks the will to take back on behalf of the people what has been taken from the people... Consider, that it is not just the rich in any land that suffer when their societies fail... They lose all because the general injustice has knocked all the supports from beneath their positions... Your posititon has no support; not in near history, nor far history, and not in fact.... You just want the status quo... Sorry... It doesn't live here any more...Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:40 AM
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