Internet taxation is on the way!

[Mike]

Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> On Wed, April 7, 2010 11:38, Chris Rees wrote:
>> On 7 April 2010 08:28, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, April 7, 2010 01:15, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>
>>>> Seriously, how is it not socialist? It's made by the people, for the
>>>> people...
>>> Are you saying that Abraham Lincoln, a member of the republican party,
>>> was
>>> a socialist? It's obvious that you were referencing the Gettysburg
>>> Address: "of the people, by the people, for the people".
>>>
>> I am not at all interested in the political history of the USA, what I
>> am pointing out is that collaboration in the interests of the many is
>> socialism, and definitely not in the interests of the few as in
>> capitalism.
> 
> You (or I) are confusing capitalism and/or socialism with something else
> that I do not know the word for because I am not a native English speaker.
> 
> 
Since the door was opened, I'll continue my rant:

There is nothing wrong with capitalism at all. Unfortunately 
the way America has been implementing capitalism is the WRONG 
way. Here it's all about GREED and ripping off your fellow 
human being so you can make a dollar. That is what lead to our 
recent economic crisis in 2008 under our then leader 
Republican President Bush (that and the unsubstantiated war 
that he started... the excessive, wasteful spending... but 
that's another story).

Well REGULATED capitalism is fine provided you have enough 
social programs to help out ALL of the people in need. We 
don't! Capitalism done right would allow for corporations and 
the wealthy to make profits and PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE 
TAX BURDEN which in turn would pay for more social programs to 
help the less fortunate among us. It would also help to bring 
down our huge national debt. Corporations and the wealthy 
absolutely do not pay their fair share in our country and they 
haven't for many decades. What we have now in America is 
predatory capitalism and government controlled by the wealthy 
through lobbyists, it's ruined many lives in the process.

The first thing Republican President Bush did when the 
economic crisis hit was to bail out the corporations that 
caused the economic problems to begin with. No regulations 
were passed and the PEOPLE that were severely damaged were 
left to fend for themselves. Many lost their homes, their 
savings, their retirements and they have nothing. We have a 
huge homeless problem. No one in our government did anything 
for the actual PEOPLE that were in desperate need.

Fortunately things are beginning to turn around now but we 
need far more action and fast.

"Those that cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" 
- a quote from George Santayana