May 8 2013: I would like to focus more on your question of equality and opportunity. Does equality produce more or less opportunity? How do we enforce equality, is this a job for government (force), how do we define what is equal? When we are born different, with different goals and a different life, how is this equal? Does the ends justify the means? I would say no, when we try to make things equal it takes away freedom and in turn hurts us as a whole to strive for better technology and being better people. We worry about what other people have and not focusing on how to actual obtain a better life. If you want opportunity we need freedom from government. Government is needed but very little compared to what we have to day. The only way government can create opportunity is to take way opportunity from some one else. We are all corrupt to one another, so its better to have communication with one another but not power to alter some ones life.
Apr 6 2013: Well that's what happens when we get more government, inmates and lower income citizens live better than the hard working lower middle class. We need less government power in are markets from schooling to prison. But yet some people think the government needs more power. They haven't learned that the government is the corporations. Are government is sold all the time, and it will always be for sale. The only way to fix the problem is to limit government powers by voting.
Mar 26 2013: You have achieved success through failure, means you have learned from your experiences of failures and have succeed. You were never really trying to fail.
Mar 22 2013: See this is where we lost capitalism, Why should somebody that got married or graduated be guaranteed a wage higher than some one that hasn't. Maybe we should guarantee $25 an hour for someone that has a bachelors degree. Should it not be what he/she is worth to the company and them selves for what they get paid. I don't agree with minimum wage because it doesn't help the poor obtain a "living wage". It interferes with business and the markets, people hire less making less wealth in are community for everybody including the poor. More Jobs equal more production which equals more wealth. With wealth the conditions of living will rise across the broad from poor to wealthy. There will always be inequality, we were born unequal with different skills and different families. Inequality has more to due with wealth mobility than minimum wage and we need to find out why we have lost are wealth mobility in the US and I bet government has something to do with it!!!
Mar 18 2013: I'm the problem with the United States? What a laugh. I'm the one with the mental illness but your the one with the conspiracy theories. I wish only 30,000 were out of work. True Poverty is not in the USA, its only in third world countries, where people are with out essential living needs.
Mar 14 2013: Poverty in the usa?
Who is doing with out can't stay out of simple trouble and the rest get government assistance. I don't feel sorry for the people that can't stay out of trouble sorry!!!
I'm also from the show me state, so show me somebody that is doing with out essential needs to life that is not voluntary!!!
Mar 11 2013: Wealth can only be destroyed, created or exchanged. You can exchange many different types of wealth for loss or gain. Negative wealth does not exist, this does not mean debt does not exist or economic loss does not exist. Debt is an exchange of wealth and economic loss is the destruction of wealth.
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A comment on Conversation: If communism was working the way its progenitors wanted it to, would it be better than capitalism?
A reply on Conversation: A stepped minimum wage
A comment on Conversation: If you try to fail and you succeed, what have you accomplished?
A comment on Conversation: A stepped minimum wage
A reply on Conversation: Doing the math
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E-URmNAa5o
A reply on Conversation: Doing the math
A comment on Conversation: Doing the math
Who is doing with out can't stay out of simple trouble and the rest get government assistance. I don't feel sorry for the people that can't stay out of trouble sorry!!!
I'm also from the show me state, so show me somebody that is doing with out essential needs to life that is not voluntary!!!
A reply on Conversation: Debt Is not real
A reply on Conversation: Debt Is not real
A reply on Conversation: Debt Is not real
Then Look at the definition of Money
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Money?s=t
Do you see the difference, you can loan or loss wealth with out money but can't loan money or loss money with out wealth