BECAUSE THOSE 'JOB CREATORS' DIDN'T CREATE THEIR WEALTH IN A BUBBLE, IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD, SWEAT AND MANY DEATHS OF MANY THAT CAME BEFORE THEM. WE CREATED A SOCIETY WITH RULES AND LAWS TO HELP THEM BUILD THAT MONEY. IF THEY DON'T WANT TO SHARE IT, GET THE **** OUT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
You cannot be serious. Nobody can be this ******* dense. The American corporate model is about sharing the wealth with the employees? We have a market economy. Workers sell their time, labor and skills in consideration of compensation being paid. That is it. Corporate business has never been about taking care if employees and sharing wealth. Frankly, that misguided idea is servitude. Do you not see that?
Maybe this seems cold to you, but it is not. I would much rather be free to work where I please than be in reliance upon my corporate nanny taking care of me.
I am sure you do not remember, but once we had something called mill villages in this country. The worker would move into a shitty little mill house given to him and his family. He was given food. He was paid a shitty little wage. He was totally dependent upon the mill. This is servitude. I would much rather develop and market my skills to those who pay me the most.
Now, maybe you do not have the stomach for this. So be it. You can live a miserable life on handouts if that is what you choose.
Honestly, you are not worth talking to. You have hare brained notions about what America should be and are apparently ignorant of how a market economy works. I pity you.
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Why Thomas Jefferson Favored Profit Sharing
By David Cay Johnston
The founders, despite decades of rancorous disagreements about almost every other aspect of their grand experiment, agreed that America would survive and thrive only if there was widespread ownership of land and businesses.
George Washington, nine months before his inauguration as the first president, predicted that America "will be the most favorable country of any kind in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit." And, he continued, "it will not be less advantageous to the happiness of the lowest class of people, because of the equal distribution of property."
The second president, John Adams, feared "monopolies of land" would destroy the nation and that a business aristocracy born of inequality would manipulate voters, creating "a system of subordination to all... The capricious will of one or a very few" dominating the rest. Unless constrained, Adams wrote, "the rich and the proud" would wield economic and political power that "will destroy all the equality and liberty, with the consent and acclamations of the people themselves."
James Madison, the Constitution's main author, described inequality as an evil, saying government should prevent "an immoderate, and especially unmerited, accumulation of riches." He favored "the silent operation of laws which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigents towards a state of comfort."
Alexander Hamilton, who championed manufacturing and banking as the first Treasury secretary, also argued for widespread ownership of assets, warning in 1782 that, "whenever a discretionary power is lodged in any set of men over the property of their neighbors, they will abuse it."
Late in life, Adams, pessimistic about whether the republic would endure, wrote that
the goal of the democratic government was not to help the wealthy and powerful but to achieve "the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/02/07/why-thomas-jefferson-favored-profit-sharing-245454.html
HALF OF CAPITAL GAINS AND DIVIDENDS GO TO THE TOP 1/10TH OF 1% OF US
80% of the population owns 5% of the wealth.
Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power
The middle class has been eviscerated.
THE WALTON FAMILY (WALMART) HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN THE BOTTOM 41% OF US
(Re-)Introducing: The American School of Economics
When the United States became independent from Britain it also rebelled against the British System of economics, characterized by Adam Smith, in favor of the American School based on protectionism and infrastructure and prospered under this system for almost 200 years to become the wealthiest nation in the world. Unrestrained free trade resurfaced in the early 1900s culminating in the Great Depression and again in the 1970s culminating in the current Economic Meltdown.
Closely related to mercantilism, it can be seen as contrary to classical economics. It consisted of these three core policies:
protecting industry through selective high tariffs (especially 1861–1932) and through subsidies (especially 1932–70)
government investments in infrastructure creating targeted internal improvements (especially in transportation)
a national bank with policies that promote the growth of productive enterprises rather than speculation.
It is a capitalist economic school based on the Hamiltonian economic program
Frank Bourgin's 1989 study of the Constitutional Convention shows that direct government involvement in the economy was intended by the Founders
The reason for this was the economic and financial chaos the nation suffered under the Articles of Confederation. The goal was to ensure that dearly-won political independence was not lost by being economically and financially dependent on the powers and princes of Europe. The creation of a strong central government able to promote science, invention, industry and commerce was seen as an essential means of promoting the general welfare and making the economy of the United States strong enough for them to determine their own destiny.
American School of Economics
American School (economics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
