Rant against "the man"

[quester68]

I am sooo pissed about the social structure of America right now. I just spent 90 minutes of my life learing fun facts such as the top 20% of the US population controls 84% of the nation's wealth. Doesn't that figure just scream "democracy" and "fairness"? Not only that but while we have cut spending on welfare programs the government is giving

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As a statistical representation of "the man" I respond

[seamonkey314]

Actually, "democracy" has nothing to do with economic equality. While the fact that a president is elected by an electorate, instead of the popular vote may not be democratic, and economic (and therefor social) upperclass doesn't matter, provided every citizen recieves one vote

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[seamonkey314]

See what you've done with lj? You only have to write half as much as gets returned in comment form. And you thought the one liners in Xanga were any good...

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[seamonkey314]

And don't get me started on how bad an idea forced economic equality is...

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[quester68]

I concede to many of these points, however I do not think that our government should help big companies which are not in risk of going bankrupt. If these companies choose to advertise in a country (or region) where they have a large risk of failure, that's great but I don't want money taken from the general populace through taxation to pay for it. Also, I don't advocate cancer and I do want a cure to be found but I also don't think that companies who find tehse treatemnts should be able to profit not only from the research (because I can promise you that not all of that money went into the research) but from the sale of their product as well. As for the ammont of money, while $480 billion went to buisnesses as subsadies only $20 billion went to the needy in our country. And, as you have so elequently put it most of that gets sucked up into the bearucratic system we have in place.

[notbeth89]

You guys use too big of words. And too long of posts. Yup. Talk about something other than the goverment, life football. I can understand football.

[seamonkey314]

I talk about football far more often than politics in my own journal. I can't help that brendeeaaan is an uber-liberal

[notbeth89]

Haha. Nope, no you can't. Wait, brendeeeeaaaan? What? Oh well. Nucklehead McCormy.

[quester68]

dude, it's knucklehead McCarny!

[pretty_plain]

hey, it's morgan. so glad you have a livejournal now! you mind if i add you as a friend?
very interesting post. i often think about that sort of thing too.