Comments by "coolmodelguy" (@coolmodelguy6304) on "The Jimmy Dore Show" channel.

For the wealthy, their economy is stocks, bonds and derivatives. For the wealthy, the productive economy is simply overhead, to be cut, trimmed and shrunk, because they don't think they need a productive economy.
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@cynthiajohnson9412 - This is was has astonished me. There was a Marine Corps major general named Smedley Darlington Butler who retired in 1931. He wrote a book called "War is a Racket", short and interesting. He was quoted as saying the following: "I spent 33 years...being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.... "I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City [Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.... "In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested....I had...a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions....I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three cities. The Marines operated on three continents..." Turns out our military is used not for national defense, but to defend the interests of wealthy capitalists at home and abroad.
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Here is a thought, let us have no federal taxes at all and institute a hard wealth cap for individuals and businesses. All capital gains, all earnings gains above the cap are taxed at 100%. A wealth cap would stabilize the economy and eliminate virtually all speculation fueled economic bubbles. A wealth cap would also eliminate virtually all private money in politics.
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@cynthiajohnson9412 - My entire life I have been interested in the military, mainly because I am a model builder. I am pushing now 60 and only became aware of our county's economic situation a few years ago. Definitely soured me toward doing anything further with military models.
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Glad to see someone else actually knows about the F.I.R.E. sector of the economy. My calculations are that in the USA, the FIRE sector takes more than 23% out of our economy and that percentage is growing annually. You simply cannot have unlimited growth of financial assets without collapsing the economy.
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Captain Jack - Thank you for tarnishing the name of my favorite movie pirate. You just thanked Chris Cornelius for being one of the few to give you a positive response . . . when you do not deserve any. Setting aside your vaunted intelligence, straight out of the gate you are insulting, vulgar, condescending, dismissive, and just made an all around ass out of yourself. Love the fake polite farewells to those you spit on. You seem to me to be a highly ignorant blowhard who lives in a bubble of your own creation. For someone who was not feeling well and therefor could not engage in sufficient discussion, you certainly have appeared a great many times in this comment thread to berate those who would try to engage you in dialog. Normally, I like to comment on policy or the topics posed in a video. However, you rose to such high prominence on the butt-wipe scale, I felt that I must present you with accolades that you have merited.
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Here is a thought, let us have no federal taxes at all and institute a hard wealth cap for individuals and businesses. All capital gains, all earnings gains above the cap are taxed at 100%. A wealth cap would stabilize the economy and eliminate virtually all speculation fueled economic bubbles. A wealth cap would also eliminate virtually all private money in politics.
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@gfarrell80 - I'll look them up. Meanwhile in the same vein, John Perkins book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" outlines the post WW2 conquest of 3rd world countries for the United States Empire, the CIA and State Department working with the IMF and American corporations, to subjugate and subordinate smaller countries with resources to the USA.
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@gfarrell80 - Now if only the people of this country had heeded Eisenhower's words. However, the wealthy were hard at work, creating fear of the communists and other divisive distractions. The job has been done well, Americans are divided and fighting each other, while the wealthy pay little mind except for the periodic self satisfaction seeing their plans working so nicely.
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Let us see this so-called PayGo Rule allowing legislation waivers in action . . . then I will believe voting for PayGo Rules was a good idea.
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Has anyone compared the number of U.S. citizens killed by police per year . . to how many U.S. citizens are killed in jihadists terror attacks each year? According to the New America Foundation, jihadists killed 94 people inside the United States between 2005 and 2015. If we use the FBI data for "justifiable homicides" by police, that trends steady at around 350 people per year. Based on that we can extrapolate that 3500 people were killed by police over the same period of time referenced by the New America Foundation. Add up those fatal killings over the decade and our police are responsible for killing 37 times more U.S.citizens than terrorist jihadists are responsible for over the same period of time. Why are we as Americans spending so many lives and so much treasure in this "War against Terrorism" abroad when we have a domestic terrorism situation at home involving those that are supposed to "serve and protect" us? The answer is that we as a population are being managed. I'm 56 years old and until last year I spent my life being fooled and lied to by our media and politicians (even thought I thought I knew quite a lot about economics and politics . . . not!). Now I recognize that I and everyone else is being played, and played by our own people. These traitors call themselves Americans, but their only loyalty is to themselves for greed or power. Like it or not, we are going to have to take charge and do a real purge, perhaps even changing our economic and government systems in the process. First step, no more bought and paid for politicians. This is something "We the People" still directly control. With our vote we can take control by not voting for any politician that owes allegiance to corrupting forces. Second step, we the people need a real plan. The JD platform is a start but we need a fundamental development plan for the future of all humanity . . . not just our local nation states.
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If you are referring to the Federal debt, none of that money was used by your average citizen of the USA. All of it went into the pockets of the wealthy. It is the wealthy who cannot live with the extraordinary means they already have, they must have more. That means, eventually we will have to make the wealthy ordinary or submit to being ruled by the wealthy. Also, the next generations are already paying right now, no wealth, great debt, stagnant wages and wealth transfer to the oligarchy.
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We the People of the United States of America are under systematic and deliberate attack from enemies within. The battleground is economic, the weapons are legislative, the engineers making the weapons are our own representatives in government (not all of them, but most), and the goal of our enemies is to divide society into two classes of people. The Upper Class will have all the wealth, power, privileges, and rights. The Under Class will have no wealth, no power, no privileges and no rights. When the goal of our enemies is achieved, the democratic republic that is the United States of America will no longer exist and a dystopia will take its place. Make no mistake, this is a purposeful and sustained attack against our Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and We the People. Just FYI here: (A dystopia is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.) The greatest middle class the world has ever experienced was built up in 30 years after World War-2 in the United States of America. Then right about the mid 1970’s the capitalist elites faced two crises simultaneously, the falling rate of profitability in industry and pressing questions from the electorate surrounding the legitimacy of capitalism. Prompted into action to save themselves, the capitalist elites co-opted OUR very own politicians whose duty is to look after us. Ever since then political efforts in the USA have been focused and unified, upon creating the legislative machinery to weaken the middle class, extract its wealth, and reduce it to the Under Class. Conservatives and neoliberals have then spent the last 42 years increasing the income and monopoly of wealth in the economy for the 1% at the top and creating a wealth extraction economy for the middle class and the poor. This is not enough for them, they have also set out to dept enslave not only our own people and government, but also entire countries . . . for the sole purpose of setting up wealth extraction economies in those countries. Going outside of our country to extract wealth makes the treasonous United States politicians and guilty United States businesses into something worse than they already represent, they became international gangsters and extortionists. Meanwhile on the home front, the entire 42-year period has been spent by Republican politicians extolling the conservative virtues of individualism and preaching the “rightness” of the neoliberal supported “Reagonomics”, or “Trickle Down Economics”, or “Free Market Economics”, to the electorate, while creating a monopolistic economy that has decimated the liberty of individuals. It appears from my vantage point that the politicians making the policies do not actually believe in the U.S.-Constitution, nor are they doing their sworn duty to protect it. The "right-wing and "corporate owned" politicians we elect are themselves the “domestic enemies” of the Constitution because their policies will lead the destruction of the Constitution. Of course we had no way of knowing that until recently, because we trust our politicians and could simply not believe they would deceive us in any manner. However 42 years of historical records do not lie about what the conservative right wing and corporate democrats in our government have done with the economy and to us. There is a way for We the People to strike back at those attacking us and win, in fact this is the only way. The Framers of the Constitution were very smart about this. We the People can perform “Election Campaign Finance Reform” ourselves instead of waiting forever for the reforms the politicians will never undertake on their own. Plus there is nothing in the Constitution that declares "Free Market Capitalism" is the one and only economic model for the land, the Framers very wisely put that responsibility of choice into the hands of "We the People". We must start electing only those persons who will not take campaign contributions from any source of wealth. Our politicians have been bought and paid for by wealthy donors for 40 years, all the republicans certainly are bought, and the "Corporate Democrats" are bought as well. These politicians represent donors not voters, and are thus corrupted. The only clean politicians we have are those like Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna, who raise money from the people and not from corporate/wealthy donors. We have to vote out the corruption and vote in only those that pledge to serve the peoples interests. They can prove their loyalty by never taking money from business, corporations, millionaires, billionaires, political action committees (PAC's) or lobbyists. They must also pledge in perpetuity not to seek employment with PAC's or lobbying interests after their term in office. This is the only way we can protect our U.S.-Constitution and honor the efforts of those who protected it with their lives, so that “We the People” will have its protection in perpetuity like the Framers intended.
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@michaelepstein2570 - What have you concluded from all of this research? In doing as much as you indicate for over ten years, you must have drawn some conclusions. What are they?
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@michaelepstein2570 - After reading all four of your responses, what I can say is, you are not wrong. There is a reason people do not vote, you wrote about it in the final line of your first response. The wealthy will scorch the earth rather than give up any of their power and they hold that power by manipulating us, so that we do not vote or we vote in ignorance. Voting has been important to me all my life, however for a majority of my voting life I have been relying on the news media for information. Working all day, taking care of family, doing chores in the house and yard work outside the house, that left precious little time to be well informed. That all changed for me over a span of three years. As I left the workforce and devoted my energies to create my own business, information not available to me as an employee, started at first to annoy me, then alarm me. Finally I decided to research the economy in depth, with the end result looking like we as a country are screwed. Accumulated wealth is many times larger than the economy and growing at a faster rate than the economy. That information leads to one conclusion, our democracy is an illusion. One can forgive workers for not being informed, they are on a hamster wheel they cannot get off from, and that is by design. The wealthy want it that way, so until we figure out a way to deal with them, we are seriously screwed.
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Yeah, but will the robots buy what the owner/donor class manufactures, once there are no more humans earning wages?
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Imagine being almost sixty years old and finding out in the past few years that almost everything I believed in was a propaganda lie. I'm really pissed off. It took me three years after I initiated my own research project into our economy to dig up this simple truth, the wealthy want to stay on top and will scorch the earth before they give up their power. I never thought I would be alive during a time of conflict, but the events of this new year have fractured the country. I want to move forward but I can see that the wealthy are never going to let that happen, therefor they must be opposed. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting rich, but not so rich that "power for power's sake" becomes the sole reason for living.
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Here is a thought, let us have no federal taxes at all and institute a hard wealth cap for individuals and businesses. All capital gains, all earnings gains above the cap are taxed at 100%. A wealth cap would stabilize the economy and eliminate virtually all speculation fueled economic bubbles. A wealth cap would also eliminate virtually all private money in politics.
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