Comments by "coolmodelguy" (@coolmodelguy6304) on "The Ring of Fire" channel.

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  4. Lori Cataldi - This why we have to refocus our energy. Our efforts are wasted when we try to do reforms of any kind, because those reforms will always be dismantled. Instead of changing a myriad of different laws trying to combat undue influence, there are only two simple rules that must be placed into law. First in an Annual Income Cap, the second is an Accumulated Wealth Cap. It is vast wealth in the hands of individuals which is the root cause of all our woes and the dysfunction of wealth inequality in our worldwide collective societies. Vast wealth is the toolkit used to dismantle all reforms put into law, and the one glaring example I will put forward is FDR's New Deal. In the decades since the New Deal, the wielders of vast wealth have been dismantling the New Deal piece by piece. Now the New Deal is gone, destroyed. This happens to every law, every reform ever put in place to protect the majority. There is a simple guide as to what the caps should be. By all means, earn your millions until you have enough for you and your family to live in the utmost of luxury for a lifetime. Beyond that point, return everything you earn back to the society that helped you create the wealth in the first place. No one makes millions in a vacuum, everyone who does so has the help of the entire society of human beings . . . every millionaire made is a joint venture with society. I'm 57 years old and my eldest daughter is 30 years old. Between us we have the life experiences of our generations. We did a "thought experiment" to ascertain what the income and wealth limits should be. Her ideas encompassed more than my own, so we generally went with her numbers. I would like to see more of us doing such "thought experiments" so we can come up with a consensus that will make an annual income and accumulated wealth cap palatable to the majority. Do these two things and all dark money political contributions evaporate down to a level where the will of the few no longer dominates the will of the many. We already know excessive wealth beyond what is needed to live a life of utmost luxury is mostly then used to exert power over the powerless.
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  16. OrionPax09 - This why we have to refocus our energy. Our efforts are wasted when we try to do reforms of any kind, because those reforms will always be dismantled. Instead of changing a myriad of different laws trying to combat undue influence, there are only two simple rules that must be placed into law. First in an Annual Income Cap, the second is an Accumulated Wealth Cap. It is vast wealth in the hands of individuals which is the root cause of all our woes and the dysfunction of wealth inequality in our worldwide collective societies. Vast wealth is the toolkit used to dismantle all reforms put into law, and the one glaring example I will put forward is FDR's New Deal. In the decades since the New Deal, the wielders of vast wealth have been dismantling the New Deal piece by piece. Now the New Deal is gone, destroyed. This happens to every law, every reform ever put in place to protect the majority. There is a simple guide as to what the caps should be. By all means, earn your millions until you have enough for you and your family to live in the utmost of luxury for a lifetime. Beyond that point, return everything you earn back to the society that helped you create the wealth in the first place. No one makes millions in a vacuum, everyone who does so has the help of the entire society of human beings . . . every millionaire made is a joint venture with society. I'm 57 years old and my eldest daughter is 30 years old. Between us we have the life experiences of our generations. We did a "thought experiment" to ascertain what the income and wealth limits should be. Her ideas encompassed more than my own, so we generally went with her numbers. I would like to see more of us doing such "thought experiments" so we can come up with a consensus that will make an annual income and accumulated wealth cap palatable to the majority. Do these two things and all dark money political contributions evaporate down to a level where the will of the few no longer dominates the will of the many. We already know excessive wealth beyond what is needed to live a life of utmost luxury is mostly then used to exert power over the powerless.
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  25. OrionPax09 - I agree with you 100%. It is as plain as day what trump is doing, destroying everything the USA has built up and stood for since Roosevelt was in office, both domestically and internationally. However trump is but a symptom of what the republicans and corporate democrats have been doing to our country ever since the Powell Memo was written. In the Powell Memo, Lewis Powell quotes Milton Friedman about a powerful attack under way against the American system. Here is the quote: In a foreword to these lectures, famed Dr. Milton Friedman of Chicago warned: “It (is) crystal clear that the foundations of our free society are under wide-ranging and powerful attack — not by Communist or any other conspiracy but by misguided individuals parroting one another and unwittingly serving ends they would never intentionally promote.” With four and a half decades between then and now, I would put forward that what both Powell and Friedman have wrought with their policies have been far more destructive to the American people than those whom they so feared back then. The republicans and the oligarchs have been fighting against the American people ever since General Smedley Butler thwarted the republican and businessman's attempted coup against the USA in the 1930's. Now they are close to getting what they want, which can be compared to the partitioning of England after the Industrial Revolution. The peasants (that would be us), are getting kicked off the land (out of the economy) . . . where we will have to fend for ourselves (no more democracy) and hopefully starve to death. The Powell Memo: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-memo-a-corporate-blueprint-to-dominate-democracy/
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  28. Brian Garrow - This why we have to refocus our energy. Our efforts are wasted when we try to do reforms of any kind, because those reforms will always be dismantled. Instead of changing a myriad of different laws trying to combat undue influence, there are only two simple rules that must be placed into law. First in an Annual Income Cap, the second is an Accumulated Wealth Cap. It is vast wealth in the hands of individuals which is the root cause of all our woes and the dysfunction of wealth inequality in our worldwide collective societies. Vast wealth is the toolkit used to dismantle all reforms put into law, and the one glaring example I will put forward is FDR's New Deal. In the decades since the New Deal, the wielders of vast wealth have been dismantling the New Deal piece by piece. Now the New Deal is gone, destroyed. This happens to every law, every reform ever put in place to protect the majority. There is a simple guide as to what the caps should be. By all means, earn your millions until you have enough for you and your family to live in the utmost of luxury for a lifetime. Beyond that point, return everything you earn back to the society that helped you create the wealth in the first place. No one makes millions in a vacuum, everyone who does so has the help of the entire society of human beings . . . every millionaire made is a joint venture with society. I'm 57 years old and my eldest daughter is 30 years old. Between us we have the life experiences of our generations. We did a "thought experiment" to ascertain what the income and wealth limits should be. Her ideas encompassed more than my own, so we generally went with her numbers. I would like to see more of us doing such "thought experiments" so we can come up with a consensus that will make an annual income and accumulated wealth cap palatable to the majority. Do these two things and all dark money political contributions evaporate down to a level where the will of the few no longer dominates the will of the many. We already know excessive wealth beyond what is needed to live a life of utmost luxury is mostly then used to exert power over the powerless.
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  29. J.A. Holland’s Quiet Storm - I agree with you 100%. It is as plain as day what trump is doing, destroying everything the USA has built up and stood for since Roosevelt was in office, both domestically and internationally. However trump is but a symptom of what the republicans and corporate democrats have been doing to our country ever since the Powell Memo was written. In the Powell Memo, Lewis Powell quotes Milton Friedman about a powerful attack under way against the American system. Here is the quote: In a foreword to these lectures, famed Dr. Milton Friedman of Chicago warned: “It (is) crystal clear that the foundations of our free society are under wide-ranging and powerful attack — not by Communist or any other conspiracy but by misguided individuals parroting one another and unwittingly serving ends they would never intentionally promote.” With four and a half decades between then and now, I would put forward that what both Powell and Friedman have wrought with their policies have been far more destructive to the American people than those whom they so feared back then. The republicans and the oligarchs have been fighting against the American people ever since General Smedley Butler thwarted the republican and businessman's attempted coup against the USA in the 1930's. Now they are close to getting what they want, which can be compared to the partitioning of England after the Industrial Revolution. The peasants (that would be us), are getting kicked off the land (out of the economy) . . . where we will have to fend for ourselves (no more democracy) and hopefully starve to death. The Powell Memo: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-memo-a-corporate-blueprint-to-dominate-democracy/
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