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The vogue form of capitalism emphasizes monetary investment in stocks, bonds, T-Bills, real estate, commodities and precious metals. This requires reading volumes of paperwork prepared by people like Madoff. This entitles CEOs, big corporate lawyers, financial investors and monopolistic foreign corporations. Lots of fun. It makes the creation of wealth the sole goal. Morality is totally back burner as is fun. Competition is actually non-existent.

The former form of capitalism emphasized the ownership of small businesses and small farms. Owners used to take great pride in their little companies. People respect the small business and farm owner like no other. But this style of capitalism has been replaced by a capitalism that doesn’t produce anything but paperwork. In the name of productivity, entire nations have been rendered sterile and not productive.

Is it better to go to war with a country that can manufacture tanks, or a country that can produce paperwork, laws, lawyers and confusion?

Is the production of documentation a sign of strength, or a sign of weakness?
The vogue form of capitalism favors free trade that sacrifices not only domestic productivity, but all the regulations (regarding safety, etc) and all the unions (that protect the domestic worker). Current society is in favor of having monopolistic unregulated foreign business do all the production. Current society would rather incur fantastic national debt and pay staggering unemployment compensation over, shudder, tariffs.

As bad as current governments are, they should control their own destiny and protect the rights and ambitions of their own citizens rather than allow themselves to be controlled by foreign dictatorships that control their debt and everything they buy as well as all their jobs.

This ultra liberal is really an ultra conservative who prefers to return to the days of tariffs, small federal government, small police forces, small businesses and small farms. This ultra liberal finds the government of 1776 to be more liberal and modern than our present fascistic, money centered state.

Let our present regime/government allow foreigners steal our software, copyrights, movies, songs and jobs. In fact, let’s give tax incentives to aid the pillage, rape and plunder. Let’s pay our politicians to destroy our nation!

This ultra liberal likes the ultra conservative idea of returning to the small government of 1776 complete with prosperous small businesses and small farms.

Of course there would be no slavery and woman would have the right to vote. They would also have the right to own their own farms and small businesses as well! I mean really own! Not just stock. Not just bonds. They, all of us, could own, run and control our own small business!

The crash of the early 1900s was due to a Ponzi scheme whereby investors could borrow money to buy stock with little down. The crash of the early 2000s was due to a Ponzi scheme whereby investors could borrow money to speculate on real estate with little down. It’s easy to fix both problems – just require substantial down payments.

Viva America of 1776!

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’
Ronald Reagan

I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan

People don’t start wars, governments do.
Ronald Reagan

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan

The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last–but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Ronald Reagan

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

If you’re afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again.
Ronald Reagan

“The people have not created this disaster in our economy; the federal government has. It has overspent, overestimated, and over-regulated. It has failed to deliver services within the revenues it should be allowed to raise from taxes. In the 34 years since the end of World War II, it has spent $448 billion more than it has collected in taxes — $448 billion of printing-press money, which has made every dollar you earn worth less and less. At the same time, the federal government has cynically told us that high taxes on business will in some way “solve” the problem and allow the average taxpayer to pay less. Well, business is not a taxpayer; it is a tax collector. Business has to pass its tax burden on to the customer as part of the cost of doing business. You and I pay taxes imposed on business every time we go to the store. Only people pay taxes, and it is political demagoguery or economic illiteracy to try and tell us otherwise.

The key to restoring the health of the economy lies in cutting taxes. At the same time, we need to get the waste out of federal spending. This does not mean sacrificing essential services, nor do we need to destroy the system of benefits which flow to the poor, elderly, the sick and the handicapped. We have long since committed ourselves, as a people, to help those among us who cannot take care of themselves. But the federal government has proven to be the costliest and most inefficient provider of such help we could possibly have.

We must put an end to the arrogance of a federal establishment which accepts no blame for our condition, cannot be relied upon to give us a fair estimate of our situation and utterly refuses to live within its means. I will not accept the supposed “wisdom” which has it that the federal bureaucracy has become so powerful that it can no longer be changed or controlled by any administration. As President I would use every power at my command to make the federal establishment respond to the will and the collective wishes of the people.

We must force the entire federal bureaucracy to live in the real world of reduced spending, streamlined function and accountability to the people it serves. We must review the function of the federal government to determine which of those are the proper province of levels of government closer to the people.

The 10th article of the Bill of Rights is explicit in pointing out that the federal government should do only those things specifically called for in the Constitution. All others shall remain with the states or the people. We haven’t been observing that 10th article of late. The federal government has taken on functions it was never intended to perform and which it does not perform well. There should be a planned, orderly transfer of such functions to states and communities and a transfer with them of the sources of taxation to pay for them.

The savings in administrative overhead would be considerable and certainly there would be increased efficiency and less bureaucracy.”

“In recent weeks there has been much talk about “excess” oil company profits. I don’t believe we’ve been given all the information we need to make a judgment about this. We should have that information. Government exists to protect us from each other. It is not government’s function to allocate fuel or impose unnecessary restrictions on the marketplace. It is government’s function to determine whether we are being unfairly exploited and if so to take immediate and appropriate action. As President I would do exactly that.”

“In recent months leaders in our government have told us that, we, the people, have lost confidence in ourselves; that we must regain our spirit and our will to achieve our national goals. Well, it is true there is a lack of confidence, an unease with things the way they are. But the confidence we have lost is confidence in our government’s policies. Our unease can almost be called bewilderment at how our defense strength has deteriorated. The great productivity of our industry is now surpassed by virtually all the major nations who compete with us for world markets. And, our currency is no longer the stable measure of value it once was.”

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/government/
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ronald_Reagan
http://reagan2020.us/speeches/candidacy_announcement.asp