In my blog, The Non-Trad Manifesto, http:// www.blondmama.blogspot.com, I wrote two blogs that illustrate further what I am about to write about. The first one was posted April 11th, it was titled, "The Republicans/Tea Party= Government Destruction" and the second was published May 20 titled, "Capitalism = Greedism". The Capitalism form of government doesn't work; I posit to say it never has worked! When the major object of the government is to make money at all cost instead of working to protect it's citizens and to raise the quality of life of everyone, it's malfunctioning!
I say we need to form a more user friendly form of government, I call it a Socialist/Democracy. Now don't be frightened, Socialism is not Communism, Communism was a bastardization of Socialism. A government that rewards it's people to snoop on their neighbors and report their activities and take away the rights of it's citizens is a dictatorship! Since it limits creativity is will stagnate and it's citizens will rise up in protest like it in The Soviet Union and the fall in Eastern Europe. There are just three pure Communist countries now. North Korea, where it's citizens have been brainwashed into making their leader a demigod, Cuba, where The Castro Family has lead the country since the revolution many decades ago and they don't have access to modern cars and other 21st century products. Both North Korea and Cuba are economic basket cases. China also has a Communist form of government and looking from the outside it looks good, Shiny skyscrapers, entrepreneurs, and glitzy public events like The Summer Olympics but delve into it's core and you find slave labor in sweat shops, impoverished rural areas and freedom denied to dissidents( remember Teinimen Square).
No,I'm talking about pure Socialism. Where some programs and institutions are owned by all communally. My idea is to have everyone pay 10 % of their earnings and this includes the wealthy. The super wealthy, the billionaires + crowd would be required to pay three million dollars a year into a fund to create public center funds for government factories to employ people to make products used by federal and state governments. Like supplies to build government buildings and office supplies including furniture and such. Private sector businesses would operate much as they do now.
The only way the wealthy could get a tax break is if they signed a government contract stating that they will keep their businesses open and never move their businesses to foreign countries. If they broke the contract they would be fined in the millions of dollars(no slap on the hands, it would hurt them) They also would be open to civil litigation by their employees!
There would be 90% employment because the government employment bureau would round up the homeless, the foreclosed upon, and even vagabonds(people that catch rides on freight trains) and they would taken to a retrofitted factory building and be cleaned up shaved and given donated clothing. Their would be beds and living quarters for them to sleep while they are retrained to work in government factories and get a living wage. Those with addictions would get therapy to rid them of them. We cant waste a single person in this country!
We do need a BIG GOVERNMENT! Most of the crime and health expenses in this country are caused by ADDICTS! We've tried to persuade our citizens to quit smoking, drinking, and using recreational drugs. It hasn't worked because of the tobacco and alcoholic related businesses lobbyists keeping the FDA grandfathering those two hazardous products as legal to sell. The government should be given the power to close all those factories and lands that grow the ingredients that produce alcoholic beverages and tobacco fields and factories that make cigarettes and other tobacco products. These lands can be retrofitted to grow nutritious vegetables and fruits, wineries can sell grape juice and also can grow oranges to make Orange juice. Tobacco plants can be ground up and thrown into a compost heap to fertilize the lands to grow veggies and fruits. The factories can be retrofitted to be canneries and to make processed juices.
This would create jobs for psychiatrists and psychologists to cure the alcoholics, smokeaholics,and druggies of their addictions! The use of these deadly products is a slow suicide! In most religions suicide is a sin, I agree! The government has to be given the power to prevent suicides.
What would we get for our slightly higher taxes? Free health care, including, dental implants(dentures don't work as well and we need to use more up to date products), Some plastic surgery procedures like tummy tucks, liposuction, and botox injections, and all implants for saving lives! We would also get free education including up to a BA degree in public Universities. Free mass transit, and a system that would offer deep discounts to people that sign up to either that YWCA or YMCA. Both public and private sector companies would be given tax breaks for helping their employees to lead a healthy lifestyle.
Crime, spousal abuse,and murder we be cut down deeply because we would be a country that doesn't smoke, drink or use recreational drugs. The cartels would have to take their business elsewhere! We would be saying, "Get the Hell out of here! We don't want your business!" Other countries would be watching us and see what a great country we have and want to imitate us. What a wonderful World it would be!