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Capitalism works. There are many reasons why this country attracts far more immigrants than we lose to emigration and have done so for more than two centuries but economic freedom and upward social mobility are at the top of the list.

Repeating the lie that creating a favorable business climate does not generate prosperity does not make it true. Communism and socialism, which you are advocating, whether you know it or not or whether you are simply playing the useful idiot role for your puppet masters who have seized control of the Democrat Party, are the fast lane and the slow lane of the same road to poverty and servitude.

Simple question. Are you unemployed by choice? I asked because your posts suggest that you have fallen into the deep well of victimhood and have been convinced that the successful people in this great country are keeping you down there. What was your major, Women's Studies? Medieval Literature?

Actually I'm not advocating either Communism or Socialism. My argument throughout the thread has been we already employ several tenets of socialism in the country, and the ones the get the grief help people and the ones that are ignored allow the wealthy to stuff their pockets.

I would like to see the United States strengthen the middle class. Corporations have not shown that they can use the benefits heaped on them over the past half century to strengthen the middle class, so maybe it's left up to the govt to do that by taking away those benefits and passing them to the citizen. Healthcare and education seem to hit this demographic the hardest, so maybe that is the area that the govt controls unless you guys support a total redistribution of wealth. America's two booms for the middle class in the past century have come at times when taxes on the rich were at the highest 1950's and 1990's. However, currently we are watching the top 1% gobble up the wealth in American while the majority of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. I think that is the fervor that sent our current President to the White House, but I believe he has people duped too. He is business friendly not worker friendly, so that ticked off electorate is in the same place they were 4 years ago.

Been employed since I was 15 and have never not had a job. I'm not even in the demographic I'm trying to stand up for anymore, but I do remember having to decide between health insurance and car insurance. Sorry, I am not the liberal caricature you're trying to create.