http://www.ratical.org/corporations/demoBrief.html

Cultural empowerment can only be measured in ascetics.

P.S. I missed out the “administration of taxes” in my listing of “rich advantages” (these can include taxes that are removed – land, inheritance, gains, etc).

I think Senator Webb used the term ‘our stocks’ to emphasis what [in his opinion] should be, agrandising the divide between “rich” and “poor”. Yet the poor have actually become better off, as it were, by default. And at the moment the war is between the “middle classes” and the rich.

Most of the poor will be able to clutter their lives with useless junk peddled to them by the rich. And they will become fulfilled in their determination to allow ignorance to prevail. Who does set value?

Landmark property, key artworks, items of historical SIGNIFICANCE, rare coins, stamps in optimum [choice] condition only ever seem to accrue in value. These have become the real assets, the long term assets. How many great artworks are in the hands of the humble classes?

Very few people don’t have TVs, fridges, washing machines, even microwave ovens. Their possessions may be of the lowest quality, but pound for pound, the poor are a million miles better off than their counterpart 50 years ago. Those that bail society choose to because society is unfair. The increasing numbers of “noticably homeless” people in large cities are a direct result of institutions such as mental facilities being emptied of their prozac dependent zombies [society's compassion - sic]. No wonder these people become drug addicts!

Stocks are just another way of gambling for the ignorant. For ‘our stocks’ to work then finance mechanisms need to be removed. No dividends, no speculation, just honest hard work. But if you had a world without stocks, without finance, for things to be fair, you would also have to have a world without profits because it is because of profits that the rich are rich and the poor are poor, but Senator Webb is not really addressing the poor. He is addressing the middle classes, who feel they should be given an equal oportunity in accumulating assets, some of those prized assets – maybe.

There Senator Webb has a point; free trade agreements, the tender process, insider trading, preferencial government funding. Those are a couple of areas the rich have an absolute advantage over the emerging middle classes [who used to be poor]. He is supporting Churchill’s capitalist ideology, may the best man win. But we must be clear this is not about “the poor” persay.

Disgruntled farmers tend not to make very balanced socially fair individuals. Having said that, to his testament, Jon appears to accept his ‘lot’ and gets on with it. If there are improvements available, he’ll run with them (going on what has been said). That is good, because the hardest thing in times where change is needed, where change is required, the hardest thing is to make changes. The easiest thing is to say everything is ok and it will all “blow over”.

I also have high hopes for Mr Webb. He lead his victory lap with his boots in his hands. Lets hope he puts them to good use.

Btw, James Webb showed the depth of his understanding of the issues, including Iraq. Tester is greener, but he has the correct foci.

The total capitalization of the stock market as of March 2006 was estimated at $46 trillion.
The SS fund has less than $2 trillion in government bonds.

Forty acres and a mule. Yeah, that’s the tikkit.

Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.
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