All his ABC agencies were a bandaid on a septic wound

Darkness gets it

It's the corporations; the defense contractors make money off of endless wars, the manufacturers make money off of outsourced jobs in places like China, the colleges make money off people like you who are willing to go into massive debt just to have a shot if they can afford it. The government is just one aspect of a much larger profit web.

The only reason our economy bounced back was because of war profiteering. After that boom, thing receeded back to how they were. Festering

Trump boomer make me wanna commit self end

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my dude, do you not understand that these same accusations can be thrown the other way too? Gov't starts the wars, gov't subsidized colleges, etc

truth @One Shot Paddy

@One Shot Paddy pretty much yeah

AYYYYY

WE ALL AGREE

Noice

thank you @One Shot Paddy

Ok, so we at least realize we're fighting the same people, yeah?

I have one who shows up in my fb feed all the time

yeah

Why does the government start the wars? Because warfare in the middle east helps to drive up the price of oil which means further profits for the oil industry. Why does the government subsidize college education? Because they know that the colleges will not lower their profits if they didn't so therefore they've created a bandaid solution that benefits some but ultimately still ensures that colleges are paid what they want.

So "easy" fix is to have the govt have as little inflence on the private sector and vice versa. Only interacting when necessary under strict and well defined criteria

Oh also the warfare earns defense contractors trillions annually

And who pays the price? Poor people

With our money. With our health. With our lives

We defang both serpants, and feast on their meat so to say

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They don’t care about flesh and blood individuals

The State's only ""job"" should be as an officiator/witness to the free choices of the governing populace

With our very souls

It’s not their own lives at risk

(*imo*)

But you can keep shifting blame again by saying that the only reason that corps have the power to start wars is because the gov't has a military. Among SO SO many other blame shifts. This is just gonna keep continuing lol

@Foxhound with our very souls

@AKAlexei ok, we just seem to be coming from different sides of the same issue. And I do get where you're coming from

Wrong. The states duty is to prepare itself and the economy for collapse and to prevent it for the good of it's people.

Like agreed - but

Absolute power absolutely corrupts

y e s s s

so why don't we balance the power

Our republic tried

Tree of liberty and all that

The aim should be to prepare the nation for armed conflict or economic collapse.

if balance were everyone's self interest. . . ***cough*** FreeMarketLaissezFaireBlahBlah ***coughcoughcoughLUNGcough***

The state's duty is to represent the people on our behalf, make laws where necessary, collect taxes where necessary, and uphold those laws through legal services. It also has an oath to promote the general welfare, which many can and do argue is a simple way of saying it has the right to keep people from ending up broke, homeless, destitute, and with no way out other than a bullet