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Alexcabbie, what most liberals don't understand even though they agree with it, is that people have the right to prosper without being oppressed by those who control the necessities of life. I know that just set off abunch of alarms in people's heads here, but allow me to explain. True wealth is not determined by paper money which we the peoplegive value or little pieces of paper that say you own x% of a company in a man made unnatural market, it's determined by physical assets such as land, water, food, and other resources, and those who control the majority of those resources hold the power in this nation, not the people and not the government.
Think of it this way, if the government collapsed tomorrow and a farmer who has enough land and food to provide for himself and his family has a stock market millionaire show up at his door and offers him a million dollars for his farm, what is the farmer going to say? He's going to tell that guy to wipe his ass with his fancy toilet paper, and at that point he's wealthier than that paper millionaire. Now look at it the other way, lets say the farmer is the only farm for hundreds of miles and there are a thousand people who live in his community, he can now sell his excess crop at whatever price he wants making those people dependent on him and taking their freedom. It's called a monopoly, and those who control it control the people dependent on it.
That's the end result of a "free market," tyrannythrough economic means. The mafia uses the same principle, for instance they owned the vast majority of the garbage disposal business in NYC and when the city did something they didn't like they threatened not to pick up the garbage. Imagine the amount of squalor that would result from a city as small as NYC with as many people that it holds if garbage pick up just stopped. It would be over flowing in a week. Point being the city government was then at the control of the mafia, not the people.
This is what is meant by the majority of wealth being held in the hands of the few allowing them to effectively control the government and thus the people. Most liberals and conservatives agree with competition and that corporations limit competition, they simply disagree on howcompetition should be protected. Liberals believe necessities should be state runlimiting competition to desires, where as conservatives believe it should be a collection of small businesses which actively compete against one another for your business. I say most because then you have your far left and far right wackos who want to live under either state run tyranny or economic tyranny.
When you get over the watch words and the mudslinging and actually think about what's being said and what is implied you realize that most Americans, regardless of who they affiliate themselves with agree on the same goal, they just disagree on the means to get there. Big Business is just as dangerous as Big Government and as soon as we stop allowing the agents of both to frame the argument we'll be able to move forward and find the balance, which they're both afraid of.
As to quality firearms going to every household, why not? The Swiss government provides a rifle to every military aged male to be called to service in defense of the nation and is the perfect example of an armed polite society. Any "citizen" who would refuse to defend this nation, it's consitution, and the principles it was founded on should be stripped of their citizenship and sent about their way.
