Made in USA

I know the difference.  I lived in Germany.  I saw the poverty and beggars there.  I saw how the government, unless you belong to a wealthy and powerful family chooses the education and career for your child.  They wanted to direct where my own child would go to school.  Fortunately, I was able to put him in an international school, which had several German kids from wealthy families.  

Every system has its flaws.  The US doesn’t have a perfect record but is still the best government in the world.

we must have been in different Germanies then

War against increasing the minimum wage! Who benefits from that?

avg family in usa is 3 persons nat’l min wage is $9.50. 40 hr week, that’s $18k for family of 3. IF minimum wage was increased ALL THE WAY UP to $15., that’s $31k avg income in america is just below $75k.

We benefit from the rich?

"Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Around 1999 I was working at a plant in a former communist country.  One of the associates was talking to me and commented that he missed communism.  He preferred communism over capitalism.  I was surprised by that and asked him why.  I know materially, he was better off than before.  He said he preferred the comfort and security of someone else telling him what to do.  He didn’t like having to make important decisions for himself.

Perhaps some of you prefer the comfort of someone else making your important decisions for you.  Not an unreasonable desire.  We often times hold off making decisions until the opportunity is gone.

Read your books.  I’ve been in 42 countries.  Every one of them have their rich and their poor.  I’ve seen hard work rewarded and celebrated and I have seen the awful scourge of the exploitation of people.  Money is not the answer to everything.  People respecting each other and treating each other fairly would solve a lot of problems.  It can start right here on these forums.

Communism was terrible. Almost more surreal than Trump. People who want communism back are the lazy, corrupt ones who prefer to get rich by backstabbing others and assisting to a corrupt system. I always stood up against it and I was always punished for it, some of my relatives went to jail.