I was raised Pentecostal so I have friends who will never accept it. That’s okay too as I understand where they’re coming from. Still, I think that what some folks religious views are shouldn’t affect what governs our country.

I appreciate your open mind.

As far as making it work; your system has been implemented into our economy for over thirty years now and it has never worked. An economic system that will work is when you have a real ownership society. I don’t mean like George W. Bush suggested where people buy things they can’t afford but about businesses that are owned by its workers so that everyone has a stake in the prosperity of the business and not just a few. Of course, how much of a stake in the business depends on how much investment a worker puts in or has put in. If someone works for twenty years for a company, he should be able to leave with more than just a watch or sometimes even less.

If more businesses were encouraged to give their employees a small percentage of the business instead of just a wage, then you’d also have employees more interested in that business prospering.

The system we have now in place has government trying to enforce a fair wage through the minimum wage and the minimum wage is anything but fair. Workers are taken advantage of; they work for several years and sometimes when they near retirement they’re laid off and they lose everything. An ownership economic system would guarantee the worker a better chance at having a say so in what they make.

Of course, there’s a lot of things that would need to be worked out but there are some excellent business models that exist today.

You need to stop making up things I say; such as government controlling society; government already controls society too much but it’s in favor of the rich, not regular people. And what destroys the work ethic is when people work their whole lives and end up with nothing. As far as the government having money; government should only have enough money to operate itself as far as the things we want it to do. What we want it to do is regulate so that no one is taking advantage of others.

Thanks for the compliment. Sometimes I also get highly emotional but when someone starts quoting me the Bible, I’m well prepared and I know what it says.

Thanks

This seems to be a circular thing for us
Dogs chasing tails,
Whereas your points are emotional, about making it equal, fair, and that’s totally understandable, but I am talking about making it work.
I’d rather live in a stable economic situation, where I pay myself for all the things that you think would make it fair, so I am promoting someone else’s business and livelihood.
In a crowd, I’d be booed off the stage, of course, and you’d not, because you are only playing to emotion of seeming to care for the people, when it is only superficial. Liberals never consider unintended consequences. Mostly, in these situations, for government to provide a lot, it destroys the work ethic when you get stuff for nothing. It damages the economy, because people spend their money more judiciously than the government does. Only individuals spend money carefully. Super-rich people mostly invest their money, so it is being used productively. There is no evidence that government control of society does any good, it just damages it.
I’d much rather live in an economy that rewarded talent and hard work, where I can benefit from my effort, than watch other people get the same for doing nothing.
It sounds like you think half the country should live off the other half.