Posted by
tblount on Monday, December 28, 2009 9:46:08 AM
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
Laws and locks are only needed for an immoral society.
There are three major components of every society, citizens, government and
commerce, and when morality fails all three areas must be regulated. Without
a self-correcting mechanism the republic will fail.
The commerce system fails because greed for profit drives business to take
unfair advantage of consumers, especially in industries connected with essential
goods and services - such as health, energy and banking.
The solution is the establishment and enforcement of antitrust laws by the
government to regulate profit margins of essential goods and services and
protect consumers.
The government fails because elected officials become corrupt by bribes and
kickbacks and use their power to unfairly tax citizens and over regulated
industries forcing them to pass on costs to citizens.
The solution is to give regulatory, veto power to an independent accounting firm
like the IRS to stop checks before they are written and to insure tax payer's
money is efficiently and justly used.
Citizens adds to the decline of the nation because they fail to vote
patriotically with their dollars and purchase foreign goods, driving the nation
into debt.
The solution is to levy tariffs on foreign goods so that domestic industries can
compete. Free trade has to be fair trade, trade neutrality with other nations.