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In a 2015 interview, Bernie Sanders strongly rejected open borders, calling it “a right-wing proposal” that would harm American workers. He argued it would drive down wages and undermine the concept of a nation-state, warning it would “make everybody in America poorer.” Sanders emphasized creating jobs for unemployed youth—especially among minority communities—rather than importing low-wage labor.
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FTM, That’s a pretty Zio-Satanic POV, don’t ya think? What did that guy say about what a rich person must do to qualify for entrance to heaven? As long as your kid has everything he needs (but certainly not everything they WANT without working), we should be good.
We can EASILY make sure everyone has enough to meet their needs, but it would require circulating wealth and most people are brainwashed into considering that an evil idea; here’s why it isn’t evil:
As Tom Paine argued in his “Agrarian Justice” plan, “Civilization…has operated [in] two ways to make one part of society more affluent, and the other more wretched, than would have been the lot of either in a natural state…The thing, therefore, now to be done is to remedy the evils and preserve the benefits that have arisen to society by passing
from the natural to that which is called the civilized state.
In taking the matter upon this ground, the first principle of civili-
zation ought to have been, and ought still to be, that the condition of every person born into the world, after a state of civilization commences, ought not to be worse than if he had been born before that period. But the fact is, that the condition of millions, in every country…is far worse than if they had been born before
civilization began…It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race…[A]s it is impossible to separate the improvement made by cultivation from the earth itself, upon which that improvement is made, the idea of landed property arose from that inseparable connection; but it is nevertheless true, that it is the value of the improvement only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of
FTM, That’s a pretty Zio-Satanic POV, don’t ya think? What did that guy say about what a rich person must do to qualify for entrance to heaven? As long as your kid has everything he needs (but certainly not everything they WANT without working), we should be good.
We can EASILY make sure everyone has enough to meet their needs, but it would require circulating wealth and most people are brainwashed into considering that an evil idea; here’s why it isn’t evil:
As Tom Paine argued in his “Agrarian Justice” plan, “Civilization…has operated [in] two ways to make one part of society more affluent, and the other more wretched, than would have been the lot of either in a natural state…The thing, therefore, now to be done is to remedy the evils and preserve the benefits that have arisen to society by passing
from the natural to that which is called the civilized state.
In taking the matter upon this ground, the first principle of civili-
zation ought to have been, and ought still to be, that the condition of every person born into the world, after a state of civilization commences, ought not to be worse than if he had been born before that period. But the fact is, that the condition of millions, in every country…is far worse than if they had been born before
civilization began…It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race…[A]s it is impossible to separate the improvement made by cultivation from the earth itself, upon which that improvement is made, the idea of landed property arose from that inseparable connection; but it is nevertheless true, that it is the value of the improvement only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated land, owes to the community a groundrent (for I know of no better term to express the idea) for the land which he holds; and it is from this groundrent that the fund proposed in this plan is to issue.”
Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention…But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.
In advocating the case of the persons thus dispossessed, it is a right, and not a charity, that I am pleading for. But it is that kind of right which, being neglected at first, could not be brought forward afterwards till heaven had opened the way by a revolution in the system of government. Let us then do honor to revolutions by justice, and give currency to their principles by blessings.”
Paine created the plan possible given the lack of technology that he had to work with (his plan was funded by taking a percentage of the land value whenever a landowner died), but, to my mind, it needed some improvement and updating:
First, as “decider, defender and enforcer of property rights”, the government of any given domain is the DE FACTO actual owner of all property within it’s defendable domain (in other words, whatever you can’t actually personally defend, you don’t actually personally own, a state of affairs lately put right in our collective faces). So we don’t have to wait for landowners to croak anymore. And due to the existence in these United States of something called “the 5th Amendment”, the U.S. Federal government does in fact owe equal compensation to every U.S. citizen for its TAKING of every citizen’s right of free access to land to support their “inalienable Right to Life”. I’ve explained how to create funding for the compensation many times in these pages, also found on my “archived by the Library of Congress 2010 Congressional campaign website” at:
https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101202174641/http://www.alanforcongress.com/home
It’s much more basic than that Bernie. Show me a father who would share his own children’s substance and sustenance with every kid in the neighborhood and I will show you a fool who loves not his own flesh.
Alan, thank you for your thoughtful exhortation, but I already agree we have a duty to our neighbor who also has the same duty to us.
Sorry you missed my point being the evil of robbing our nations youth to give to the progeny of another nation or in simpler terms robbing one’s own household to subsidize a failed houshold.
The problem with leveling schemes is they are almost always unbalanced and because of the inbalance they have to use force to achieve their noble objectives. Collectives are fine when they are voluntary. Forced compassion is no compassion at all. At best it’s a tax, at worst robbery.
Personally I would not recommend idealist Thomas Payne as a teacher, though I do enjoy some of his views, because his solutions are often hanging on humanistic sky hooks. In real life they don’t always work as expected if at all.
Before the SCOTUS permently removed the Decalogue from our nations government regulated schools, adult Americans knew the difference between charity and taxation. Before liberal scholarship changed the language of scriptures readers knew that loving your neighbor as yourself meant charity, not schmooze. When the courts ripped the Decalogue off school walls, they ripped charity, justice and mercy out of the children’s moral rudders. Worse, they ripped community out of their minds, community with agreed upon rules which prevented a polyglot of values producing a tidalwave of confusion that collectivists now seek to replace with more governmental taxation and forced co-operation.
I speak of some considerable experince having been here since before the USG stripped out our national house rules. The result has been we can’t seem to find enough lawyers, law enforcement, jurists, penal facilities, mental health, social workers and money to mend broken lives, while greedy investment bankers run hog wild skimming off billions of dollars of other peoples profits through immoral devices left open to them by poorly educated legislators. Paine isn’t going to fix this. Neither will involuntary collectivism.
I get your point on land use too. My childhood heaven, home, land and neighborhood was bought up, leveled and over a half century ruined with endless corn crops through the use of chemicals squeezing every last ounce of life out of the soils by absentee American corporate investment owners. Today we see absentee foriegn investment owners while law makers dither.
You are right to notice Bernies hypocrisy, so did I.
The ROT these khazarians bring to society is disgustingly blatant and needs immediate attention. How can these fakes show their face in public? They have no souls….they are ghouls.
I swore that I would not comment for awhile. Ok. Last one today. What the hell is Bernie talking about? Just try parsing it.
I have said this for 20 years. Make everyone equal in the economy so you get paid the same as someone in Vietnam or India sewing clothing, Not my thought process, but global elite. What is the definition of a serf or slave?