[NelsonN]

Originally Posted by Suki

To you it is all about human nature. So was slavery, and child labor and so on at some time. Doesn't make it right then, and it certainly doesn't make it right now. To me and any socialist worth their salt, capitalism is about and will always be about,the relationship one has between owners and non-owners, the relationship between the upper and ruling classes and the non-ruling classes and how the negotiate power relationships in history.

And who exactly is this ruling class? Let me see... it can't be the founders of Yahoo! or Google, even though they are now worth billions. And they are worth billions because they live in a free capitalistic society. So who is this ruling class?

Originally Posted by Suki

The banks are predatory lifesucking vampires of the worst kind. And to think they should be paid back by consumers is heresy for me. Lol.

Not all banks work in this fashion. I don't keep my money in the local banking system on the island. My bank has never charged me a dime for keeping my money. I get all the services free and sometimes my bank account goes down to zero. Try that with local banks.

There is a saying that life belongs to the slick. Many people are naive, here and in the states, and this is why Washington DC has stopped working for us.

If everyone did what I did, the banking system would change, because the banks following the current system would have to change in order to keep their customers. But as I have said, and I hope you get where I am going, people are naive, they are complacent and the politicians, as well as Wall Street, know this.

So... I don't worry about the banks charging me for keeping my money and I don't have to worry about many things that people do because I know there is a solution out there; all it takes is for me to take action.

I have passive income as well as earned income and the future looks even better. Why would I want a socialist agenda telling me where I should work and how much I am worth? Because my neighbor has dog-crap for brains?

People do have the power, you can vote. The first thing is to find out who your senator and representatives are. Find out what they are doing, and not doing, for you. Vote them out and send them a message. This isn't so hard. Candidates need a lot of money because they know that the couch potatoes are easily swayed by 3-second sound bites.

If people stopped paying attention to sound bites and looked up the records of the individuals they are voting into power, things would change very quickly. I believe the power is in the hands of the citizens.

The reason we don't have a better health care system is because... you are going to love this... people keep voting for the same individuals who keep voting it down! So why all the complaints? It is you, people, who are the problem!

For a second there I actually thought Joe Lieberman was going to be sent packing, yet here he is, won as an independent, after rightly losing the democratic candidacy for the senate, and now is running for president.

Waking up in the morning and doing the same thing you always do? Then don't expect to get rich anytime soon. Vote for the same crap, expect the same crap.

I have made plenty of mistakes in my past and I am still rectifying some of those mistakes. I used to blame the system for them. Now I blame my fellow, naive, complacent citizen.