Get Educated: It's time for all Americans to understand this economy and protect their money!

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Get Educated: It's time for all Americans to understand this economy and protect their money!

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Economically speaking all Americans fit into four buckets. People are either in business, in the labor force, in prison, or in some form of welfare or entitlement system. It is in the nation’s best interest to minimize the population in the latter two buckets because those in prison or welfare are not only failing to add to the economy but actually weigh it down with a heavy burden. We may not like to think of unemployment insurance, Medicare and Social Security as welfare, because while working we pay into these, but really, we call these deductions “payroll taxes” for a reason because in the end it still comes down to tax dollars paying for stuff that the individual can’t pay for at the time. Yet, with all of the discussion of taxes, deficits, the state and direction of the economy, so very little attention is ever given to this fundamental problem of the attrition of the productive population while the unproductive population is growing rapidly. The practice of cannibal capitalism, which pours people from the additive buckets into the deductive ones, is allowed to continue completely unabated while fiscal discussions rise and set with strategies to further burden the labor force with the weight of welfare for the rich and poor alike.

Our nation jails twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners although we represent only five percent of the population. The millions of able bodied men in prison and the millions more who are unemployed are not contributing to the economy. That problem belongs to all of us and yet we are doing more to accelerate that problem than address it. It is not a comfortable conversation but one should ask why we lead the world at producing convicts. At what point would a decent person, one who would like to positively contribute to the economy, resort to crime perhaps even violence to feed his family? People are regarded as heroes when they fight and even kill to protect their country. At what point, would a man feel so cornered by his exclusion from the economy that he would feel a duty to fight or even kill to protect his family from deprivation?

There has been a lot of talk about changing the social contract or compact. Some, including the President, would say that certain policy proposals are attempts to renege on this agreement. What is the social compact? According to Thomas Hobbes, a man considered to be one of the fathers of Western political philosophy, in the absence of political authority we would live in a state of nature, where each person would have unlimited natural freedoms, including the freedom to harm all who threaten his self-preservation leaving us in a state of bellum omnium contra omnes (“war of all against all”). To avoid this, we have attempted to develop civil society through a “social contract” in which we each supposedly gain civil rights in return for subjecting ourselves to civil law. But, when “civil society” fails to serve fundamental needs and actually works against the personal interest of people, a person may justly feel that subjection to the laws of such a system is a losing proposition. Our messy history is replete with painful and often violent adjustments to the social contract.

In the twentieth century, though, this country arrived at a proposition where concessions were made to both rich and poor alike in order to pacify and grow the middle. The deal was basically this: the rich can amass whatever wealth they can so long as others also can have the prospect to grow rich, the labor force in general can live a comfortable life, and the poor aren’t completely destitute. The civil rights movement was really just a campaign to get the excluded minorities, especially African Americans, in on this deal.

Now, it does appear that some want to renege on that deal as conditions, costs and opportunities have changed. Conditions? The rising cost of living amid stagnant wages for the middle-class has forced families to depend on multiple incomes to have that “comfortable life” while our latchkey children are left to fend for themselves and it still feels like we are falling behind. Costs? The threat of more and more of the baby boomers living longer and drawing Social Security, while healthcare costs rise out of control leave many convinced that entitlements will bankrupt the nation. Opportunities? Businesses just don’t need most of us as much as they did in the past. Globalization has permitted businesses to resource their enterprises with the cheapest labor in the world reducing their dependence and thus their concern for the plight of the domestic labor force.

Nevertheless, if you renege on the deal that has given you a “civil society,” how long can you really expect things to remain civil? The only hope, if there is one at all, is to push more people into the productive buckets. Subsidizing the living standard of labor force and the creation of new business is the only way to stop the cannibalization and really improve the fiscal state of this country.

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