WHY DOES THE US BELIEVE IN EQUAL POLITICAL RIGHTS BUT UNEQUAL RIGHTS TO WEALTH AND PROPERTY?

Absolutely not! My husband and I have worked hard for what we have. Why should we give anything to some lazy slob who is perfectly able-bodied, but does nothing to take care of themselves?

I hate how so much power is in the hands of a select few and how the select few often exploit the poor. However, I also believe that there should be opportunities for people to make their way in society and earn wealth and property.

This economic system does not work, The name for this system is COMMUNISM. In this system the rights of those who work hard and take risks are abridged so that those who do not work hard can get a share. This leads to no one working hard or taking any risks. The government then has to try and force people to work and that leads to the further abridging of rights. In the end you end up with none of what you want neither the right to vote or to free speech and to nothing but poverty for all.

Countries that do not recognize property rights, do not recognize political rights.

There is no ‘right’ to wealth and monopoly.
When the balance of rich and poor get too far out of whack, with the rich being arrogant and unthinking of the poor, things happen, revolutions, party changes, unionizing, more supervision of how and where those profits are spent.
This doesn’t happen without some strife, as people with nothing to lose behave in ways that are frequently violent.
When it goes too far the other way, as in Socialist or Communist societies, people, feel entitled and unrewarded and don’t contribute in a way that grows the economy, this usually ends as it did in the USSR, too many people, not enough workers.
A balance is needed and it only seems to find itself one for a brief period before it swings too far again.
But again, wealth and property are not a right.

Whooo! You would have made out very well in the USSR and would be a model citizen of China.

In our country, everyone has the opportunity to be successful…..Most, however, don’t want to work for it.

40,000,000 American teenagers drop out of school every year or have been graduated with less than Level 3 skills. Level 3 is the bare minimum required to hold a job. They hit the streets with no education, no skills, unable to read, write or carry on an intelligent conversation.

These people are losers and always will be. It is not the rich mans duty to support them.

We are a capitalist nation…the purpose of hard work and high production is profit.

We believe in equitable distribution of wealth, not equal distribution. Equal distribution means that every one gets the same wealth, regardless of how much they contribute to society. That’s Communism, and it doesn’t work because it removes the incentive to work.

Equitable distrbution of wealth means that the more you contribute, the more you are rewarded. That’s Capitalism, and it does work to an extent, but monopolies are a threat to Capitalism, which is why we have Anti-Trust laws. Unfortunately, for the past seven years, the party in power has been under the control of large corporations. This has resulted in more monopolistic practices, and hopefully, now that things are swinging back towards the center, we’ll see some action taken to protect our economic system.