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Prosper

(761 posts)
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 01:48 PM Aug 2019

Prosperity comes from spending money.

Money has to be spent into the economy to have prosperity. Probably half the people spend every cent they get their hands on. They are the heart of an economy. Getting into the upper 25% they spend a small portion of their discretionary income. Get to top 5 percenters and up and they spend a negligible amount of money into the goods and services economy. Bad citizens not concerned about the national interest or spreading prosperity. Money was crated to facilitate goods and services. Money taken out of the economy and put into trusts or used as security to give value to worthless paper is lazy deadbeat freeloading money. Laws like the Glass Steagall Act of 1932 need to be reinstated. Monetary Control and policy are needed to insure that money is used only to trade in Goods and Services. If a person has everything they want and need and they don't want to invest in jobs producing businesses or buy real estate but they buy some false futures or put their money into trusts then all non working money should be subjected to a 75% luxury tax. Preventing growth is against the national interest. It is no different than living at the head of a river valley and damning the river creating huge beautiful lakes. Starving the people down river denying them water. The government should issue those people bonds for their stagnant money and spend the money back into the economy. The top percenters remind me of Scrooge McDuck. Scrooge used to (Probably still does) sit on mountains of money in his vaults admiring and loving his stagnant non working mountains of money. Humanitarian law says Scrooge was guilty of preventing prosperity. That applies most certainly to third world billionaires. They use credits and special dispensations to abuse the environment and economies to amass billions of dollars. Just as wrong as making millions of dollars working to eradicate poverty. Wrong wrong !!!! Money needs to be spent?!?!?!

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SWBTATTReg

(22,124 posts)
3. Good suggestion. I see texts like this (wall paper basically), my eyes go numb, and I pass over ...
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 04:52 PM
Aug 2019

the article and go to the next article.

tblue37

(65,357 posts)
2. Breaking that block of text into paragraphs would make it readable. Online reading really
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 01:53 PM
Aug 2019

is hard with large stretches of unbroken text. See how much easier this is to read?

Money has to be spent into the economy to have prosperity. Probably half the people spend every cent they get their hands on. They are the heart of an economy. Getting into the upper 25% they spend a small portion of their discretionary income. Get to top 5 percenters and up and they spend a negligible amount of money into the goods and services economy. Bad citizens not concerned about the national interest or spreading prosperity.

Money was crated to facilitate goods and services. Money taken out of the economy and put into trusts or used as security to give value to worthless paper is lazy deadbeat freeloading money.

Laws like the Glass Steagall Act of 1932 need to be reinstated. Monetary Control and policy are needed to insure that money is used only to trade in Goods and Services. If a person has everything they want and need and they don't want to invest in jobs producing businesses or buy real estate but they buy some false futures or put their money into trusts then all non working money should be subjected to a 75% luxury tax.

Preventing growth is against the national interest. It is no different than living at the head of a river valley and damning the river creating huge beautiful lakes. Starving the people down river denying them water. The government should issue those people bonds for their stagnant money and spend the money back into the economy.

The top percenters remind me of Scrooge McDuck. Scrooge used to (Probably still does) sit on mountains of money in his vaults admiring and loving his stagnant non working mountains of money. Humanitarian law says Scrooge was guilty of preventing prosperity. That applies most certainly to third world billionaires. They use credits and special dispensations to abuse the environment and economies to amass billions of dollars. Just as wrong as making millions of dollars working to eradicate poverty. Wrong wrong !!!! Money needs to be spent?!?!?!

Prosper

(761 posts)
4. Thanks and noted.
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 06:55 PM
Aug 2019

I wrote that on my phone and didn’t see how long it was until posted. Besides structure I need to watch content. I tend to morph wandering thoughts into a rant. Thanks again for the time and consideration to review and comment.

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