Politics

On the question of problems within the US

It is true that within the US there has been and continues to be many social rifts, racism and other impediments.

In every instance it stems from the lingering statist and catholic theology and Marxist thought which bubbles up from time to time throughout our history However, no matter how wrong in the past America was, the trend was always toward more liberty and the though process and system of change was in place, to effect a better country

But the evils of slavery prior to 1865 I snot what made America powerful and rich, because if slavery did this than Brazil would be just as rich as us. And most of the rest of the world would have wealth too , because of the slavery that exists there.

It is an insufficient defense of current policies in the rest of the world to say, "well, America has problems, why talk to us?"

Never, not even in the deepest days of slavery were people wholesale slaughtered because of race, ethnicity, language religion or any other real or perceived difference. In America as is taking place today across the planet.

Not only were we wrong, at the time, but it took 4 ½ years of violence to have the problem solved. The Yankee belief in individual rights and responsibilities won out over the paternal hierarchical statist beliefs of the south.

Even though it took another 100 years to get anything really right, we have shown that not only is it possible, but that it is the inexorable tread of mankind to seek more liberty and more equality before the law. It took the changing of a lot of attitudes amongst Americans -- but the changes occurred because the system was set up to demand accommodation. In other countries the system is set up to keep people repressed. If humans are capable of anything it is learning by example And we have already provided the bets example possible

Our murder rate is because of the incredible mix of cultures and races, some of whom bring their hatreds.

It is the result of the fact that the gene base of the American people is from the criminal, crazy, lunatic, violent, nonconformists, revolutionaries, contrarians and others who did not fit into the conformist cultures of the rest of the world.

Japan in particular has been adept at keeping all non-Japanese out of Japan. And it has created a culture of acquiescence to authority. On the other hand the Japan of pre-WWII was an net exporter of violence and pain and death and mayhem and murder.

Even the poorest American has more than the middle class of most countries. To decry poverty in the US is to deny the far deeper and more vast poverty in the rest of the world. Also the poorest American is entitled to the same rights and responsibilities as anyone else and can in many circumstances move ahead in the world.

In most of the rest of the world moving anyone out of poverty is impossible because the governments are actively engaged in the prevention of wealth.

On the question of what we did to Mexico.

The Spanish speaking, white looking Mexicans stole the country from the natives there and so have no big claim against us for taking what wasn't theirs in the first place. Plus, the people who wound up living in the parts of the Southwest America that used to be part of Mexico are far better off than those who got stuck in the disaster that is Mexico. That is best exampled by the millions of Mexicans who rush to the United States to get away from their own statist corrupt hell of government.

Craven hypocrisy in the pursuit of the immediate dollar, even though big multinational corps are making some money in places like South America and Asia and the middle east they could make far more money if these places operated more like the US.

Thus it is in the long term interest of these companies to help foster American style commerce and civil society.

Due to constant flux, especially in tax laws, and added regulations, business developed a short term mentality within the US

And due to corruption and the most absurd laws the US corporation has developed a mercenary view of these people.

However, the sneaker producer in Vietnam is better off at a dollar a day from Nike than he is at a dollar a week from the Vietnamese government enterprise. It is funny that the only people complaining about US corporate factories in poor countries are rich limousine liberals in the US who gave not one wit of interest to these poor countries prior to the arrival of the multinational. Where was the Japanese or European governments in the development of poor countries? No where. They were waiting for the US military to make enough of a presence to ensure peace and they were waiting for the countries themselves to enact laws and rules more in line with the US. And only then did they step in.

TAXES:

Due to the complexity everyone has developed a search for shenanigans with taxes, simplify taxes -- increase profits and add back long term thinking.