Christians are not required to give money to anyone for any reason.As far as I know Christians must pay 10% of their income to the church
It doesn't matter because making a charitable donation is not a financial system and it is not a form of government.
2008?You cannot deny the adverse role capitalism played in leading the world to the global financial crisis in 2008
Oh, I remember that year. I was at sea for 297 days because some group of religious extremists were threatening Isreal and a country full of communists was threatening Japan. The condition of the world economy was not a big issue that year, international conflict was, at least for the countries who were being threatened.
That was the year that Japan quit protesting nuclear power, specifically the retirement of the USS kittyhawk and the arrival of a nuclear-powered carrier, the USS George Washington. They quit protesting because their problems were not ideological or financial, they were having ballistic missiles fired at them by North Korea.
So, no. I don't remember an ecomomic crisis in 2008. I remember helping to protect the citizens of a foreign country from having to go to war.
I do, however, recognize that most of the world is not as financially stable as the US. Is that the fault of capitalism?
That there are greedy people living within the system?
Nope, greed existed long before capitalism. It exists in every culture and within every financial system, even yours. It is not a contradiction of the philosophy of any system, it is an unfortunate quality of human society.
There will be greed and envy and hate.
Stop blaming your supposed problems on a foreign country's financial system.
Just because there are poor people does not mean that capitalism made them poor. Each country is entitled to their own financial system and governing philosophy, if America's system were so terrible, no other country would have invested in it.
It is because American capitalism works so well that foreign countries have adopted it's ideas and invested in our stockmarket.
What?So , we could simply elicit why the pioneers of the capitalist system themselves are the ones who are demanding the replacement of the capitalist system with more equitable system for all mankind.
The United States, as a nation, will remain capitalist. Our system has worked for a while and it has worked better than any other idea.
I don't know if you realize this, but there have been people living in poverty since the beginning of time.
There is nothing inherently malicious in the capitalist system as it stands today. The rules have been refined and the methods modified to allow individuals to succeed or fail based on their own abilities without having to step on others or depend on handouts to get there.
Name one other system which works that way.
Seriously, one.
Wrong.Capitalism mainly based on exploitation
Capitalism is based completely on providing a satisfactory product or service for a reasonable price.
Don't spout ignorant garbage as if it's truth, you arrogant ass.
That's called oppression.the exploitation and control of a class or elite for the capabilities of communities as a whole.
What you're trying to state is that the united states is a tyrannical oppressor of the innocent masses.
You're a douchebag.
I don't even need to point out specific occasions or philosophies this country is based on to disprove that.
But I'm going to anyway.
The Gulf War,
World War 2,
My 10 months at sea in 2008.
The purpose of all these military actions was to protect the citizens from tyrannical dictators' spreading oppression into nearby nations.
If we were so invested in preventing the oppression of foreign citizens and defended them with american lives...
Why would it make sense that we are trying to take advantage of those same people we died to defend?
It's not about control, you moron. The point is that each individual should be allowed basic human rights to live without fear, to keep what they earn and to work toward their goals.
So now we hear the root of your arguement.they rather require just distribution of wealth between nations and individuals
You want all nations and individuals to split the money evenly.
How is that noble?
You want to piggy-back of my sacrifices and hard work so you can have the same things I have?
I earned my pay a thousand times over and never once stepped on anyone else in order to do it.
But that's what it comes down to,
You don't think it's fair that I was afforded the oportunity to earn my pay, keep what I earned and use it to buy the things I want.
That is truely unfair.
You SHOULD have the oportunity to do as I did.
It is unfair that you do not feel like you have the option to serve your country and know that you are making a positive impact in the lives of foreign citizens as well as your own countrymen.
It is unfair that you feel as though you are unable to work at your highest potential and enjoy the reward for a job well done.
All of that is truely unfair.
But it is not the United States which put you in that position.
If it were possible for me to make it so, every individual on the planet would have the same oportunities we have in this country.
But I can't change your social structure or economic system.
Redistributing our wealth throughout the world would put a lot of money in other's pockets. That's true.
But Americans would continue manufacturing, engineering and inventing and foreign countries would continue importing, learning and buying.
The money would end up back in this country anyway because we build the technology and develop techniques.
Remember, the US is a very young country with a very young financial philosophy. We are not an important figure in the global scale by default. There is nothing we had 200 years ago that any other country couldn't have had.
Your problem is, you're waiting for everyone else to start being fair and to start doing the right thing.
Start being fair yourself. Start doing the right thing on your own.
That's how I did it.
That's how my family does it.
That's how it is supposed to be done.
There are plenty of excuses, but none of them make a difference.
Make a real difference, stop making excuses.
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