Is Amway a scam?

Please give informative reasoning, not: you're stupid, no you're stupid, and please do not downgrade someone's opinion, unless they are rude, vulgar, insultive... the beauty of living in the country we do is that we are allowed to have opinions 

"Property is theft" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"The downfall and death of societies are due to the power of accumulation possessed by property" -Pierre-Joeseph Proudhon

Should Water Supplies be Privitized?

http://www.examiner.com/article/former-nestle-ceo-water-should-be-privatized-it-s-not-a-right "On April 20 Americans Against the Tea Party shared a video of the former CEO of Nestle, coincidentally also the largest seller of bottled water in the world, where he says that he feels that water is not a right and it should be privatized and sold. In the way that he describes it, he also wants to ration water so that people will get their basic human right which he has allotted as five liters for daily hydration, and 25 liters for minimum hygiene"  

Is Basic Income a Human Right??

  Throughout the years, income inequality has increased quite a bit. It cannot be denied that we are swimming in capital, so should everyone be insured a basic security??    

Privitization Poses a Major Threat to Progress?

"Privatization does not mean you take a public institution and give it to some nice person. It means you take a public institution and give it to an unaccountable tyranny. Public institutions have many side benefits. For one thing they may purposely run at a loss. They're not out for profit. They may purposely run at a loss because of the side benefits. So, for example if a public steel industry runs at a loss it's providing cheap steel to other industries. Maybe that's a good thing. Public institutions can have a counter cyclic property. So that means that they can maintain employment in periods of recession, which increases demand, which helps you to get out of recession. Private companies can't do that in a recession. Throw out the work force because that's the way you make money."-- Noam Chomsky, from the film "The Corporation"

Some Corporations are More Powerful Than Countries?

http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=4268 http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html   Walmart gives jobs to only about 2.2 million people, and yet their net profits are more than the GDP of Venezuelia!

Did Obama really say successful people didn't do it on their own?

So, our current president gives aspeech yesterday saying if you created a business, you didn't do it on your own.  While I believe he meant you did it on your own, but there were likely other things that made it possible for you to be successful! It did not come across that way.  So now I am pissed!  Here is an excerpt from his speech to,give you context.  As a business owner, should I be pissed or just let it slide?   PRESIDENT OBAMA: And, you know, there are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me. Because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t – look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be just because I was so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something. There are a whole bunch of hard working people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

Money vs. Labor Credits

With the gold standard currency, the currency is basicly valued by gold and the United States used this up untill the 1970's. This system is like what we use now in a way.   However, labor credits are more interesting... Say you work for 8 hours. You get 8 labor credits. You buy a chair that took someone 2 hours to make, it costs two labor credits. It is a bit more complex than this but it is a different way to give money value other than gold or just giving it value like we do today...

28 Trillion in Offshore Accounts... What is to be done?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/offshore-tax-havens/

Should the minimum wage be abolished?

Do you think the penny is relevant anymore?

McDonalds had a deal last night. Buy a Big Mac buy another for just a PENNY!

Guns or Butter?

Can trickle-down economics work?

Trickle-down economics hasn't worked in the U.S. so far. Is that because we just haven't gotten it right yet, or is the concept fundamentally flawed?

Is credit a good thing?

Capitalism is on the Way Out?!

In leiu of recent events such as the '08 collapse and rampant un-employment, are the days left for Capitalism numberd?

Are we being over worked?

Do you think the populace of your country are being worked too much fro the pay they recieve, substantial or not? Or do you believe that the load is either just enough or actually lacking?

Should smoking be banned?

Smoking could be argued to be counter-productive, harmful to others (second hand smoking) and shorten one's life... but it is done out of choice. Should it be allowed or should it be banned?

Right to work...Right or Wrong?

Are you for or against the rght to work movement in Michigan? http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/11/news/economy/michigan-right-to-work-vote/   Cartoon from Henry Payne's website http://www.henrypayne.com/index.php/2012/12/editorial-cartoon-grinch-right-to-work

Corporate CEOs of Successful Corporations Should Be Paid Less

Should CEO's be paid 10$ an hour or 10$ a minute? An avarage Wal-Mart CEO makes 35 million a year.

Pre-employment Drug Testing

Should employers drug test potential employees before hiring?

Corporations do More Harm to Society Than Good.

When I say corporation, I mean large corporations like the banks, and investment firms. I'm not talking about the ole' Maw and Paw bakery down the street.

Keynesian vs Austrian Economics

This Debate is one between the two most prominent economic theories: Modern Keynesian Economics and Austrian Bisuness Cycle Theory. **NOTE** Arguments should presented in the affirmative of either side should be chararcteristics that are universally accepeted as characteristics of that argument. The same applies to rebuttals (no straw man arguments).  I realize that there is a sligt overalp between the two theories; however, they are two very distinct philosophies.

The Gold Standard. For or Against?

Self-expanatory...   And if one of those annoying, whiny, hormonal, teenage girls comments on this debate about how much of dick "Lucas" is, I will go ape shit. ;) I put the smiley at the end so that in court I can claim it was a joke, and I had not premediated harming young children....I'll put another just to be safe.... ;)

Is another Great Depression on the way?

Every time I hear about the next Great Depression, I'm always torn. Of course, any one doomsday theory is probably wrong. On the other hand, the U.S. keeps printing and spending money like it's going out of style, and that eventually has to catch up with us. Do you think there will be a true financial meltdown in the next few years?