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It's demonstratively sustainable, one just needs to have the vision to see the next market. There's always a new market.

The world getting some how exhausted?!? Hardly. The Almighty promised Noah that never again would He strike the Earth nor destroy all living things for the sake of humanity. If it be the End of Times, all the better.

you apparently do not know your Constitution very well ... in article 4.5 it says "Capitalism is the sole economic model allowed in the US even if it feeds on itself and destroys the very thing that created it" ... this is well known among conservatives

rporter,

It would seem to me that Capitalism means individual economic actions outside of sending our tax money to D.C. Capitalism worked in America for years, until our government itself set impossible laws on all of us. It is the government who sets the wages for our Corporations. Many Americans in my age group, paid little attention to the FDA who realized the crap Gerber's puts in its baby food has too much sugar and processed flour.

I remember when fluoride was put in the water in Los Angeles County. Several of us ran this through a lab at UCLA and the water system had plenty of fluoride naturally. It was the first letter writing I ever got involved in and it worked. I also fed my kids fresh food processed in a blender.

This trusting Big Daddy to think and act for us, is exactly what is wrong in America. My point is that the government will think and act for all of us and it is time we took the responsibility back. This was the attitude of the original Conservative movement I firmly believe that had we taken up Capitalism under Senator Goldwater, we all would be financially strong. Morally we would remain independent from Big Daddy.

I lived outside the Big Daddy handouts and even sent my kids to a private school I was shocked to learn that this Christian school overlooked the moral values of individuals. Prayer came before thinking first ignoring any action right or wrong.

My kids did not buy into praying before analyzing the problem. To buy it would be a sell out of our individuality.

I want no help from the federal government. There is a shadow of Capitalism around at thie time. Many of the concepts of tea party ring true but they do not know how dumbed down our last two generations of kids have turned out. The kids go to school and learn how to beg for money from D.C. We cannot slam the door on these kids so we have had to water down our Capitalism and bring in socialism to keep them alive.

The current mode of Capitalism rides on a group of Christian, white, straight men. It removed any compassionate efforts that used to be part of being American.

I will never work for nor support any political group who finds racism and homophobia in ever part of working for America. Capitalism is much more than an economic subject. When these ugly leaders bring in a litmus test before working for any candidate, then it is time for me to stop voting.

I cannot recall any time in my span of 78 years, when capitalism was part of the training of our kids. My grandfather explained it all to me. At CHB, it is a joke, even the GOP can't understand the base of this economic point of view.

Americans are terrified of trying to live within our own rules and making our own way without big daddy. America is being swept into the terrorism of the last days. We allowed our own government to allow our manufacturing corporations to move off shore.

Did we put in better Congressmen? Sadly, we cannot stop the nonsense and start over.

What you are writing about, in the modern world, would amount to an illegal, underground economy (I'm all for it!).

It is debatable whether Capitalism ever really worked, or is even possible, outside undergraduate economics textbooks. Humans seem to be too ignorant, inept and socially irresponsible to prevent Capitalism (or perhaps any other "ism") from being corrupted.

You are certainly right about government setting impossible laws upon us. It is the essence of Totalitarianism [another "ism"] to trap us into a web of control from which we cannot escape.

After the Second World War, our rulers decided to make America a totalitarian society, and they have never looked back.

Unfortunately, totalitarianism is inevitable in a world society of seven billion people, so complex that it would collapse in chaos and mayhem without terribly invasive control.

We are all caught in a maelstrom of unintended (and intended) consequences that conspire to suck us down and turn us into easily manipulated zombies. It requires immense effort to keep our heads above water and remain human.

There are many aspects of the 19th century I would dearly love to see restored. But we live in a world of 7 billion people, where technology controls humans, rather than the reverse.

Could we return to a simpler world of one billion people? That would be quite impossible unless we could reduce the human population back down to a mere billion (and doing it in a humane fashion would make it even more difficult!).

Oh, it could be done, but it would require an immense effort of intelligence and will (or perhaps that should be Nietzschean VILL !).

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Thank you for using the subjunctive. It is such a struggle keeping it alive in the modern world!

How can we save the world, if we cannot even preserve the subjunctive mood? · ·