Thoughts on Capitalism

                Has Capitalism out used its usefulness? I believe that Capitalism is good when it works, but it has become out dated and faded in our country. Capitalism is a good system when the wealth is evenly spread out throughout the social classes. Once all the wealth becomes stationary in the “one percentile”, capitalism falls down the tube.

                Capitalism started during the 1600’s when times were rough for the lower class. As the merchants and lower class started their own businesses and become wealthy, they started to become powerful in government. The thing about it is that the feudalism governments of the time supported this new concept! This is how capitalism got started!

                People in politics today argue the Barack Obama is turning our capitalistic government into a socialistic government. Socialism in my opinion is just barely a step above communism. It is taking a step toward more government control in everything that a person does. In a capitalistic government, there is only a slight presence of government control. With the new technology and policies of our day and age we are straying very far away from that “slight presence of government control”.

                I like in the quote by Martin Luther King Jr. how he says, “And yet I am not opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits”. This shows that a very educated man even thinks that a capitalistic government can have a large downfall to it. Martin Luther King Jr. pretty much says, yeah it is a government, but it isn’t a well put together government. Capitalism gets the job done, but only for a little while.

                I believe that the United States should be declared “capitalism”, but we should maybe try to adopt some of the policies that socialistic countries do. Reading about some of the countries that have a socialistic government is very interesting. Some of the countries that have a well-ran socialistic government; have the highest literacy rates in the world. Finland has a literacy rate of 100%. A lot of these countries also have great health care and education systems.  Another interesting fact is that in Denmark, small businesses thrive. The government helps out these small businesses greatly because they know how important they are for the economy.

                I believe that a government that could have a happy medium between capitalism and socialism would be a good step. However, all governments have their weaknesses and time is one of them. Over time every great government will fail in one way or another. So is there really any good form of government?

Democracy: Destined For Downfall

                Democracy has been around for centuries. Democracy is a great system of government to have. It is good, but it is also bad. Democracy tends to fail quite a bit. We can’t have a democracy when all of our leaders are greedy and corrupt. If we had a “true” democracy, the people would really have a say in what happens. Our government is technically a republic with only a select few higher up people.

                What I think John Adams was getting at was this; do not be surprised if the government system fails in the future. Being an intellectual person, John Adams probably studied the world and how the people in the world responded to different situations in their political government. He knew about all the other governments in the world that tried democracy but went corrupt and turned to a monarch, communistic, or some other type of government. This could eventually happen to the United States. Everyone always talks about how great our government policy is set up, and all the power that we have as a nation. What is power worth when you are in debt and have a government that can’t get anything accomplished?

                I like how John Adams says, “…It is more bloody than aristocracy or monarchy…It soon wastes and murders itself”. I was thinking about this part of his quote when it hit me. Our government is very bloody. All the different politics bash each other and say bad things about the other political parties just so they can get nothing accomplished. All the different people in politics HATE the people of the other party. Why can’t politics be friends to one another and positively criticize each other? They would get so much more accomplished and maybe our government wouldn’t be a political bloodbath. In the second part of the quote where it says, “it murders itself”, is so true that it is terrifying. A democratic government can bring itself to pieces so easily. If it only takes one suggestion  by a political party to cause an explosion of anger and idiotic stress, what would it take to bring the entire system down?

                Egypt, Greece, China, and Rome are all examples of ancient world powers. These countries succeeded greatly in the ancient world. If our government is striving for the same success that these empires had, I believe that we need to make changes, or at least get along in our government systems. Is any government system without flaw? Probably not, but with flaw there is room for improvement. Hopefully our nation can improve instead of crumble.

Bicameral Government

                After the Colonies won the Revolutionary War against the British, they needed to set up a government. When setting up this government, they based it off of what they knew. What they knew was what the British had. They chose to also have a bicameral legislature, just like the British had. This is the historical part of it. The practical reason for the choosing of this bicameral legislature is that something had to be done about the Virginia and New Jersey Plans. They were compromised together, creating the government we have now. As for the theoretical part of it, the founding fathers thought that one house would keep the other house in check. What I mean by this is, that one house wouldn’t let the other get out of whack and go nuts. This is the history of our bicameral government that runs our great country. I believe that this system works "sometimes". Key word, "sometimes". I think that it is a great idea and it can run a government very well, but sometimes it can be ineffective. What I mean by this is that when people get too stubborn, nothing gets accomplished. This sometimes happens in government. Take the Keystone Pipeline for example, it is a stalemate. There are good and bad things that come along with a Bicameral Government. I think that our founding fathers did a good thing by establishing one in our country.