Reply #45: I think that is headed in the right direction

[TheFarseer]

It's better if we all have a stake in our country and our economy. What is bad and what we have happening now is when some people pretend that we can replace the job market with the stock market. I sincerely think some on the right and even some on the left think we can have a situation where Americans own all these stocks and make a living collecting dividends when the people doing the labor and generating these profits are third world children making soccer balls for 19 cents a day or Mexicans making cars for 51 cents an hour and we won't need any Americans manufacturing anything. THIS CANNOT HAPPEN. Even if this situation came about (which it never would), how long would it be before the foreign labor got a tad upset that we are making all the money and they are doing all the work and they nationalize the damn thing? This line of thinking is just plain f**king stupid and will lead to complete disaster. Everyone owning stock is not bad and actually is desirable BUT this cannot come in tandem with the collapse of our job market.