America Faces the Barricades (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Spivak, John L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331374081 ISBN 13: 9781331374084

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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After talking with all kinds of people throughout the coun try, I am convinced that the American worker does not want to overthrow the government. All he wants is food. But if the government will not make it possible for him to earn it or will not give it to him, then he will overthrow the government, without realizing that he is doing so.

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Excerpt from America Faces the Barricades

After talking with all kinds of people throughout the country, I am convinced that the American worker does not want to overthrow the government. All he wants is food. But if the government will not make it possible for him to earn it or will not give it to him, then he will overthrow the government, without realizing that he is doing so.

Under the present economic system it is impossible for our farms and factories ever to absorb all the millions of unemployed. The tendency, since the curtailment of the working hours, has been for manufacturers to mechanize their plants more highly in order to make up for the reduced working hours where they cannot be made up by the "speed-up" system. Thus, for years, millions will be permanently on relief rolls, whom the government will have to support, since private charity can no longer do it.

Where will the government get the money? It can raise taxes, pass an unemployment-insurance bill, or inflate the currency. Since the very purpose of our economic system is profit, employers may be expected to oppose anything that tends to cut into their profits, such as higher taxes; in the event of unemployment insurance, we may expect that the sum to be set aside for this purpose will be taken out of the workers pay envelopes, thus adding to the irritation of an already irritated people.

We already have a modified form of inflation in the 59-cent dollar and the embargo on gold. The use of silver is yet to come. When silver as an inflationary measure is exhausted, then the printing of paper money is inevitable.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331374081
• ISBN 13: 9781331374084
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292