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The left don't want equality of opportunity, they want equality of outcome. Which, of course, is impossible. But the only way to attempt to make it happen is for government to initiate physical force against it's own citizens in one form or another. But then the left believes that the end justifies the means, and so anything goes....
Anybody who's had a job out in the real world knows this is BS.
Capitalism isn't a meritocracy. The wealthiest group of people are in the finance industry. They produce nothing. Their business is money.
Got news for you, the boogeymen of your finance industry don't exist and get so rich in a capitalist economy. We have a mixed economy: a mixture between freedom and controls. But as usual, the left blames the failures of government intervention on capitalism. A clever little bit of bulls@#$ that. But bulls@#$ nonetheless....
The left don't want equality of opportunity, they want equality of outcome. Which, of course, is impossible. But the only way to attempt to make it happen is for government to initiate physical force against it's own citizens in one form or another. But then the left believes that the end justifies the means, and so anything goes....
No matter how many times you say that, it won't suddenly become true.
For the vast majority of the left they want:
A base level of income. We'd like there to be no homeless people freezing to death outside. And yes we do have homeless people freezing to death outside.
Equality of opportunity-something that is even further from reality now then it was 40 years ago.
The left generally does not believe the end justifies the means. Many of us believe we have to make moral choices, some of which no one can find perfect answers for. You know, the real world.
Im not sure what you've been listening to, but you are vastly mistaken about the people with whom you disagree. Demonizing people you disagree with is a poor choice. But hey I've been called worse then Adolf Hitler, and Charles Manson....so Im getting used to it here
Great points. Agree. Repped! Like I always say on here, musical chairs, why people don't get that is beyond me. I guess they refuse to. There are not enough good jobs for everyone that needs or wants one. Period, end of sentence. And no amount of updating education, skills, work ethic, getting "lazy" people to do whatever... "show up on time" etc... will change this.
How we deal with this situation as a society is the million or trillion dollar question?
We quit regulating ourselves out of business - that's how.
(I imagine you want A FEW examples - check out North *freezing* Dakota, or Keystone, or ANWAR, or Rim Fire tree salvage (being held up by enviro's), CA anti-trucking regs, and wind and solar that we're paying through the NOSE for, with no ROI BTW, and will PAY MORE to upgrade the grid to handle intermittent wish-list power - the list is LOOOOOOOOOOONG, if you were wondering where US jobs have gone *POOF*.)
A simple bedtime story that depicts what happens when there are people willing to earn their keep and others expecting others to take care of them.
Why do you insist on posting and re-posting and re-re-posting this same black and white, myopic, oversimplified, overgeneralized, binary BS that all people who are well off are well off because they work hard and all people who don't earn enough or have enough are in that situation because they are lazy, refuse to work and expect handouts?
Are you really that obtuse and infantile in your thinking, or do you even bother to process a thought before you post this same old tired and baseless nonsense over and over and over?
EQUALITY (of outcome) and LIBERTY are mutually exclusive. You can't have one without upsetting the other.
(Our coins don't say "Equality" - they say LIBERTY )
It's not "Liberty" when there are people so poor that their children to go school hungry. The wealth inequality in this country is extreme and inexcusable.
We quit regulating ourselves out of business - that's how.
(I imagine you want A FEW examples - check out North *freezing* Dakota, or Keystone, or ANWAR, or Rim Fire tree salvage (being held up by enviro's), CA anti-trucking regs, and wind and solar that we're paying through the NOSE for, with no ROI BTW, and will PAY MORE to upgrade the grid to handle intermittent wish-list power - the list is LOOOOOOOOOOONG, if you were wondering where US jobs have gone *POOF*.)
The air is so bad in China's financial capitol tha visibility is 18 feet. Enviro's... yah... let's rip, why not. Chains off everybody. Let's just go for broke and let the economy rock. We'll be killed off in 50 years instead of a hundred. Woo hoo! I'd be for it too if I was going to get a check in the mail like people in Alaska do. But the greedy sods are going to poison us to death and bank the savings offshore. Why should I go along with that? Why should you?
I've heard a lot, bu tthat the big banks are now responsible for the income inequality of the country?
no its just one symptom
monopolistic telecoms, big banks, regulation stopping the little guy from starting a new business and competing.
When we protect the big companies, we are protecting them at the expense of the little ones
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