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Old 04-26-2016, 05:40 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Give a man a fish v. teaching a man to fish.


Some do not care to learn, because they get a fish today.
And they scream bloody hell if they don't get a fish tomorrow, or the day after that, or the day after that, or the day after that... ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
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Old 04-26-2016, 05:42 AM
 
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In a free market, there would be more competition and not government running the show, to eliminate competition from the people (pick the winners)

If the rich brought value to the people, yes they would be productive. If they didn't, they would be bankrupt.

If the poor out number the rich, like they always have, seems the market share would eventually dwindle and no one could afford you and you then fail too.
Yes. Exactly.

Why do so many people NOT understand those very basic concepts?
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Old 04-26-2016, 04:21 PM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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In a free market, there would be more competition and not government running the show, to eliminate competition from the people(pick the winners)

If the rich brought value to the people, yes they would be productive. If they didn't, they would be bankrupt.


If the poor out number the rich, like they always have, seems the market share would eventually dwindle and no one could afford yo and you then fail too.
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Yes. Exactly.

Why do so many people NOT understand those very basic concepts?
Yea.... The real world hasn't and doesn't operate like that.
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Old 04-27-2016, 03:47 AM
 
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Yea.... The real world hasn't and doesn't operate like that.
That's because the government interferes and picks artificial winners and losers.
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Old 04-27-2016, 05:14 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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After reading most of this self congratulatory thread by the Holier Than Thou RW Saints, I have concluded that you all think that those that do not conform to the demand of the God of Greed should be punished for their blasphemy of being poor.

I prefer that the poor be fed and housed enough to keep them from taking guns and leveling the playing field. I think that is a far better use for the billions and trillions than the industrial and corporate welfare you willingly pay for complicated weapons systems that are not needed or do not work. it is OK to subsidize mostly White jobs and profits but a sin to feed mostly Black poor.

Your blasphemy and racism are both blindingly obvious.
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Old 04-27-2016, 05:37 AM
 
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After reading most of this self congratulatory thread by the Holier Than Thou RW Saints, I have concluded that you all think that those that do not conform to the demand of the God of Greed should be punished for their blasphemy of being poor.

I prefer that the poor be fed and housed enough to keep them from taking guns and leveling the playing field. I think that is a far better use for the billions and trillions than the industrial and corporate welfare you willingly pay for complicated weapons systems that are not needed or do not work. it is OK to subsidize mostly White jobs and profits but a sin to feed mostly Black poor.

Your blasphemy and racism are both blindingly obvious.
Perfect People of CD© syndrome. Its big in financial threads too . . . Anyone who is poor, is poor because they spend all their money on iPhones and Jordans. All the PPoCD© came up with nothing and now live good, wholesome lives of thrift and common sense giving them a right to pass judgement on internet forums.
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Old 04-27-2016, 05:41 AM
 
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After reading most of this self congratulatory thread by the Holier Than Thou RW Saints, I have concluded that you all think that those that do not conform to the demand of the God of Greed should be punished for their blasphemy of being poor.

I prefer that the poor be fed and housed enough to keep them from taking guns and leveling the playing field.
I, for one, would me more likely to feel that way about it if the poor weren't deliberately over-reproducing. They already get access to free contraceptives via Medicaid and/or Public Health Departments, but women who receive public assistance, as a group, have a birth rate 3 times higher than those who don't.

Citations and links, here:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/40277525-post281.html

It's a sad fact of life that we're going to have to pay the poor MORE for NOT breeding than we give them for continuing to bear children they cannot support.
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Old 04-27-2016, 06:31 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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Guess the US could eliminate public education and only the offspring of the 1% would pursue top notch private education, as once was the case.

Yeah, sounds like a plan to me.
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Old 04-27-2016, 06:37 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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I, for one, would me more likely to feel that way about it if the poor weren't deliberately over-reproducing. They already get access to free contraceptives via Medicaid and/or Public Health Departments, but women who receive public assistance, as a group, have a birth rate 3 times higher than those who don't.

Citations and links, here:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/40277525-post281.html

It's a sad fact of life that we're going to have to pay the poor MORE for NOT breeding than we give them for continuing to bear children they cannot support.

Last time I checked, it took a man and a woman having unprotected sex to conceive a child.

The poor all over the world tend to have more children than any other demographic and it has noting to do with benefits.
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Old 04-27-2016, 08:03 AM
 
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Last time I checked, it took a man and a woman having unprotected sex to conceive a child.

The poor all over the world tend to have more children than any other demographic and it has noting to do with benefits.
Glad you recognize that. STOP giving them benefits. Let them suffer the same consequences as the rest of the worldwide over-breeding poor.
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