Wealth Inequality?

Started by Solar, November 28, 2012, 07:00:15 AM

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Think maybe I'm older than most of you here but I surely do relate to the kind of rearing some of you mentioned and it was good enough for my kids too.  Nothing like learning naturally.  Oh, my parents were close by and I knew the whereabouts of my kids most of the time.  Things like that were an understanding when it was going on and I treasure those days.  Now, it's just the opposite of what it was then and very scary to me of how kids are being led. 

I can say that my parents weren't rich and both worked but they worked separately so that we weren't left with sitters, ever.  That was the way it was in my neighborhood with all of the families.  We left our doors open day or night-never locked them.  The only thing we ever run into was a beggar or extremely poor person that all of us would feed if we could.  Everyone got along, kids and adults, for the most part. 

Times have changed all of those good times for too many of us.  We were considered poor back then, I guess, but pretty much all of us were.  I'm talking late 40's thru the 50's.  Everything didn't revolve around how rich or poor you were because coming out of the Great Depression, everybody was in the same boat and there wasn't any money.
Lots of household items were rationed, maybe other things like fuel but i don't remember due to I was a baby then.  But, I do remember the strength and resolve of my parents to experience the American Dream and I'm happy to say that they did have goals and managed to achieve them but only by hard work and character to follow thru. 
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Darth Fife

This is not a "Young Michael Moore" per se, but a young person who espouses the clap-trap promoted by Michael Moore and his ilk.

Milton Friedman Puts A Young Michael Moore In His Place

Solar

Quote from: Darth Fife on November 30, 2012, 08:30:50 AM
This is not a "Young Michael Moore" per se, but a young person who espouses the clap-trap promoted by Michael Moore and his ilk.

Milton Friedman Puts A Young Michael Moore In His Place
I was watching that last week, and Friedman laid him down, eviscerated him, and left him out to dry.
Good stuff...
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Charliemyboy

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with being rich.  If Obama would give the millions he is costing us by his highlife in Hawaii to several individuals instead of wasting it on his hedonistic lifestyle, he could create some new millionaires to tax. 










hfishjr81

Quote from: CubaLibre on November 29, 2012, 07:23:23 PM
And yet, in our statist society, cigarette companies continue to lie, car companies continue to pollute, and oil rigs continue to spill. Talk about a failed investment...


Agreed...
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Solar

Quote from: Yawn on December 01, 2012, 10:07:50 AM
Here he is verses the real Phil Donahue.  He would have agreed with Romney on GM.
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Every time Friedman spoke, a libs head exploded.
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Quote from: hfishjr81 on November 29, 2012, 07:14:00 PM

IMO, a filthy rich person that's tired of living like a rich person in a world that is largely poor so he/she/it leaves the known world to be without "regulation" and "taxation".
To put it mildly, John Galt is an jaggoff that just cant deal, even with super rich means, in a world that requires cigarette companies to not lie, car companies not pollute, and oil rigs not spill.

John Galt is a greedy, selfish,  turn coat.

It's easy for people with no marketable skill, like yourself, to have a problem with us producers.  No worries.  Once the producers have been reduced to nothing, you'll get your slave utopia.

One funny thing about Marxists and the like is they always think they're going to be the ones on top.
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Solar

Quote from: taxed on December 01, 2012, 01:58:15 PM
It's easy for people with no marketable skill, like yourself, to have a problem with us producers.  No worries.  Once the producers have been reduced to nothing, you'll get your slave utopia.

One funny thing about Marxists and the like is they always think they're going to be the ones on top.
Libs see the glass as half empty, and instead of encouraging others to fill it, they pour it into a smaller glass.
And when that glass gets halfway, they'll repeat the process in an attempt to make it look full again, all the while the producers that keep filling the glass become scarce.

Eventually there will just be a giant painting of a full glass, hanging in the Smithsonian.....
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Quote from: Solar on December 01, 2012, 03:49:46 PM
Libs see the glass as half empty, and instead of encouraging others to fill it, they pour it into a smaller glass.
And when that glass gets halfway, they'll repeat the process in an attempt to make it look full again, all the while the producers that keep filling the glass become scarce.

Eventually there will just be a giant painting of a full glass, hanging in the Smithsonian.....


You mean they are gonna replace the glass with the cross in urine with something new?

Billy
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Solar

Quote from: BILLY Defiant on December 01, 2012, 03:53:39 PM

You mean they are gonna replace the glass with the cross in urine with something new?

Billy
Probably a bigger cross, being it has more volume displacement, the glass will appear to be fuller. :wink:
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Quote from: taxed on December 01, 2012, 01:58:15 PM
It's easy for people with no marketable skill, like yourself, to have a problem with us producers.  No worries.  Once the producers have been reduced to nothing, you'll get your slave utopia.

One funny thing about Marxists and the like is they always think they're going to be the ones on top.
Joseph Schumpeter said it best:
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Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

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Capitalism has always asked a question that intellectuals have no answer to, and therefore hate: "what use are you"? Once upon a time "intellectuals" were the "pets" of the rich and powerful, both being supported by a large mass of servile peasants. The capitalism came along and made it possible for a peasant to rise from the bottom to the top, displacing those who deserved their position due to birth or "intellectual achievement". It seems much of intellectual pursuit over the last two centuries has consisted of attempting to push the great mass of people back down into servility, while putting in place a new aristocracy who have always promised to return intellectuals to their "rightful" place.  :rolleyes:
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Quote from: CubaLibre on December 01, 2012, 04:12:11 PM
Joseph Schumpeter said it best:

That is a great quote...

Might I ask how you came across it?