On 10/22/2015 10:28 PM, olliesed...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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If something is worth having, it's worth working for. That would
include economic equality and opportunity. Should a high school drop
out have the same economic opportunities that someone with a PHD has?
Should a person with no more ability to flip a burger earn as much as
a brain surgeon? It could happen, but they better have something to
offer that is in high demand. I can honestly say that I've earned
everything I've got. Had I been more ambitious,I could have had more
than I have now. I'm not complaining.
You are assuming that hard work equals reward commensurate with effort
exerted. Not so. It would be so simple if that were the case. Many,
many people literally work their asses off and have no home, very
little food to eat and live in rags. The world does not work like how
you think it works. There is inequality with regard to race, gender
and class that takes its toll on millions of people. I have known a
number of well-heeled individuals who like to recline back in their
easy chairs, glance around at their paneled, ornate l! iving rooms
while sipping 25 year old tawny port and smugly assert that if
everyone was just willing to work hard they could enjoy the advantages
that they enjoy. Bullshit.
Knocked that one out of the park. It doesn't take any esteemed values,
such as compassion and equality, to make a lot of money. No one is
saying give it back, but own up to what got you there. In these
times, due to the leverage of tech, money buys more influence than it
ever has. Unfortunately, many use that as an excuse to become ever
richer, consequences be damned. The rich DO get richer and the poor
get poorer.
This crap about people wanting to lie around on welfare, vs. having
productive and meaningful jobs is propaganda put out by those who have
already shipped many of the middle class jobs outside the US. Blame
the victim. Yet another fake wedge issue, and quite brilliant, really
- get the lower middle class to hate the poor. Same strategy used in
the South for about a century to keep slavery popular, even among the
poorest non-slave owning whites; someone yet lower than themselves.
Unfortunately money has no soul and those who are dedicated to making
ever more of it end up the same way; pathetic, and cruel.
I grew up watching my older brother, who was a business man, play the
game for wealth often with a bevy of his pals at his side. Pals, BTW,
who were attorneys and could find exactly where to draw line to stay out
of trouble. Some of this involved government contracts during Vietnam war.
Some business people are successful because they forge ahead as if they
have blinders on. They need those lawyers at their side or they'd would
wind up in prison and some do. A lot of people become successful
exploiting grey areas before they become illegal. Morality is not a part
of the game at all. It's all about money.
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*From:* "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]"
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*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:57 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Planets support Hillary!
Capitalism promotes greed and inequality. Socialism provides equality
and equal opportunity. How's that inequality workin' out for ya?
On 10/21/2015 05:44 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@...
<mailto:mdixon.6569@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Capitalism creates wealth, socialism just redistributes it.
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[FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
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*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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*Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:37 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Planets support Hillary!
The problem with capitalism is that sooner or later you run
out of other people's money too. Then everybody is broke.
What's your point?
On 10/21/2015 05:00 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@...
<mailto:mdixon.6569@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
The problem with socialism is, that sooner or later, you run
out of other people's money.
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*From:* "Bhairitu noozguru@... <mailto:noozguru@...>
[FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
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*Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2015 5:07 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Planets support Hillary!
What's happening is that the dems are freaked by the
traction Bernie Sanders is getting. He's also popular with
millennials who could swing the vote. I also have a theory
Sanders is the reason Trump jumped into the race. So it
could be an election of democratic socialism vs corporatism.
Thing is, the US needs some socialism to balance things. All
corporatists care about is making lots and lots of money and
the public be damned.
I've listened to Sanders on Thom Hartmann's show for years
and he is a very reasonable person so it won't be the new
Soviet Union by a any means. Hillary is too "status quo"
with lots of skeletons in her closet.
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