Friday, February 18, 2011

Re: The poor are not getting poorer

On Feb 17, 6:46 pm, dick thompson <rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>      How do you put limits to what can be expected.  As soon as you do
> then you will have someone else saying he gets that why don't I.  You
> are trying to game the outcome without gaming the input.  It all goes
> back to what Maggie Thatcher said, "Socialism works well until you run
> out of someone else's money."  You are trying to game the system on
> someone else's money or work or effort to learn so you can do more.  The
> whole idea of capitalism is that you are the decision maker on what you
> will be able to do.  It is strictly up to you and what you are willing
> to put forth to get from where you are now to where you want to be.  If
> someone else does it for you, then you will not value the effort
> required and will just keep wanting more.  You are like a baby chick
> waiting for mommy and daddy bird to come feed you.
>
> On 02/17/2011 07:21 PM, Wes wrote:
>
>
>
> > think of these things like cars and insurance as acreage of land.
> > should i work for you for less land than i need to survive? should you
> > morrally want me to? How many acres does Wal-Mart need before they can
> > say "everyone working for me get's a good piece of land (some more)"?
>
> > On Feb 17, 6:14 pm, BB47<mde...@socal.rr.com>  wrote:
> >> On Feb 17, 3:46 pm, Wes<wesleykell...@hotmail.com>  wrote:
>
> >>> Nobody should be expected to work and not afford a car (plus repairs),
> >>> rent, health insurance, retirement and also little things that make
> >>> life worthwhile (Cable TV could be one). Why do you want to pay people
> >>> less than they need, you can't or you won't? you always act like their
> >>> friends till it comes to payday then you're more of a rapist.
> >>   Just picture a world filled with YOUs.  Everyone complaining to each
> >> other that you should buy the other a car and everything else on your
> >> list.  Think about that for a little while.  Spend some time
> >> surrounded by multiple yous'
> >> Insane isn't it?
>
> >> What you fail to see is that all that stuff you ask for costs WAY more
> >> than you "put in" at a low end job.
> >> Therefore you are forcing someone else to buy it for you with THEIR
> >> work.  Can you see how unfair that is?
> >> It is mathematically impossible to make your scenario work.
>
> >>     You act like all those things are your right!  Just by being born
> >> and able to say "welcome to Walmart"  gets you a car, retirement,
> >> health care, cable TV, repairs, the whole life? (which costs hundreds
> >> of thousands of dollars)
> >> How can you think that? That is just crazy.  Somebody had to earn that
> >> money.  Somebody that did everything way better than you did and your
> >> low skill job.  You don't deserve their hard work.- Hide quoted text -
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