Greetings good citizen,
Every once in a while the ‘Libertarian Book Review’ stumbles upon a worthwhile article usually defined by the articles willingness not to kick capitalism in the chops too hard. [Libbies LOVE capitalism!]
I can only assume they have to run a couple of articles like this one to throw off the stench of rabid conservatism that lies just beneath their faux liberal sympathies.
Worse, they hate liberals so much they don’t use the term! The call themselves 'progressives' instead...(like the Nazis.)
But that’s another matter to be dealt with later. On with the article!:
Um, good last point but you know that premise is faulty because I saw a politician on the TV just last night (and he wasn’t wearing prison orange!)
Like I said, the writer makes a good point (and the only reason the LBR ran it is because he did everything but point at the ‘cause’ of all of these woes…capitalism and it’s mismanagement of money/resources!)
Scarier still all of a sudden the LBR is brimming with ads for ‘doomsday preparations’.
When 12/21/12 comes and goes (as most of us expect it will) we can only wonder what will be the next ‘doomsday trigger’ that will jump out of the woodwork.
Another ‘chicken little’ perhaps? (killer asteroids are everywhere!)
Worse, this doomsday bullshit is becoming BIG business…fostered, once again, by predatory capitalism!
Ironically, it’s bullet point number 4 that most of us have become ‘disenchanted’ with…NOBODY believes the claim that we all have a ‘million dollars in each arm, all we have to do is work it out!’
It doesn’t take long even for the morons among us to work out that you will NEVER get ‘rich’ working for somebody else!
How many of you DIDN’T know that?
Good, stupid people aren’t welcome here.
Everybody knows but nobody does anything about the stranglehold the criminal wealthy have on the resources we all need to live…until now.
Life itself has forced our hand good citizen. Will we just stand there while the selfish rich kill our children?
I think not…but I could be proven wrong, TV and movies have you all shaking in your socks because the One Percent ‘know all and see all’…their ninja assassins are prepared to strike down anyone who challenges their rule.
The hapless objector will never see it coming nor will his/her murderer ever see ‘justice’…(because ’right & wrong’ are the sole domain of the One Percent.)
Like the Israelis, no one has the authority to tell them they’re wrong…not even ‘spirit on the sky’, because they are his ‘chosen people’…thus are they free to ‘murder at will’ AND claim it is ‘divine vengeance!’
I don’t know about you but it seems to me we got a little problem here…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Every once in a while the ‘Libertarian Book Review’ stumbles upon a worthwhile article usually defined by the articles willingness not to kick capitalism in the chops too hard. [Libbies LOVE capitalism!]
I can only assume they have to run a couple of articles like this one to throw off the stench of rabid conservatism that lies just beneath their faux liberal sympathies.
Worse, they hate liberals so much they don’t use the term! The call themselves 'progressives' instead...(like the Nazis.)
But that’s another matter to be dealt with later. On with the article!:
5 Ways Most Americans Are Blind to How Their Country Is Stacked for the Wealthy
1. Americans believe that the poorest 40 percent own about 10% of the wealth.
Most people greatly underestimate the level of inequality in our country, guessing that the poorest 40 percent own about 10% of the wealth, when in reality they own much less than 1% of the wealth. Out of every dollar, they own a third of a penny.
2. Entitlements are the problem.
No, they're not. The evidence is overwhelming. Social Security is a popular and well-run program. As summarized by Bernie Sanders, "Social Security, which is funded by the payroll tax, has not contributed one nickel to the deficit, and according to its trustees, can pay 100 percent of all benefits owed to every eligible American for the next 21 years." Dean Baker calls it "perhaps the greatest success story of any program in US history." [Truth be told, good citizen, if it weren’t for ‘government handouts’ we WOULDN’T HAVE AN ECONOMY!]
3. Welfare benefits are a drag on the economy.
Critics bemoan the amounts of aid being lavished on lower-income Americans, making dubious claims about thousands of dollars going to every poor family. But despite an ever-growing need for jobs and basic living necessities, federal spending on poverty programs is a small part of the budget, and it's been that way for almost 50 years, increasing from 0.8 percent of GDP in 1962 to 1.2 percent of GDP in 2007. [SEE ABOVE: WELFARE BENEFITS ARE THE ECONOMY!]
4. The American Dream is still alive, if you just work hard enough.
The Horatio Alger tale has been a popular one for conservatives, but the OECD, the Economic Policy Institute and the National Journal all came to the same conclusion: the future earnings of a child in the U.S. is closely correlated to the earnings of his or her parents. This lack of mobility is more prevalent in the U.S. than in almost all other OECD countries. [George Carlin, may he rest in piece, nailed this one, “you have to be dreaming to believe in the American Dream!”]
5. Prison puts away the bad guys.
Despite a falling violent crime rate in the U.S., there are now, as noted by Adam Gopnik, "more people under 'correctional supervision' in America -- more than six million -- than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height."
Um, good last point but you know that premise is faulty because I saw a politician on the TV just last night (and he wasn’t wearing prison orange!)
Like I said, the writer makes a good point (and the only reason the LBR ran it is because he did everything but point at the ‘cause’ of all of these woes…capitalism and it’s mismanagement of money/resources!)
Scarier still all of a sudden the LBR is brimming with ads for ‘doomsday preparations’.
When 12/21/12 comes and goes (as most of us expect it will) we can only wonder what will be the next ‘doomsday trigger’ that will jump out of the woodwork.
Another ‘chicken little’ perhaps? (killer asteroids are everywhere!)
Worse, this doomsday bullshit is becoming BIG business…fostered, once again, by predatory capitalism!
Ironically, it’s bullet point number 4 that most of us have become ‘disenchanted’ with…NOBODY believes the claim that we all have a ‘million dollars in each arm, all we have to do is work it out!’
It doesn’t take long even for the morons among us to work out that you will NEVER get ‘rich’ working for somebody else!
How many of you DIDN’T know that?
Good, stupid people aren’t welcome here.
Everybody knows but nobody does anything about the stranglehold the criminal wealthy have on the resources we all need to live…until now.
Life itself has forced our hand good citizen. Will we just stand there while the selfish rich kill our children?
I think not…but I could be proven wrong, TV and movies have you all shaking in your socks because the One Percent ‘know all and see all’…their ninja assassins are prepared to strike down anyone who challenges their rule.
The hapless objector will never see it coming nor will his/her murderer ever see ‘justice’…(because ’right & wrong’ are the sole domain of the One Percent.)
Like the Israelis, no one has the authority to tell them they’re wrong…not even ‘spirit on the sky’, because they are his ‘chosen people’…thus are they free to ‘murder at will’ AND claim it is ‘divine vengeance!’
I don’t know about you but it seems to me we got a little problem here…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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