Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Six Contradictions

1.  America is capitalist and greedy.  Yet half of the population is subsidized.

2.  Half of the population is subsidized.  Yet they think that they are victims.

3.  They think that they are victims.  Yet their representatives run the government.

4.  Their representatives run the government.  Yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5.  The poor keep getting poorer.  Yet they have things people in other countries only dream of.

6.  They have things people in other countries only dream of.   Yet they want America to be like those other countries.

12 comments:

Shouting Thomas said...

Graft run amok.

Idealism is the excuse.

bagoh20 said...

Sure that's all true, but...............................

Look, I really just want to feel good about how caring I am, and you are trying to screw that up, so just shut up. Have I ever told you how I bought that homeless guy a 5 star meal?

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Those aren't contradictions.

People compete for scarce resources and deprivation is relative.

ndspinelli said...

6 great points!

ricpic said...

Mankind was not meant for affluence. And that includes "the poor." Yes, the so-called poor in America are affluent. The return of hard times (awful, but necessary) will knock the stuffing out of the nonsense humans entertain when the going gets easy.

Unknown said...

The left think subsidies are gifts from santa.

edutcher said...

There is no such thing as a poor white Liberal.

virgil xenophon said...

Haz has committed the unpardonable sin of pointing out the obvious.

The Black Helicopters will arrive shortly, Michael..

Icepick said...

The biggest thing about being poor is that you can't choose your neighbors. When you move up the income ladder, you get lots of choices about where to live, and attendant features such as schools for your children and whatnot.

When you are poor, you will live amongst other poor people, many of whom will not be very pleasant. And the poorer you get, the less choice you get. And that is one big damned something.

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Icepick said...

ampersand, you aren't paying attention. If you are in such circumstances that the government is dictating your neighbors, you've already slid down the ladder a few rungs. Your neighborhood has lost its clout, and that clout is the real thing that wealth buys. This loss of clout by the middle class is by design.