Friday, July 08, 2011
Is Wealth evil?
Obama in the so-called budget talks with Republicans says we have to end tax breaks and close the loopholes for wealthy Americans and oil companies and corporate jet owners. He's had philosophical issues with The Problem of Wealth his whole life, it bothers him and animates him and inspires him and it's not just him, it's the whole Democratic Party. Wealth is evil is a kind of unspoken Democratic Party platform. The constant engagement in the rhetoric and tools of class warfare, now it'll be dressed up as practical and responsible measures to lower the debt and reduce the deficit but what is the real motive here? I would submit they have a philosophical problem with wealth as does the president and on a psychological level it's really all about punishing the rich who when you get right down to it create jobs for the rest of us. Though I cannot relate to the rich, they are out of my orbit but if a person comes by his wealth honestly and through sheer dint of hard work why should they be punished in the form of confiscatory taxation? I can come up with no valid reason except for the psychological one, you resent them. This doesn't make me pro-the wealthy just being honest. C'mon admit it all you liberals, you hate the rich!
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In answer to your question, of course wealth is not evil, but perhaps trying to divide people by creating class warfare is!
ReplyDeleteMoney is a tool like any other. It can be used in countless ways for good or for evil. However and unfortunately as most religions and philosophies explain and as practical observation proves, money is a nearly insurmountable temptation and the root of all evil for 99.9% of the people who get a good deal of it. There are of course exceptions.
ReplyDeleteI think trying to paint with all these huge brushes becomes silly. There are liberals with money too, so trying to say 'all liberals hate all the rich' becomes a logic problem.
I don't hate the rich. I also don't see taxation as punishment. I don't even resent the rich. Pretty much we have everything we want and or need right now and more money wouldn't particularly change any of it (except to pay off the mortgage a little sooner).
I do think that far, far too many people like to cling to this idea that people who have vast quantities of money all somehow did it all by just eating ramen noodles and working 100 hour weeks. The CEOs and executives who get millions IN BONUSES? Should we feel sorry for all their hard work and think that they deserve those millions, as they lay off thousands?
I don't think so.
I hit a deer yesterday morning with the truck and this was really just so not a good time for me to have to take on that kind of karma. :(
But it wasn't like you did it on purpose. OJ Simpson, did a blog once about him like My Bad Karma is Taking Too Long to Kick in So Let Me Do Something About it so he goes and robs some guys in a hotel room in Vegas and will probably spend the rest of his days behind bars. LOL
ReplyDeleteWhat I propose is that liberals' constant calls for higher taxes on the rich falls under a psychological category for me. Oh no they'll say they don't hate the rich, don't resent them yada yada but deep down in their political ids it helps explain their constant engagement in class warfare. Obama does this, hates the rich, can't resist the class warfare thing, there's a deep-seated psychological reason for it, for all of left-wing politics but then when folks begin to figure things out, that he has a bug up his ass about the rich (why else is he always talking about them?) he'll start making overtures to the business community, have a power lunch with them ("see I don't really hate the rich, so much demagoguery") but like the habitual political masturbator that he is his left hand starts working again.
ReplyDeleteIs Wealth evil? It seems that way now don't it!
ReplyDeleteLet us not forget that it's the Wealthy, and the upper-class who employes the middle and lower class.
"In times of war the strong enslave the weak. In times of peace the rich enslave the poor." -Oscar Wilde
ReplyDeleteMan knew what he was about.
Also from Wilde "nowadays the married men act like bachelors and the bachelors act like married men." DSK, Ahnuld et al.
ReplyDeleteAnd in times of liberals in the White House, we all will be enslaved, huh?
ReplyDeleteTruth is, very very few even know or understand what money really is.
ReplyDeleteBeth, if you truly understood slavery, I don't think you'd say half the things you do.
ReplyDeleteI could be wrong, but that's just my take on it at this moment. I do have rather an impressive head injury at the moment, though, I should add.
So what is your excuse for being wrong when you don't have an impressive head injury?
ReplyDeleteCute. And thanks for your concern; I can really feel the compassion, all the way from NC.
ReplyDeleteI stand by my statement. If you had the foggiest of actual notions about what slavery really is, you'd be rethinking most of the things you spout off.
I guess that head injury made you lose your sense of humor, unless maybe you never had one?
ReplyDeleteSlavery is forcing someone to do work and someone else receives the fruits of their labor, sounds like what Obama wants to do to all of us, yup.
Slavery is the Federal Reserve banking system.
ReplyDelete& only one Republican candidate for president is against it to my knowledge.
ReplyDeleteGary Johnson too admits to it's recklessness but certainly does not challenge it with the fervor that Dr. Paul has throughout his entire 30+ year career.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame more people don't learn more about it. Protecting the unborn is certainly a noble cause but if you're only going to subject them to fractional reserve slavery what's the f'in point?
Hey soap ever read Tony Brown's Empower the People: Overthrow the Conspiracy That Is Stealing Your Money and Freedom? He's that black guy that used to be on PBS and he's against the Fed. This book is right up your alley, discusses everything, masonry, the works!!
ReplyDeleteIt's not as good as The Creature from Jekyll Island.
ReplyDeleteBut it's a good basic primer soap for folks who are new to this stuff.
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