tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post797937502922351463..comments2024-03-28T15:33:17.736-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: George Will highlights socialist economic stupidityPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-3244870214330784802015-10-22T05:54:05.130-05:002015-10-22T05:54:05.130-05:00Hey Joe, for Europeans there's no such thing a...Hey Joe, for Europeans there's no such thing as "magical Europe" - I can tell, I'm living in Germany. Actually we're confronted with some of the same problems here: I'm paying higher taxes because I have higher income in order for the government to finance hell of a lot of "social programs". The problem with this is that these so called "social programs" are of the type where people are getting used to get fish every day so they don't see a reason to learn how to fish...CGR710https://www.blogger.com/profile/15505866142053585054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-7429228616199302902015-10-21T03:14:17.650-05:002015-10-21T03:14:17.650-05:00Another problem is what I like to think of as &quo...Another problem is what I like to think of as "Magic Europe"- this is that magical place that only exist in the minds of the American Left. A wonderful place where Socialism works perfectly, and there's no gun violence or inequality or stuff, and you can like totally get legally baked!<br /><br />Joe in PNGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-70926599069652899282015-10-20T12:19:48.427-05:002015-10-20T12:19:48.427-05:00Sadly, it appears that for far too many of our cit...Sadly, it appears that for far too many of our citizen voters their math ability is limited to 1, 2, 3, many. Thank you public school system. So when they see a national budget expressed in trillions of dollars their natural reaction is that enough to give them their heart's desires can't be even a drop in the bucket. That multiplying that by the millions drains that bucket to the bottom simply does not register.<br />Bernie and Hillary are shamelessly buying votes with the promise of free stuff. Why not, it's worked before. But wasn't it Thatcher who famously said, "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples' money."Uncle Larhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04008207593205949098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-21778535120785730892015-10-20T04:57:48.056-05:002015-10-20T04:57:48.056-05:00I've heard the 'tax the rich' for so l...I've heard the 'tax the rich' for so long, its like a part of my life. No one considers that it is discrimination, taxing a certain group of persons because they have money. Replace the word 'rich' with 'old' for example (hey, they've had twice as long to get their money :^) or 'minority' (they already resent the majority - might as well make hay while the sun shines). That changes the sentiment, doesn't it.<br /><br />I think the flat tax is about as fair as it gets, not perfect but the self made successful person shouldn't be penalized for being intelligent. Isn't it funny - we tell people to go to college, become successful and make lots of money so we can tax them when they do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-87635340962461548932015-10-20T02:37:34.120-05:002015-10-20T02:37:34.120-05:00I always wondered how these guys would like to liv...I always wondered how these guys would like to live under their "dream" regime, but not as part of the ruling class, just the average Joe... I think they would very quickly start complaining about inequality of representation (since they would not be part of the system) - at least until the next evolutionary step of this type of regime, where they would get their asses kicked for "fomenting trouble in paradise"... They should start reading Orwell and Huxley and Soljenitzin as well as talk with people with some experience in living in such a system. I'm truly sick of these kind of idiots, with the obvious idea that the government must guarantee not "the pursuit of Happiness", but to somehow "guarantee Happiness" for everyone. They don't seem to want to acknowledge at the living examples of such society model failures (North Korea). They just seem to think that "hey, these guys had the right idea but they were not smart enough like us to make it work". This translates to Einstein's quote: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".<br />The problem is even worse, since these guys are just a bunch of generations of such idiots which led US to where it is now - in an amazingly similar situation as the Roman republic before it become the Roman Empire. Only the world is a much more dangerous environment than Europe half a century before Christ...CGR710https://www.blogger.com/profile/15505866142053585054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-42015720618808263432015-10-19T18:50:29.600-05:002015-10-19T18:50:29.600-05:00Kipling is simply a patriarchal apologist for an o...Kipling is simply a patriarchal apologist for an old imperialist regime. I'm shocked that you would suggest the product of such a sensible realist as good reading material for the left. /sarcQuartermasternoreply@blogger.com