I did not mean to imply that those were your thoughts. But

Posted on: March 25, 2017 at 11:19:01 CT

inasmuch as you were incapable or disinterested in seeing the logical extension of your argument, i pointed it out.

The logical conclusion of the socialist argument, shared by you (please don't say i called you a socialist) is that people who have done well or reasonably well are not entitled to their own money. They have enough.

But the people who have lived carelessly or even recklessly are entitled to the money of the person who has done well.

Fairness.

The underlying assumption to this and most socialist ideas is that everyone is the same. In terms of intellect, ability and ambition. The only thing that determines why one person succeeds and another lives in a trailer cooking crystal meth with his six illegitimate children by five women, is luck.

And that's not fair.

Oh, and racism. That's not fair, either.

This is the part where the idiots say, "We're just trying to level the playing field." No, you're trying to level the outcome. After the race on an already level playing field, one guy finished ten yards ahead of the other runner. That's not fair. So make the race a tie. Let them share the prize equally.

The guy who "won," worked and trained and did without many of the things he would have liked, in order to do as well as possible in the race (i.e., life). The other guy was the layabout. Never worked, never trained, never cared for his family.

So both must be treated fairly, which means equally to the socialists, and share the prize.

Equality is unfair unless it is equally earned.

I've posted before about the HS student my wife and i mentor through our church. He is poor. Lives in a trailer, can't afford his computer so we bought it. Can't afford internet service so we pay for it. He gets help from others as well.

I told him that his life is tougher than most. No whining, don't want to hear it. I told him he can complain and say how unfair everything is and in twenty years he'll be on welfare living in a subsidized trailer like he is now.

HIs HS is fairly affluent for this area. Lots of professor's kid who have fancy clothes, fancy cell phone (his runs out of money at the end of each month) and parents who drop the kids off in mercedes. He takes the bus.

I told him he's starting behind where the "rich kids" got to start from. Get over it. He told me once a few years ago that his rec basketball league had a team with some rich kids that had fancy warm up uniforms and he hated them for that. I asked him why he hated the kids who are doing the same thing he wants to do... Should they not have nice things to spare his feelings?

I told him of REAL poverty i saw in south america and the carribean and told them kids there would love to have a trailer with a toilet and running water.

Stop whining.

This kid will go to college. (Or i'll kill him.) He has ability and drive and a good heart. But no father and no money and a mom who works sometimes and cannot afford a car or a computer.

It's not fair.

Deal with it.

His life is his responsibility. It will turn out well because of the work he put in, not because the government assigned him a successful life.