Posted on 09/19/2011 11:58:20 AM PDT by onona
Five Truer Comments Were Never Written. I received these via email today, and felt the calling to share. (I hope the damn thing reads well asthetically).
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody, anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Very true - all of them!
You did it ! Who knew you had it in you ??
The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.
The easiest way to solve that problem is restrict voting privledges to people who own property ... but I know this idea isn’t very popular ...
These violate the ideas and beliefs of Dear Leader. You have been reported to attackwatch.
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I like that idea a lot.
I liked it before I owned property because I saw the idiots around me who where voting.
Good idea. And I keep asking...
Why don’t we raise taxes on poor people? Seriously. We all know the surest way to DECREASE something is to INCREASE taxes on it.
Obama wants to abolish the rich. So he keeps raising taxes on them. Why not turn that around?
Nice !! That makes number.....hmm, lost count now :)
1-op good
2-i love freerepublic
Asthetically speaking, (the damn thing reads well) to me.
Now I’m blushing........
I don’t own property, but I love that idea. I know it’ll never happen, though. :-(
"From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."
In other words, we are screwed.
An old blues song asks the question, “Who’s gonna pull the wagon when everybody wants to ride?”
Ugh. We ARE screwed.
Well done.
The kenyan isn’t abolishing the rich. He is banishing them, sending them offshore, along with the jobs they support and the investment they provide. Raising the tax rates on the rich will probably engender a decrease in revenue from that quarter.
Aesthetìcally or Esthetically.
My variation of that idea is that people deriving income or subsidy directly from the government should not be able to vote for officers and issues for the level of government from which they derive their income or subsidy.
How about if you get more than 50% of your income from government, you loose the right to vote.
Exclusion for military personnel. Include the “takers” on welfare and the “fakers”, the other government workers. Also include the retirees who planned so poorly that they only have social security as income. They take out three time what they paid in.
You should not be able to vote yourself pay increases with other people’s money.
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