Posted on 03/02/2014 5:38:45 AM PST by reaganaut1
That was the first thing I thought of as well when I read this article.
I know that I shouldn’t expect more from liberals, after all, when they view any issue under the sun, their analysis and understanding is often miles wide and nanometers deep.
I had a conversation with a friend recently, and I don’t really regard him as liberal per se, but he does have some liberal tendencies in various places. One of them has to do with money, which I don’t really understand.
It’s very difficult for me to understand, because he’s hard worker, he has a house, he gets to go on fairly expensive vacations, so he isn’t offering this viewpoint on the basis of his own experience.
We were having a discussion one day, and it involved some wealthy person. He began making statement after statement about the wealth that this person had accumulated. He said it was too much, said he didn’t deserve it, and so on.
I felt it necessary to point out the dangers inherent in his line of thinking. Here he is, pointing his finger at some guy who owns enough to buy his own private jet and yacht, someone whose wealth is far beyond anything we could reasonably hope to make, so the difference in wealth is significant. I said to him “You have to be careful about that. You’re looking at this guy who makes a boatload of money and saying it’s more than he needs, it’s unfair, or whatever. The problem with taking that stance, is that no matter how much, or how little money you have, it’s always going to be more than somebody else may have. If you think it’s fine to point your finger at someone who, in your words, has more money than they need or deserve, you better be prepared for somebody to point their finger you and say the exact same thing.”
That’s the problem right there. Once you go down that road, there’s no stopping. I was astounded to hear this coming out of his mouth, because he didn’t seem to understand that he could be the target of someone else because he owns his own house, and goes on vacations several times a year that most people would consider extravagant to some degree.
And that’s the issue with a lot of issues that liberals have opinions on. They seem incapable of reading the sign on their own back.
It’s almost hilarious, because many liberals, if subjected to that finger point of entry would be genuinely astonished and would say something like “Me? I’m not rich…” without thinking for even one second that someone else might view them as wealthy.
Damned spell check. ENVY, darn it, ENVY
Depends. If you're a Democrat, the above is very likely true.
Published in a paper devoted to fomenting envy.
I noticed the irony of that as well.
It’s not envy, it’s hatred. Not of the megabucks Hollywood types, it’s hatred of those that Make and those that Take. The Takers would burn down their neighbors house because they are living well and working hard to provide better for their families. The Takers hate all who are not miserable and dependent, and if you are living better by your hard work and sacrifice— you don’t deserve it. I’ve heard it with my own ears from family and others. The Takers feel justified in any thing that takes away from YOU, they believe that you deserve to be miserable, and ANYTHING that hurts you gives them joy.
That reminds me of my sister She thinks rich people should be heavily taxed and the money used for causes she (my sister) believes in, because the rich guy has so much more than he needs, he “won’t miss it.” I try to tell her that to some people, a middle-class American like her is “rich.” If those people could vote for a politician who’d promise to take $20 out of my sister’s purse and give it to them, they would sure vote for that person! And they’d justify it by saying, “Oh, she’ll never miss it.” Well, maybe she’d miss the twenty dollars and maybe she wouldn’t, but that’s not the point. The point is, it’s theft, it’s covetousness, it’s just fundamentally wrong.
There is a reason why envy is considered a deadly sin. Yet, we have politicians whose sole tactics are to instill envy in their supporters against those who has been financially successful.
None of the seven deadly sins are ‘fun’. They all lead to death - of the soul or even of the body.
I’m with you, Livius. Plus, Putin can see Obama for the little, self-serving, professorial pretender he is.
A bit of humor here - I was searching for a bit of Easter humor to fill in a space of a newsletter I was finishing yesterday. I found “Everything I need to Know I Learned From the Easter Bunny”. Look it up - hilarious.
Re: ENVY - “Keep your paws out of other people’s jellybeans” and this one, “The grass is always greener in your neighbor’s Easter basket.”
Thanks for the laugh!!
Half-Black Plague. That’s good.
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