Posted on 02/13/2018 6:23:13 AM PST by C19fan
Yeah, the most famous leftists, none of them redistribute their wealth to the downtrodden. Al Gore, the Clintons, the Obamas.... NEVEAH. Even the top Soviets never gave up their dachas or even their toilet paper.
Leftism is a pyramid scheme, not a philanthropy.
Canada Bill Smith’s American cousin.
Communism - Wealth cannot be created, it can only be stolen. If someone has wealth then they or their parents must have stolen it. It can’t be that they created it, that’s not one of the options. So, wealth is in and of itself evidence that a crime has been committed and wealthy people are criminals. (Wealthy people are defined as anyone who has more money than another person.)
Everyone should have the same! Well, I guess the leaders can have a bit more. They have worked the hardest for the greater good. And maybe some of their good friends. Oh, and their best workers. Maybe not as much but a little bit. But everyone else should be equally happy! Which, I suppose is no different than equally miserable. Nevertheless, Power to the People!
As always, nothing is stopping leftists from re-distributing their own wealth. I doubt they will.
They are college students.
THEY have no wealth.
They are going to college on mommy and daddy's dime.
IF...they actually had any wealth and "shared" it like they say...then they wouldn't be going to Columbia.
They'd be stuck going to the local community college.
They should take their tuition money and give it to the poor—then they can join the homeless living on street corners...social justice, ya know...
Perhaps this explains why so many leftists are calling Trump mentally ill and also anyone who disagrees with them????
Action follows rhetoric.
This article has nothing to do with libertarians. You posted the wrong link, if that’s what you wanted. You need https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10504
I have to admit, if you look at Libertarianism in pure form, it means no government -
I have friends who are farmers in Iowa.
Farm land is going for $10k an acre.
If your not farming 1000 acres, your about wasting your time.
A new combine will cost over $250k.
At least 2 tractors will cost another $250k.
Add other field equipment, grain bins and misc. and you have another $250-$500k.
Come April it becomes a dash to get into the fields after the snow melts and the ground thaws and dries.
Come the beginning of summer, you're thinking about getting irrigation going.
July and August, your looking at harvesting oats and wheat and baling straw.
Come October, your harvesting field corn and soy beans.
Go into farm country in October and see the lights in the field at 11 pm to midnight. The same guys are up at 6 am to get it again.
Crops too wet?
Fire up the grain dryer.
Talk about a utility bill ....
What's not mentioned is a late frost, or summer storm that wipes out a crop.
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Now, let's talk about doctors and healthcare.
BEFORE a doctor ever starts college, he needs to kick a$$ in high school, just to be accepted into a GOOD college.
From there the hopeful doctor needs to kick a$$ in college, just to get accepted into med school.
4 years of college.
4 years of med school.
2 more years to specialize.
Then there is internship/residency.
My ortho spent 12 years before being able to get into private practice.
I haven't even mentioned COST.
$40-$50k a year now for a good college/med school.
WHILE the future doctor is busy GOING to school, THEY AREN'T working, or
EARNING a living or
LIVING a lifestyle.
Unlike the slackers who complain about them.
My dentist told me, it costs her $14k a month BEFORE the first patient ever walks through the door.
Whether a dentist or a doctor,
There is ALWAYS reading and workshops to go to, to keep up on the latest advances and techniques.
My ortho schedules surgeries one day a week.
He gets in between 4 and 5 am
And works 12-16 hours.
The following day, he's not in the office.
He's usually visiting patients in the hospital.
Office hours are usually 2 & 1/2 days a week.
The OTHER 2 & 1/2 are for surgery and follow ups.
Last thing a doctor wants to say is "oops".
For MOST people, what does an oops at work actually mean???
Them first....
When my smart kid was in school, she would learn the material quickly. So the teacher had her spend the period tutoring the slower kids, rather than covering more advanced material. We finally decided to homeschool.
Knew a guy who did that in the sixties while at Yale. Gave away his share of the fam fortune. His whole inheritance.
Life never really worked out for him.
Here the kids in Middle school are given tons of seat work, no lectures or educating, and if they don’t finish it, they have to do it on top of their homework.
Easy to fall behind.
Hate the fact that my property taxes support this impoverished learning environment.
"Withdraw from Christendom the Bible, the Church with its sacraments and ministry, and Christian morality and hopes, and aspirations for time and eternity; repeal all the laws that are founded in the Christian Scriptures; remove the Christian humanities in the form of hospitals and asylums, and reformatories and institutions of mercy utterly unknown to unchristian countries; destroy the literature, the culture, the institutions of learning, the art, the refinement, the place of woman in her home and in society, which owe their origin and power to Christianity; blot out all faith in Divine Providence, love, and righteousness; turn back every believer in Christ to his former state; remove all thought or hope of the forgiveness of sins by a just but gracious God; erase the name of Christ from every register it sanctifies—in a word annihilate all the legitimate and logical effects of Christianity in Christendom—just accomplish in fact what multitudes of gifted and learned minds are wishing and trying to accomplish by their science, philosophy, and criticism, and what multitudes of the common people desire and seek, and not only would all progress toward and unto perfection cease, but not one of the shining lights of infidelity would shine much longer. Yes, the bitterest enemies of this holy and blessed religion, owe their ability to be enemies to its sacred revelations - to the inspiration and sublimity of that faith which reflects its glories on their hostile natures. They live in the strength of that which they would destroy. They are raised to their seats of opportunity and power by the grace of Him they would crucify afresh; and is it to be thought that they are stronger than that which gives them strength? Can it be supposed that a religion which civilizes and subdues, and elevates and blesses will succumb to the enmities it may arouse and quicken in its onward march? Are we to tremble for the ark of God when God is its upholder, and protector, and preserver?” - Dr. Benjaming W. Arnett, St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio, Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, November 1876. Arnett's "Sermon" is available in the "Library of Congress - Historical Collections" - "African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection," 1820-1920; American Memory, Washington, DC.
To go along with your basic premise, I’ve heard it said that the differerence between a socialist and a sociopath is only that of a few letters.
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