Posted on 09/02/2014 4:21:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He was home schooled in West Virginia until high school and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College (where he was a Truman Scholar and a member of the Class of 1997), and Yale Law School (Class of 2001). After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York. He also serves on the editorial advisory board of the Ethics & International Affairs. He has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, a think tank that has been described as radical centrist in orientation.
Our “POOR” are better off than most other nations middle classes.
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
~Aristotle
One of the worst forms of stupidity is believing equal opportunity means equal results.
The worst form of stupidity is voting to make equal results mandated by law.
Teaching these things as truth takes stupidity deep into the danger zone.
Chelsea Clinton, check your privilege.
He lost me on the first sentence. "Egalitarian" is a term applied to socialist societies, not the United States of America. Liberals are always missing the distinction between equal opportunity as opposed to equal outcomes.
Jedediah, you ignorant slut, the conflict is not between equality and inequality, it’s between liberty and equality. Nowhere in our founding principles can collectivism be found. That’s Marx’s Das Capital your thinking of.
BS, what made America great is that hard work was rewarded. So people that busted their asses and had the smarts to make good decisions got ahead. Survival of the fittest. There is no such thing as equality.
The elites have a “get out of jail free” card and always have & always will.
He's right.
Black people are more equal than me. Their leaders can commit felonies and treason and suffer no consequences. Those that are inclined to riot receive little pushback. They can make martyrs of brazen thugs like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
Latin people are more equal than me. They can cross the border with impunity, receiving housing, medical care, and education for free.
Indeed, some Americans are more equal than others.
I think I am going to convert to being a libtard. Then nothing will ever be my fault ever again.
The libs think we have inequality, yet they insist on importing Mexico’s dregs, it can only get worse.
Yes. For example, they pay great sums to avoid that “diversity” they’re always so eager to force the rest of us to live with.
So true! Why, once upon a time, not too long ago, people who sat around engaging in mental masturbation instead of critical thinking leading to productive action would have starved.
some of us are more equal because we are old and wise
There are cultures that make sure the progeny are educated and can produce value that people will pay top dollar for at any cost. There are also cultures who do not value education, and their progeny fail to graduate even from high school in numbers greater than 50%. It is quite possible to earn a great living and contribute great value to society through trades such as plumbers and electricians, and many other things that can totally be done without even a high school diploma, even some high tech can be had for those dedicated enough, but the anti education cultures do not embrace these paths either. So yes, there is inequality, as some cultures contribute value to society in many different ways while other at most contribute no value, but contribute negative value. Of course there is a tiny minority who do get ridiculous perks for no contributed value (ie Chelsea Clinton), but their numbers are tiny compares to the masses, and presumably the person who pays the Chelsea believes they are getting a value from the arrangement (access to Billary).
(Sorry my command of the english language seems to die whenever I try to type on this godforsaken iphone keyboard)
You forgot the biggest one that came to my mind when talking about inequality under the law and that is politicians, liberal politicians for sure. Bill Clinton should have been fired for sexual abuse. Obama, Holder, and Hillary should be tried for treason for Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, and Bengazi, but they wont be.
There exists in our country right now one set of laws for we the people, and no set of laws for the connected political types.
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