These rat leftists want the few of us that work to survive to
share in the misery of the lazy, welfare bilking inner
city filth. It’s what they consider “fair”.
To Liberals: Equal Opportunity = Equal Outcome.
I truly hate the word “FAIR”.
Nothing says commie more than “fair”.
Fair involves equality or the perception of equality.
Equality ends at birth. From that point events, destiny and initiative control. One who chooses to be lazy and likes being lazy will always be inferior to one who is not lazy.
A large proportion of the population has chosen to be lazy. They become unequal and as time goes by, the inequality grows.
Fairness becomes the rationalization for creating equality. Fairness is a political class warfare doctrine to create pseudo equality. Those who loudly shout the doctrine should be feared and severely control. They are public enemies.
But there’s nothing unfair simply in making more money through productive work. People have a range of talents and ambitions. Some will serve consumers better than others and therefore make more money.
What if more money is made by giving political donations in order to get government money like Solyndra? The writer means well but make the assumption that we have a free market. As long as the government is allowed to interfere, many undeserving scum will make big bucks while hard working honest people will get stomped down by the government.
“Fair” is a low standard; justice is what we should be striving for. Solomon dividing the baby was “fair”; identifying the real mother was justice.
Fairness as a goal allows the Kenyan to spread your wealth around; justice prevents this theft.
Obama and his fellow so-called "progressives" have redefined perfectly good words to mean what their little band of tyrants want them to mean.
The "fairness" America's Founders and Framers of its Constitution understood was a fairness that provided indivdual liberty, equality before the law, and protection from the coercive power of government officials.
In order to enlighten what Thomas Jefferson called "the American mind" of today to the Founding generation's wisdom and reasoning on their strong Constitutional limits protecting "the People's" rights to property, a reading of the following words of John Adams might be in order. They can be found and downloaded from here.
"Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free." (Underlining added for emphasis)
After reading Adams' words, and seeing what has happened today,can we doubt the wisdom of his words?
If future generations are to enjoy freedom, then America needs leadership focusing on restoring a sense of a fairness which recognizes that what is unlawful for individuals to do to one another without punishment should be unlawful for collections of individuals (called politicians) to do to the rest of society.