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Originally Posted by Pete F.
You would have to ask someone else if what you think is true and why.
I'll stick with what I said previously, you can go on beating dead horses.
As long as the battle is to make sure nobody gets too much we will never win. If the lifting hand ends when you start to get above water, you will surely sink with the next wave. So after you sink a couple of times, you stay where the hand helps you. I blame that on politicians and most are guilty.
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"You would have to ask someone else if what you think is true and why."
In other words..."answering that question honestly would make my side look wrong, and I can't ever do that, so I refuse to answer..."
"As long as the battle is to make sure nobody gets too much"
That's the liberal battle, not the conservative battle. Unlike liberals, conservatives realize that wealth is not finite, it's not like a pizza. If Bill Gates earns another million today, that does not mean there's a million less for you and I to scrounge for. Stop obsessing over the wealthy. It's so pointless. Would you or I be better off, if all the billionaires never existed? Or if they become poor tomorrow?
It's not
fair that we have billionaires and poor people. But it's not sinister, either. Except for a few criminals, the rich did not become rich, by taking from the poor. They
created wealth, they didn't steal it.
You know what happens when the rich get richer? Do you think they put the money in their mattresses or bury it in their yards? Or do they spend some, invest some, save some, pay taxes with some, and give some to charity? All of which, helps the economy.
The wealthy are not causing poverty. They just aren't. Do you really not see that? Seriously? If you want what they have,
do what they did.
"If the lifting hand ends when you start to get above water"
I disagree that's happening. But not all of us need to be carried all the way back to shore by someone else. Most of us, once above water, can get ourselves to shore. That's exactly why, when Bill Clinton kicked millions of people off welfare, they didn't all starve to death - they went to work. There is incredible opportunity to be middle class in this country. It's harder than it was 40 years ago, no question. But still within reach for most of us. For those who truly can't take care of themselves, I'm happy to pay taxes for well-run programs that help them.
Stop obsessing over the wealthy. It's a terrific liberal rallying cry ,that the 1% are to blame for everything. But it's demonstrably false bullsh*t. It doesn't even come close to making any sense.
Wealth isn't finite. It's just not. If it was, GDP wouldn't ever change.