Posted on 04/27/2014 6:58:17 AM PDT by Usagi_yo
I specifically remember a tape of 0bama saying, in 2009, “I am the President of the United States. No one should make more than I do.”
And here we are.
You won’t find that tape anymore.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne.
As I have been reading up on Éttiene de la Boétie — from your profile.
Yep. That’s the elephant in the room that nobody wants to acknowledge.
Maybe we should leave the conclusions about what he's written to those who've actually read his book.
You want to hear some personal history? I come from a family seven kids. My father was the sole breadwinner, and my mother stayed home to take care of us kids. We were poor when I was growing up. Now, I have two sisters who are worth more than a million working for one of those huge, evil corporations. I have two brothers who are close to that or well-off. My wife and I are doing quite well despite both of us both of being near broke twenty years ago.
My brothers and sisters and my wife and I are hardly in the 1%. But we've done very well in this country. So have many millions of other Americans who grew up poor or with few resources. People like Piketty would like to wreck the system that made the average American more well-off than 99% of the world's population. So don't try to tell me a tiny pct. of the country have all the money. Because that's simply not true.
Marx and Engels love child.
Typical of leftist analysis, this is firmly rooted in the assumption that it is fundamentally wrong that someone else has something that I don't. What the left refuses to recognize is that envy, which underlies every willful sin, is universally a part of fallen human nature (they don't believe in the Fall) and it is the fatal flaw in every human conceived economic system from communism and socialism to unrestrained free-market capitalism.
Inequality gets worse in any system. On the right the inequality is without question in wealth. But on the left the inequality is in power. In every case there is a group of elites whose wealth and/or power continues to grow, while those without those things continue to become poorer and less powerful.
So, is Piketty's solution, a world-wide wealth tax, a real answer to the problem? Of course not. The economic disruption that would occur simply sets the stage for chaos and devastation, opening the door to a global totalitarian regime. Good luck with that. Rather than wealth, the coin of that realm will be power, with an equally lopsided set of haves and have nots.
"You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God." James 4:2
“You desire but do not have, so you kill.”
The first premise in Buddhism. We suffer and cause suffering because we desire.
That’s why Christian Buddhists Rock.
FMCDH(BITS)
Just curious, how did that happen? (and no, I don't want your SS#)
FMCDH(BITS)
I’m no expert in Buddhism, though I do know that this sounds similar, but they are quite different. The Bible does not advocate the cessation of desire in and of itself. Desire is a God-given part of our personality. In fact it is a part of what it means to be created in His image, He has desires. We have desire for for relationship, for love, for food, for many things. All those desires are good when they are reflections of our most important desire, the desire to know and be known by God. Mere cessation of desire will not lead to that.
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