“My point is, the social ills that are the result of having a low income are not because other people have more,” he says. “It’s because those at the bottom don’t have enough income. The resource pie is not fixed.”
Its about envy and greed - wanting something that someone else worked for.
I live in what the government calls “poverty” and I have everything I need. Home with AC, cars, Mp3 player, computer, internet, cable TV.
Good grief - I don’t want money from someone else - I have too much pride and independence.
I do not want to be beholden to anyone.
Isn't that what it really comes down to--doing as little work possible for maximum payoff?
Most of the people who live off the taxpayer teat have it far better than that and yet they still complain. You'd think that being "freed" from having the responsibility of paying for rent/mortgage, food, clothing, transportation and health care would make these parasites happy.
About envy:
Theft, destruction, murder, war, and voting Democrat are all fundamentally motivated by envy.
Greed is really an extreme form of envy. Leftists get caught up in greed far more than others. When someone accuses another of being greedy, they are usually projecting their own feelings of envy.
The evil goal of envy is not to compete and earn what someone else has, but to spoil, destroy, and ban them from having it.
When the emotion of envy transitions into action, it becomes hate. Envy and hate are closely related.
For the moment, the ideological heirs of those that believe the flames of liberty must be extinguished and the aspirations of the individual curtailed for the alleged good of humanity have grown more sophisticated in their methods of getting the people to comply with their agenda. However, as Americans draw ever closer to the breaking point of just how much they are willing to put up with as frankly we are fast approaching the threshold where there is precious little left for the state to steal, we must ask with concern: will the aspiring despots among us resort to the violent tendencies of their philosophical progenitors in the attempt to bring about socialism’s ultimate triumph?
Do the rich deserve all that money? Yes, if they came by it honestly. In America, money can be made for those of the industrious and innovative nature. Those who are not such are destined to sell their skills to best producer he can. As for the poor? "Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants; money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money.