Posted on 05/21/2012 5:04:08 AM PDT by SJackson
you are correct, that is what I tried to imply in my last sentence but I was not clear enough obviously. Thanks for the clarification.
Really??!!
Maybe this statement would be more accurate (certainly, more honest) if he said the ‘hard working’ few!
Luck is no more a prerequisite for success in America than it is anywhere else on earth. If it WAS, everyone breaking the law, risking death and worse to get here would stay put in their homeland and cash in on their ‘luck’... THERE!
Success in any country is all about personal autonomy within the law, opportunity and very hard work!!!
What "O" and other Liberals refuse to recognize is that here in the U.S, we have MORE and GREATER personal autonomy (guaranteed) and unlimited opportunity along with ready and abundant rewards of every kind for those who are willing to work hard !!! PERIOD... If it was only about luck, we'd all be sitting at home waiting for someone to knock on the door, hand us a million bicks and say: 'Here, go have a ball!!'
Robert Heinlein
A radio evangelist of a bygone era, Herbert Armstrong, used to frequently say that there were, broadly speaking, two ways of life- that being the way of ‘give’ and the way of ‘get’.
A system based on the voluntary and peaceful free exchange the economic analogy of the way of ‘give’. In this case that each party to an exchange must give sufficient value to the counter-parties that they freely agree to a mutually satisfying exchange.
Economist Franz_Oppenheimer observed that, broadly speaking, two ways to gain the wealth of other- that being what he called the ‘economic means’ and the other the ‘political means’. [1]
“There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtain the necessary means for satisfying his desires. These are work and robbery, one’s own labor and the forcible appropriation of the labor of others.”
Free people who are committed to live at peace with their neighbors and within the rule of law can only gain the things they need to sustain their lives by creating value to exchange with others. This is work. States on the other hand, must expropriate wealth. As George Washington warned, the State is only power. The State simply uses its power and monopoly on the use of deadly force to take what it needs from those within its grasp.
Having said that, to assert that ‘Economic Growth Can’t Just Be for the Lucky Few’ defies the reality of human abilities. Some people are just born with more economically valuable skills than others are. That doesn’t make them any less human. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love them any less. That doesn’t justify treating them differently. The simple truth is that I cannot tell a joke as well as (pick your favorite here), or I cannot act as well as (pick your favorite here) and I cannot dream up as valuable a business idea as (pick your favorite here).
But what I can do, what value I can create, what things I can make and build are mine, and I have just as much an unalienable right to the fruit of my labor as some famous rock group who fight enforce their copyrights or some famous actor who fights to stop pirating of their movies.
When government adopts the idea that ‘Economic Growth Can’t Just Be for the Lucky Few’, then government gets to decide who wins and who loses. WE DID NOT GIVE OUR GOVERNMENT THAT ENUMERATED POWER! And if our government assumes it has that power, then the several States must convene a convention to make it clear they don’t.
The Apostle Paul stated that people cannot be godly and live at the expense of others. He also said that a person cannot be godly if he does not take care of his own family. Government has interposed itself as the arbiter of economic values. Allowing government to do that results in an economy that is base on the ‘political means’ instead of the ‘economic means’, on the way of get rather on the way of give.
[1] http://files.libertyfund.org/pll/quotes/150.html
There is no reason why Africa should not be feeding itself and exporting food again. There is no reason for that.”...Yes, there is o stupid one. It’s called communism and tribalism. Something you want introduced to US.
Learned years ago: Luck is disguised as Hard Work!
He who works hard deserves the rewards of that work.
“From each according to his ability to each according to his need” - (Karl Marx)
They are your family.
Hey America, wake up. You want a "leader" around that tries to make you feel greedy and envious? Greed and envy, hmm, seems I've seen those two on a list somewhere before...
If you took what Moochelle spent on her 17 faboo vacations, and invested it in the sub-Saharan hell hole of your choice, you’d be in a better position to lecture at us, Skippy.
What’s next? A remake of “The Naked Prey”? Set in Chicago?
Guess that question never crossed the razor-sharp minds of the members of the journalistic community...go figure.
Cut them a check from your personal funds, Zero. Otherwise; you are a hypocrite.
Guess that question never crossed the razor-sharp minds of the members of the journalistic community...go figure.
Cut them a check from your personal funds, Zero. Otherwise; you are a hypocrite.
Oh great, now he’s done gone and elevated himself to savior of the whole world and not just America.
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Yes. He’ll be evolving into the starchild next week.
Obama thinks everyone with money got their’s the same way he got his.
This is breathtaking. We are borrowing 1 and a half trillion dollars a year to get by but we "have enough" growth that we can start bailing out Africa despite the thousands and thousands of Americans who are struggling to keep their house and worrying how they are going to feed their families.
Yes there is. It happens when we have Black "Leaders".......
That's where we've gone in America, too, with the white-guilt and "whitey owes you" panderers....
They are only "sometimes" hungry? Shoot, I'm hungry every day, these people must be eating good. I assume he meant to say that "starvation is sometimes a reality".
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