[marktwain]

The use of the word "need" grants the government total power, as the government is the only one allowed to define what is "needed" and what is not. We are a Constitutional Republic of limited government, not a Marxist society based on "To each according to his need".

[Don Corleone]

He made the social justice argument. You should be allowed to keep the wealth that you need.

Right out of Karl Marx's manifesto. Surprised? I think not.

[gunnyg]

“NEED”

Just another in the now endless list of words that are now bastardized by the “they” hordes!
Words I try not to use….

Semper Blogging!
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[trebb]

Heck, in the big picture, life is so transitory that we don't really "need" food/shelter/clothing either.

I keep telling the Leftists i work around that the more power they give to the government, the closer they come to being livestock. The progression is: Slavery, where they depend upon the government and are usually treated humanely because of the laws. Pet-hood where they become property of the government and the laws against putting them down are pretty irrelevant. Finally reaching Livestock, they exist only at the pleasure and need of the government and have as many rights as the cow that donated the flesh for that nice steak.

I usually get a bunch of empty (bovine) stares.

[Roccus]

“NEED”...wanting what someone else has worked for.

“GREED”...wanting to keep what one has worked for.

“COMPASSION”...the policy by which politicians arrange the redistribution