Posted on 09/09/2015 11:43:39 AM PDT by tang-soo
"You want everybody educated to their potential. You want people to reach their potential. That still won't work for some people in a highly developed market system.
I mean if this were a sports-based system, you could give me a PhD in football, and I could practice eight hours a day, and I might be able to carry the water from, not onto the field, but from the locker room to the bench. There's just some people don't fit well into a highly skilled market-based economy.
They're perfectly decent citizens. We'll send them off to Afghanistan, but they are not going to command a big price
full article here.
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.” —John Kerry
Needs to be put down.
The new Siberia? The new gulags?
These progressives are insane! The very idea that Buffet or any American citizen is able to be shipped off and “SOLD!”
This day in age it confounds me as to where the outrage is.
Guys like Buffett are why I’ve become convinced that this country WILL vote in Communism in the not too distant future.
Who’s “we,” you arrogant a-hole?
Democrats think of other people like dirt.
“These progressives are insane!”
And they’re not even bothering to cover it up any more. That should prove that they’re not worried about us lessers interrupting their plans.
Yeah, and we could put them in “gated neighborhoods” and call them ghettos! How very 1930/40’s.
Remember, the Germans spent a few years deomonizing those “Juden” business owners and blamed them for the terrible German economy. Eventually, those “Juden” just didn’t fit the economy anymore and had to be sent off to Poland....
Is he speaking of Obama? Because all these people in DC definitely do not fit.
And certainly the MSM will note Buffet is a Democrat and a supporter of Witch Clinton and Obama.
out.of.touch.rich.guy.
Not out of touch because it is happening. Our best are getting killed in foreign wars.
I think I remember this from 1968. Go to school or knock up your girl friend or go to Nam. I knew I’d seen this bullshit before.
Demonization of the military personnel done backhandedly by the ice cream cone licker Butt-Fett.
You've hit on a very important point. While in service, I was speaking to a British Officer who said that a lot of the problems in England can be traced back to the elimination of so many young men of promise due to two world wars.
We may be seeing the same thing here. Those who believe in something other than themselves are going off to war, some to never return. Meanwhile, those who mainly believe in themselves are staying behind, moving up the chain, and watching out for number one.
When our guys come home, they should say no thanks to the medications for “emotional distress” the government is handing out, and run for Congress.
The “send them to Afghanistan” is obviously offensive, but also inaccurate. Military service leaves many vets with skills, perspective, experience, and funds for more education — that is very advantageous for valuable work in a market economy.
The comment distracts from an important truth: large swaths of the US population do not have work habits, skills, and backgrounds needed to contribute value in a global market. Too many Americans cannot produce enough value to pay for their own lives, much less contribute to the common well-being, even if they wanted to. The political class’s economic response to this is unsustainable (taxing huge profits from global production and trade, that along with massive borrowing, finances welfare benefits for the non-productive), and will lead to Greek-like debt crises.
By the nature of humanity, there will always be many who are not intelligent, talented, adaptive, motivated, rained, etc. Some of these bums, but many are good people who deserve a decent life. Traditional economies have productive and respectable things for them to do. A highly regulated economy (which in the US makes the cost of low-producing employing prohibitive), based on globalized production and domestic distribution, not nearly so much.
Trump’s slogan hints at looking for solutions. I hope he will assemble a specific program — American will not be great again until this problem is solved.
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