It doesn't surprise me that she would say that. She thinks it's a giant tip jar and all she has to do is steal from it.
Posted on 01/22/2020 3:27:05 AM PST by Kaslin
In some ways she is right. Big business and Big government go hand in hand.
These politicians see all the government contracts go out and the source of the money.
It is sad to say but 99% of the economy is government, it is not like the old days.......................
In the end, what AOC truly wants is government control.
We are already there.
Well there is one thing, the black (cash) market.
Buy 51% of the stock, vote to liquidate, make a 40% profit, lay off 500 workers and put a company town into poverty.
Didn’t say they took, but it is highly unethical.
As far as the short sales, I think that should be illegal. How do you “rent” a stock and then sell it?
The answer, of course, is an unqualified ‘no’. Just the capital investment required to produce a single car is more than a single worker could handle.
At one time we had thousands of local mutual insurance associations. What happened?
at one time ............................
No, you didn’t assert they “took” but AOC did and the poster I first addressed seems to agree with her.
AOC believes it’s better for the government to exploit all of us. It’s good to be a government crony.
I would like to hear the supreme airhead explain how the billion first came into existence to be “taken”.
You’d be better off listening to a cow passing gas than to whatever AOC says.
“That’s not the same as “taking” wealth and paying slave labor wages, which would be no wages at all, as AOC claims.”
AOC is a blithering idiot but in an honest effort to promote fairness I would point out that slaves on plantations did have food to eat and minimal clothing as well as some sort of dwelling to sleep in. Apparently AOC believes that the average worker receives no more than that hence the reference to slave labor wages. As I said, she is an idiot, or is she only PRETENDING to be an idiot to serve her purpose?
Someone should point out to her that she as a Rep. has done and will continue to do nothing, it’s her staff that do all the work while she goes out and brays like the Ass she is.
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.
The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.
The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest . . . — Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. The burden of the article is how diffuse are the inputs to make a simple item like a pencil. Of course a particular company - Eberhard Faber, in the example instance - made the pencil. But Mr. Faber did not simply speak the pencil into existence; the company has to have buildings housing machinery, and workers to operate the machines. But beyond that, the Eberhard Faber workers have to have food, shelter, and normal amenities - including those required by their families.
- socialism:
- cynicism towards society in conjunction, inherently, with naiveté towards government.
- the fatuous assumption that people who did not even attempt to “build that” can sustainably operate and maintain “that”- in the face of changing conditions - more usefully to society than the people who did “build that” can. And that “that” is the last word, and society will always need the products of “that” - and will never need any further examples of “building that” in the future.
And the same is true of the vendors who supply Eberhard Faber with the machinery they require, and all the obvious materials - wood, graphite, rubber, and the ferrule material and the enamel. All those vendors have their own equipment, workers, and supply chain. And in all cases the workers need food, shelter, and normal amenities. So although the pencil certainly does not exist without Eberhard Faber, society works together to make pencils - and everything else.
So, “You didn't build that? Somebody else made that happen?” Yes - but that “somebody else” was not government. The “somebody” was more like everybody - mostly very indirectly. It is not the government but society - as Thomas Paine points out in Common Sense, a very different thing - which makes the pencil.
Government planning is merely interference in society’s subtle workings by people who have nowhere near the competence needed to make such large decisions and be responsible for them. It is nothing more than the irresponsible separation of responsibility from authority, in violation of the first principle of good management. Improvement in efficiency via government “planning” is a paper tiger.
PING!
AOC is a puppet on the strings of the LIEberal left - Soros, Bloomberg, Sanders, ANY prominent Communist, DSA apparatchiks, etc. etc.
The more she runs her mouth, spreading her Anti-American “Democrat Socialist” BS ides, the more she begins to resemble an out of touch, insane Looney Tune character!
The American people may be stupid once or twice, but they don’t STAY stupid!
AOC and her ilk are living on borrowed time - their 15 minutes of fame ends on November 3, 2020!
It doesn't surprise me that she would say that. She thinks it's a giant tip jar and all she has to do is steal from it.
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