Spot on!
Exactly. It's not a "pie" that's gone when everyone takes their piece. The brilliance of a free market economy is that private individuals create uncapped wealth.
The problem is that these days too many of the bankers and CEOs are winners at the crony capitalism game, gamblers whose risks are underwritten by the taxes of the poor working suckers in the middle and for all their talk, Obama and his associates are right in the middle in subsidizing these overpaid leeches.
They don’t want income equality. Equality means equal. The same. That means that I should get the same amount as deblasio and pelosi. Benefits too. Also, corzine bloomberg winfrey dodd and soros have to give up their fortunes and put the money in my bank account. Gotta be equal.
All the yakking by leftists about “inequality” simply means they haven’t figured out enough ways to steal money from the producers and give to their leech constituency. Certainly, the last thing all limousine libs want is to be on the same economic rung as the “poor and oppressed” the people they say they love but most likely can’t stand being around. So many libs face that contradiction...they don’t like “inequality”, but they sure hate being poor. I guess it’s not much fun being schizophrenic.
Absolutly nothing, I’ve worked damn hard to be better off than most!
Communism is all about ending inequality. Since inequality is the natural state of man, government must be developed to force the equalization.
Since it is not possible to raise the quality level of the masses, it is necessary to decrease the quality of the exceptional. A looter such as Barack Obama chafes at being an unequal and institutes tyranny to pretend he has raised his own level upward
Our problem is not income inequality. It is much, much worse. We have seen the left destroy our churches, destroy kids chances by throwing God out of the schools and the public and we should not wonder why things are so bad. We have many more high school drop outs, and; high school has been dumbed down. We have more and more people dependent on the government for a section 8 roof over their head, health insurance, EBT cards, etc. Obama and the left tells these folks they are victims. The truth is they quit on life. People refuse to accept personal responsibility for their own actions. Until these handouts stop-more and more will strive towards qualifying for the easy way out of life. Obama wants more and more dependent on GOV. That keeps Dems in power.
Democrat-liberal-socialist want equality of results without equality of effort.
Early in our American experience, treatises were written identifying liberty as varying inversely with equality.
Too many people associate inequality with prejudice or unjust circumstances.
It’s sloppy thinking by those who seek to steal the rewards of others with criminal intent, but they linger in their thinking to the point of believing their criminality is just, to avoid changing their thinking.
I would prefer that they read/focus on Romans chapter 1 vs.18-32 where Paul spoke to the Romans. It seems fitting as Obama and pals have ruined our military with LGBT fornicators, and; we have judges who make decisions that not a single founding father of this nation would agree that he intended such in the constitution.
God hates inequality? No kidding? The same God who authored this commandment: “You shall not envy?” That tells me God knew there would always be inequality of income and result. So did Jesus, when he said we would always have the poor with us. Their remedy for inequality and envy is simply not to allow the emotion to control one’s thinking.
It’s time Christians recognized Jim Wallis as a false teacher, and label him as such whenever his name comes up.
There are two circumstances to inequality, one of which is fair, and the other of which is unfair.
Unfair inequality results in the unequal application of the law, basically one law for the rich, and another for the everyone else. It also means that the wealthy, and their organizations, have unequal access to government, as well as unfair support from government.
Finally, it means that the wealthy use government to both sustain and increase their wealth *at the expense* of everyone else. We often call this “cronyism”.
Socialists pretend that wealth itself is to blame for this unfairness, but it is not. The vast majority of the wealthy are content with what they earn being theirs, and do not seek to either “keep others down”, or to use their power in government to subsidize the increase of their wealth. In fact, they are more than happy that others are also prosperous.
What *is* to blame for unfair inequality is the attitude of some of the wealthy, that because of their wealth, they are an hereditary elite, deserve the reins of power, and they are willing to socially experiment with the lives of others, as well as to try and forcibly “keep them down”.
In the extreme, such people do not enjoy the richness of their lives, unless they live on an island of prosperity surrounded by a sea of misery and poverty. Their caviar is less fresh, and their Champagne less bubbly, if there are people they think of as inferior enjoying their lives as well.
Such people are “pigs”, amoral creatures, and downright vicious ones. They are the repulsive character of true inequality, and deserve no sympathy for their neuroses, vices, and oppressive attitude towards others.
Almost everything the government does are dumb things or really dumb things. Obama is stuck in the second area.
Equality of opportunity is wonderful. Equality of results is unachievable.
Democrats hope the inequality song reaches to the top of the chart for the next two election hey it’s a great detour from the truth and fact issues.