Peter vs. Paul: Is America About to Split?

North Star Writers Group ^ | October 27, 2008 | David Karki

[GOPJ]

Jeez, this is just like zimbabwe. I got an idear, let’s kill all the farmers, rape all their daughters, and give the land to people who don’t know how to farm.

Well, awful as it sounds, it does spread the wealth from those who earned it to those who didn't. Too bad it never works for long. Once the unearned wealth has been spent - and there's no one left to steal from - the country goes broke.

Well, until the UN (defenders of dictators world-wide) gets into the picture - and then we'll "help" the starving poor...

I personally wish that one time it didn't work this way. One time, the original people from that land could "take back their land" and work hard and build prosperity. But it never happens. Perverse incentives and all... My mother used to say, "good revolutionaries seldom make good rulers" and I believe she was right.

[ichabod1]

The farming is just a great example. It isn’t as easy as it might look.

[BuffaloJack]

> Jeez, this is just like zimbabwe. I got an idear, let’s kill all the farmers, rape all their daughters, and give the land to people who don’t know how to farm.
That’s just about what happened when the commies took over in Vietnam in 1975. My father-in-law was a farmer, he had a couple acres of rice paddies. The government divided his farm into 10 pieces. He grew enough crops on his parcel to feed his family and have a surplus to sell. The government took his surplus away from him to feed the people farming the other 9 plots. After a few years it sunk in that he only needed to grow enough for his immediate family’s needs. The people on the other 9 plots, as a result, went hungry.
Communism and socialism does not work. The first thing it does it destroy any incentive to work.

[GOPJ]

My father-in-law was a farmer, he had a couple acres of rice paddies. The government divided his farm into 10 pieces. He grew enough crops on his parcel to feed his family and have a surplus to sell. The government took his surplus away...

After a few years it sunk in that he only needed to grow enough for his immediate family’s needs. The people on the other 9 plots, as a result, went hungry. Communism and socialism does not work. The first thing it does it destroy any incentive to work.

You're right. There was a time when I could look at the people who believed in "redistribution" and feel that at least they had their hearts in the right place. But I don't feel that way anymore. There's been too many examples in the world to show it doesn't work. That it casues misery and poverty.

Now we call "moral hazard" but it's the same con it always was - a free lunch - an unearned piece of the pie - envy - grievance. Your father in law learned the hard way... I hope the people of this country don't have to...

[polymuser]

We'll not split, be we will finally get our cancer looked at.

[Ronin]

Call it succession, call it partition, call it balkinization... I have seen this coming since the Clinton years.

The fear and loathing is too deep on both sides. The leftist parasites and the media want a free love socialist utopia where everyone gets ‘their fair share’ whether they are willing to work for it or not.

The people who work for a living and want to better themselves and their families on the right, don’t. Only, they’re the ones who grow the food, build the cars, run the factories, do all the little things that create the wealth that the leftists want to steal.

And it’s weird how it’s almost become so totally balanced population-wise, even though leftist support is only strong in the cities while conservative support is strongest everywhere else.