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Just a friendly reminder from Daniel. You can't fix what is broken when what is broken is the fix.
> The progressive mindset treats solutions as a matter of faith. If you assume that society is always on an upward track like a roller coaster that never stops climbing into the sky, then you don’t worry that your solutions will general future problems.
Like the guy trying to fix a television set with a hammer and twelve beers, the progressive review board’s conclusion is always that he didn’t hit the broken pieces of the television hard enough.
Damn you are good, Daniel...lol
It’s one of those twelve lessons in life that a kid ought to learn by age eighteen. Fixing something...sometimes isn’t a big enough deal to waste on a solution.
BTTT
Results matter in real life. Results are not relevant in Washington and most state capitals. After all, it’s not real money, it’s government money being spent. Most of the money comes from Obama’s stash.
Yep.
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One of his best!
How does he keep coming up with this stuff..Dani s Amazing!
“Ask a modern progressive to name what his politicians did wrong and the usual answer is that they weren’t radical enough. ObamaCare was bad because it wasn’t Single Payer. If it had been Single Payer, it would have been bad because of medical tourism. If a giant barbed wire fence had been set up and all the doctors rounded up into it, the complaint would be that the fence wasn’t electrified.
“Like the guy trying to fix a television set with a hammer and twelve beers, the progressive review board’s conclusion is always that he didn’t hit the broken pieces of the television hard enough.”
Great stuff!
Once core fault of libs is that they think humans are perfectable. They are not. There has to be rules and regulations to try and keep things under control knowing full well that nothing is 100% attainable.
I still remember what a friend of my father told me many years ago when I too was under the impression that every problem could be fixed, and government could do a lot to fix those problems. He simply said that often times every "solution" simply creates another problem. I argued with him that I thought society could fix everything. He just smiled at me with the wisdom of years. Of course, he was right, and I was wrong. Moral of story: try to fix things knowing that many things can't be fixed. Many things can be controlled somewhat, but fixing, making them perform the way we would like them to perform, is often not possible.
Another way of saying it is: the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
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I've read whole books by liberals that didn't contain as much wisdom as the above sentence...
You get more of what you focus on. We, as a nation, have increasingly focused on “poverty” and hardship to the point of obsession and have pored trillions of dollars after that obsession. The nmore money you soend fighty “pverty” the more you will get. Guaranteed. What you resist persists.
Good thoughts.
Wow. Just.....wow. I guess I’ve become a Greenfield Groupie.
Crimianls/socialists/totalitarians are the problem. It has been solved many times throughout history on many levels all the way down to the individual level. Millions of innocents have been slaughtered throughout history because of the problem.
It's inhuman nature to be a problem.
It seems that life works just fine without the intervention of progressives.
And they just can't accept that.
If you start with the premise that there is no God, that the universe and all things are just random occurrences, then you would have an impulse to tinker with the laws of the universe or of human nature. Try to put everything in a random universe in some sort of rational order.
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