Posted on 02/21/2020 4:53:43 AM PST by grundle
Below are two videos. In the first, Michael Bloomberg talks about farmers. In the second, Paul Harvey talks about farmers.
Please watch both videos. Then please vote for which person’s comment you think is more accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKDA3uR-ml8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRDaPEaDJ7E
He has not progressed much from that.
Well done! Thanks!!
That is brilliant! Thanks for posting.
I still miss Paul Harvey. He was the greatest. With all of our tech and podcasts and YouTube videos, nobody could do it like Paul Harvey. And all on simple AM radio before Rush.
I too miss Paul Harvey.
I have a feeling those falling for Bloomturd take the food in the grocery stores for granted, in that they have little knowledge as to just where it comes from, other than a large delivery truck.
I like my wife’s statement. Just take their worthless a$$es out of the city and put them into the wilderness and see if they can survive.
Here’s some quotations from a Democrat of note, Thomas Jefferson:
https://thebackyardprovider.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/
“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1785.
“The pursuits of agriculture [are] the surest road to affluence and best preservative of morals.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Blair, 1787.
“Agriculture… is the first in utility, and ought to be the first in respect.” –Thomas Jefferson to David Williams, 1803.
“Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.” –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia
“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”
And we all know they wouldn’t.
My favorite Bloomberg video is him stating as matter of fact that taxes on the poor are regressive, but it’s a good thing, because they make the wrong choices when it comes to spending their money. They’ll spend their money on things that are bad for them. He says without batting an eye that he wants them to love longer lives by having fewer sugary drinks, in order to curb obesity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkf_Wc_WaCU
He is exactly the sort of tyrant that C.S. Lewis warned about:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
Mark
READY MADE and Devastating campaign commercial.
I've always been in favor of a sales tax over an income tax. The left screams that a sales tax is a regressive tax and I have no problem with that. You look at first responder costs and usage and the bottom 20 percent account for 80 percent of costs associated with first responders. The bottom 20 percent also use health care way out of proportion to their numbers.
I can’t help but think of Charlie Daniels’ tribute to the farmers. “American Farmer”
“American Farmer”
See that man in the field over yonder
With dirt on his hands and a loan on his back
He’s the man that puts the food on your table
He’s the man that grows the clothes on your back
Were running a mile out of the house he was born in
Tending on the sidelines and watching him fall
Selling his land to the big corporations
What you gonna do when they get it all
He’s been rolled for sure treated like a outlaw
Turned down sold out, put out to graze
He’s been pushed you know when he can push no more
It gets a little harder everyday
He’s the American farmer
And he damn hard to beat
Better wake up America, wake up America
Coz if the man don’t work then the people don’t eat
He’s sending the high tech stuff of to Russia
I can’t figure what where doing it for
We should be sending the wheat and meat and cotton
Coz a loaf of bread never started no war
See that man in the middle of city
Eatin’ outta garbage cans, sleepin’ in the street
See that baby, moping in the kitty
To make ends meet
It’s a damn disgrace on the face of America
Hungry people everywhere you go
Children in Africa starving by the fields
While the land lays fallow and the banks foreclose
He’s the American farmer
And he damn hard to beat
Better wake up America, wake up America
Coz if the man don’t work then the people don’t eat
He’s an American, he’s an American, he’s an American, American farmer
Never him through
Coz if he goes down swinging
You better know where gonna go down swinging to
He’s the American farmer
And he damn hard to beat
Better wake up America, wake up America
Coz if the man don’t work then the people don’t eat
I said the people don’t eat
I said the people don’t eat
Thanks for your kind words.
Thanks.
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