Posted on 09/08/2009 8:26:38 AM PDT by La Lydia
Much attention has been paid of late to whether the United States is trending toward socialism. Alleviating socioeconomic differences through the federal government's active intervention in the economy is a common aim of all socialist movements. Nonetheless, most champions of the less privileged have never made a practical effort to mitigate the social differences caused by the inequitable distribution of what, nowadays, is a factor with an enormous socioeconomic impact: beauty. It is unacceptable for physical attractiveness to be the birthright of a very small proportion of the population -- I estimate 10 percent worldwide at most -- when the vast majority of us must go though life looking, shall we say, anti-aesthetic. For this reason, I suggest the civilized nations of the world consider incorporating a few policies based on the most traditional economic principles of socialism:
First, political constitutions should define beauty as a "strategic natural resource." They should state that citizens may not be discriminated against on the basis of their physical attractiveness ...governments should nationalize beauty industries in order to ensure the supply of low-priced makeup, anti-wrinkle creams, aesthetic plastic surgery, etc...
By law, companies should be obliged to guarantee minimum employment quotas for less attractive people...
The importation of "models" from countries with a high proportion of attractive people should be prohibited....
...it would be important to hunt down and punish those people who discriminate against ugly people. For example, the doormen at fashionable clubs...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Please, TAKE THEM!
I think if Babs Boxer (”You don’t mind I call ya BABS do ya?) exfoliated, there would be nothing but a skull behind all that.
Pure fishwrap. Why isn’t the WaPo outa bidniz yet?
Great news for me!
If this is enacted, I’m highly employable.....
“Much attention has been paid of late to whether the United States is trending toward socialism.”
Where have you been???? Socialism has been building in this country for almost a hundred years!!!
The writer lives in Ecuador, as noted. That is where he has been.
Keyword: satire
Too Subtle.
Apparently. He is a free-market economist poking fun at socialism. He could have written a similar column about athletic prowess. I think he is clever, but then, I have a sense of humor.
He should move from whatever SA hell-hole he lives in.
Paladin, he is an Ecuadorian. Why should he leave his country, which needs people like him who can think straight, especially when it is in the clutches of the likes of Leftist Rafael Correa? Where do you propose that he go? Have you ever heard of a book called, “Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot”? It makes hilarious fun of this kind of thinking.
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