Posted on 09/20/2014 6:09:16 AM PDT by rktman
“We already have a vastly improved education at the high school level - if the students wanted to take advantage of it. “
Amen!
“What we don’t have is a majority of the population with a desire to learn and make their own way in the world. “
Amen!
You hit it on all counts. Our school facilities are phenomenal and yet, our students treat them like playgrounds. Meanwhile, the Asians and other numerous foreigners are in class, studying, working on projects, and prepping for their future. Quite frankly, it’s no wonder they’re going forward at the speed of light.
“That’s John Galt and the Twentieth Centiry Motor Company right there. Only, in “Atlas Shrugged”, the unproductive people were not fired. They were kept on the payroll (as a kindness) and the few productive people had to work harder to support them. Bit by bit the productive people decided to be just as unproductive as the rest. John Galt was one of the few who actually “quit”.
Exactly. what was interesting, after the purges, was how many of the good people left my old company, before or after a group meeting with all of the phoney bonding bs was aimed at them.
One of my former peers quit on a tuesday, after 1 day of a 3 day bs bonding meeting after the purges. He said that he was shaving the next morning before the meeting started. He looked himself in the eyes and said to himself, “Its past time to leave!”.
He wrote a note to his boss that he was resigning that Friday. He gave the note to his room mate for the meeting to give to their boss. Then he packed up, checked out of the hotel and drove home.
When he got home, his wife looked at him, and said “If you aren’t sick, I hope that you resigned!”
He told her that he was gone from the company on Friday. She said good, and they went out for lunch and to the beach to walk and talk afterwards. He said that night both of them had a good night’s sleep, the first since the purges had started.
Thanks for posting this.
““It is much better to enact a minimum-wage law even if it deprives these unfortunates of work… better that the state should support the inefficient wholly and prevent the multiplication of the breed than subsidize incompetence and unthrift, enabling them to bring forth more of their kind.” - Royal Meeker, U.S. Commissioner of Labor, under Woodrow Wilson.”
Add abortion and basically mandatory birth control for the unfortunates, and you have the modern Democrat party in action.
“And I guarantee some foreign despot will look at America, full of lazy doped up losers, and realize that America is there for the taking.”
At first, I imagined that the next terrorist act will be at a pothead festival.
What more could a terrorist want: a group of intoxicated americans unable and unwilling to fight back.
It’s like the motto of that old sarcastic website suck.com: Gun. Fish. Barrel.
But when I thought about it further, I asked what good will that do? Terrorists want to to commit terror to anger and scare the surviving population.
Which wouldn’t happen if they took out a bunch of potheads.
Instead, if terrorists offed a pothead festival, Americans will just shrug.
most of what people do for money is pointless and irrelevant,
Most of what we do today is moving rubble...............
It really is a stunning statement.
Why more people do not know eugenics behind the ‘welfare’ system is amazing to me.
There is class warfare going on in our country, but it is the Democrats who are waging it upon the “inefficient.”
“...Prevent the multiplication of the breed,” can one even imagine that being said today? Meeker wasn’t talking about white people in this statement. They knew/know that having a minimum wage excludes the low-skilled from jobs, raising it excludes even more “unfortunates.”
The very idea about “Feeling good about being unemployed,” is counter-intuitive to one’s own basic survival instinct. And yet millions go against that instinct every day, why can’t they see their prison?
I head a corporate tax department at a multinational. We all work hard to keep up with both compliance with tax law and compliance with government and accounting requirements for public companies, while also assisting our management in minimizing the company's worldwide tax liabilities. Without our compliance contributions, our company could not stay open and supply its goods to customers.
I agree with a previous poster: anyone who calls us unproductive has a lot to learn about our free enterprise system. If you want to reduce our numbers, work to reduce government regulation of our companies.
But does it create wealth in the same way that a dairy farm or a steel mill creates wealth?
No.
Granted, I don’t create wealth in the sense you describe. But in this regulatory environment, the producers of the product our company manufactures could not create wealth without my staff and me. I’m what is known as overhead — an undesired but necessary part of any business. Above and beyond tax compliance, we concentrate on providing a service to the individuals in our company, to enable them to better do their jobs, so we justify the profits we siphon off the bottom line. And — our job is to minimize the extent to which we are required to feed big government. We do the best we can, but if you suggest I risk incarceration by refusing to do the required level of feeding — I’ll pass, thank you.
This fact has been far more disruptive to the economy and our society than commentators give it credit for.
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