Progress is made not so much when the right politicians are
elected but when the wrong politicians are forced to do the right thing by
political movements. After all, politicians are whores, and it is up to us to
remind them who the pimp is.
The same motivational speech a plantation owner gives to his
heir he will give also to his slaves: work hard and you will be rewarded. Sage
advice to the one, cynical propaganda to the other.
Money spent on barriers against others is money not spent on
bridges. An efficient society is one that does not seek to place impediments in
the way of natural movements, but instead directs much needed energy into
channels where it can benefit society as a whole.
Since we no longer vote for the candidate we like but rather
against the candidate we dislike, our ballots should reflect that. Each ballot
should ask you to vote against the candidate you most dislike, the one you
would least want to have run our country. In that way we could eliminate the
worst possible choices, which is what we seem to have ended up with using our
current system.
People should be paid according to the value they provide to
society and capitalism has been a poor arbiter of worth. The people who grow
our food, make our clothes, and clean our bathrooms provide real value. When we
lose sight of the obvious we are lost.
A Message From Consumer Capitalists: We consider your
children to be open receptacles for our messages, our products and our poisons.
We will do anything to extract money from them by whatever means necessary.
Usually this involves playing upon their insecurities and appealing to their
basest desires. If this leaves them as moronic diabetics without morals or any
prospect to free themselves from lifelong debt, we don’t care. It is not your
children but our right to make a profit that is sacred to us. That is what we
refer to when we talk about freedom. If we get your children in our clutches it
is not us who are to blame but you for being such bad parents. Any attempt to
work together to oppose us will be considered anti-American. Any questions?
The greater the discrepancy in wealth among people, the
greater the need for violence to maintain it.
After his presidency, Bill Clinton looked around and asked
himself what more he could do for his fellow man. His answer was to establish
the Clinton Foundation. In the process, he slipped and fell into a hundred
million dollars.
If you require an enemy in order to rally people to your own
cause, it is you who are the problem.
The truth is the free market runs as well as a driverless
car. All it knows how to do is keep the wheels spinning, but it invariably
crashes after picking up a head of steam. All those who call for a free
market—with the exception of the true believers—are really calling for a market
they are free to direct.
The U.S has 5% of the world’s population yet consumes 66% of
the world’s painkillers. I blame socialism.
The system is broken and it is foolish to believe that those
who benefit from it are going to fix it.
If you went to another country to
fight for my freedoms and then came back and tell me to keep quiet, you’re
doing it wrong.
The world is watching, America, but
like Honey Boo Boo’s family, we lack the self-awareness to understand how we
are viewed.
Over 40 years after the event, The U.S. government admitted
to dropping 2.5 million tons of bombs on Laos. What are we doing now that will
not be admitted for another forty years?
To the degree that you transform the world, you are
responsible for it. To the degree that people must live in an environment you
have created, you are responsible for them. Nobody would say you are
responsible to feed a stray dog, but once you allow it into your home you are
to blame if it is malnourished. There are laws against abuse and neglect,
though there are none against indifference to the suffering of others.
Similarly, if you create a political or economic atmosphere
in which people are forced to live, you become responsible for them. Don’t
like, it? Too bad. If you want the rewards you must accept the responsibilities
that go with them.
To say that government cannot help the less fortunate among
us is simply abdicating your responsibility for others. It’s an easy excuse to
let yourself off the hook. Government is a tool to help correct the injustices of
the world, a way to help those crushed not only by forces beyond society’s
control but by forces we have created. We pretend we have something called a
free market, but no business man refrains from altering it whenever the
possibility presents itself. Nobody is so naïve to believe that an entrepreneur
places the purity of the market conditions over his desire for profit.
So the market is skewed, the economic landscape is altered
by those seeking profit. You have altered the terrain and are responsible for how
your actions affect others. If you accepted your responsibility there would be
no problem and no need for government intervention. But you didn’t and there is
and it must.
Government is a tool, and like any other tool it has the
potential to cause damage if not used properly or abused. But a tool used
properly helps us to fashion a better society. We need to become skilled in the
use of government, just as you spend long hours of practicing to better use
that set of golf clubs you spent too much for.
If you think that the free market and the churches and
non-profits can do the job better, then go to it. Do such a good job that we do
not need a government program. But had we left things up to now in the hands of
business and charities, we would have seen the end of capitalism not long after
the beginning of The Great Depression.
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