Canada's Middle Class Surpasses US
1.increased taxation
2.increased regulation
3.Increased govt spending
4. weakening of all of our property rights
5. Fed stealing trillions out of the middle class and giving to the rich political class throughout the WORLD by printing money
6. it's NOT technology stealing our labor-Luddites!
Note this sharp decline in US middle class income and wealth starts just after 2000. Much onerous legislation and sharp increases in regulations in the US happened over the last decade. Much of this lies squarely on Bush's shoulders. But it has accelerated under Obama. If our legislature cannot do their job-fire them! It's also immoral to be one of those who thinks-yea, it's not right but I can play the "game" better. If you're one of those-you are no different than a member of the ruling class
2.increased regulation
3.Increased govt spending
4. weakening of all of our property rights
5. Fed stealing trillions out of the middle class and giving to the rich political class throughout the WORLD by printing money
6. it's NOT technology stealing our labor-Luddites!
Note this sharp decline in US middle class income and wealth starts just after 2000. Much onerous legislation and sharp increases in regulations in the US happened over the last decade. Much of this lies squarely on Bush's shoulders. But it has accelerated under Obama. If our legislature cannot do their job-fire them! It's also immoral to be one of those who thinks-yea, it's not right but I can play the "game" better. If you're one of those-you are no different than a member of the ruling class
Mr. Obama (I have to bite my toung here not to use a more decsiptive name) from day one advertized wealth redistribution, cofiscatory taxes etc. It got him elected twice.
Why all this? Because people get the governments they deserve. I call this "the first principle of governance", akin to the first principle of thermodynamics. Majority of the voters are: poorly educated, ignorant of wisdom humanity accumulated in 6000 revolutions arond the sun, mistaking freedom as license for resposibility, illuding themselves that utopian pronises are real etc. etc.
Either charter schools win before it is too late, or a welfare state collapse, that will meke old depression look like a joke, wakes people.
The ultimate defense is the armed citizen. As I promised to my family and friends, I will rather die, rifle in hands, than live again in a socilist country. Once in a life is enough for me and, I believee, for vast majority of humanity.
I hope that you do not find this too much of an outburst.
I said that "peple get the governments they deserve" is a principle akin to the first principle of thermodinamics. There WAS a hidden meaning there. I described them as principles, not laws. Laws you can deduce and prove. Principles are like Euclidian axioms. The best you can say is that nothing in human experience ever proved them wong.
This malkes me unable to resist the temptation on telling you another of my favorates. One of my old (very) textbooks of physical chemistry pointed out that one can restate ther three principles of thermodynamics thus:
First: "You can never win; the beat you can do is break even."
Second: You always lose; the ovly place you can break even is at absolute zero."
Third: "You can never reach absolute zero."
Do not forget, thermodynamics rules all the processes and changes in our world. And it is so pessimistic. I then tell people that this proves that all the improvements, all the progress over the last 6000 years is because of human efforts, human will for learning and improving. Certainly, we are not yet done.
We can philosophize along these lines nearly forever.
Again, no apologies, please.
Jr. looked good the first couple years, but then started doing the bidding of the Council on Foreign Relations and the whole one world bunch. Canada is in reality no more socialist than we have become since Obama. The difference, Canadians are working their way out of it, while our entitlement crowd are embracing it. I would bet our US IQ has dropped while there may have risen. Would like to see a study.