Galt's Gulch

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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 10 months ago
    When Bernie got his first job at age 40, he never clearly realized what a mooch he was. Had someone offered him a stipend at age 35 to write socialist tracts, we likely wouldn't be hearing from him today.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 9 years, 10 months ago
    When will people learn that you cannot regulate virtue, it must be learned through action and consequence for action, or by seeing and understand the same through another experience.

    Removing the consequences for action (both positive and negative) creates a greater lack of virtues.

    Nice article, and thanks for the post.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 10 months ago
    it's like alcohol -- wanna know someone? . get 'em
    drunk and riddle them with questions, hard questions.
    if they respond gently and with serious attempts at
    clarity, you can keep 'em;;; otherwise, walk on. -- j
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 9 years, 10 months ago
    It is an old and deep problem. Karl Marx was 100% right when he acknowledged that capitalism solved the problem of production. But he - and Sanders - were 100% wrong in thinking that whatever exists today is the most we can possibly have.

    Marx did not -- could not -- foresee computers, jet aircraft, and organ transplants. Sanders is similarly bound to the present.
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    • Posted by term2 9 years, 10 months ago
      And Sanders doesnt understand how robots and automation will kill his $15/hr workers and put them out of work. I have a chart indicating how many people we will let go at each level of minimum wage. At $15, its all of them, and we outsource 100% or close our doors.
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      • Posted by ProfChuck 9 years, 10 months ago
        There is a fundamental problem with liberal-progressive economists, they have absolutely no understanding of economics. My dog has a better understanding of how his food gets into cans than liberals have of why people are paid to work.
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        • Posted by term2 9 years, 10 months ago
          ABSOLUTELY. Once Sanders feeds the "poor" with my money, why should I go out and make the money. I have started to ask the "homeless" people on the streetcorners the question "I just dont understand why I should work so that you dont have to. Can you explain that to me?"
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          • Posted by ProfChuck 9 years, 10 months ago
            It's really quite simple, at least from the perspective of the Lib-Prog collectivists. If you have ability that makes you better than those that don't. Being better than your fellows is considered to be a kind of antisocial crime. The only way you can be absolved of that crime is to use that ability to provide for those that cannot provide for themselves. You must do that without any benefit for your self. If you understand that you understand just how warped the collectivist mind actually is. Ability is a debt rather than an asset.
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            • Posted by term2 9 years, 10 months ago
              Thats IT in a nutshell. Somehow I never had time to analyze it that way. I was too busy I guess trying to improve my abilities, thinking that was a good thing...
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              • Posted by ProfChuck 9 years, 10 months ago
                The Lib-Prog's use ability as invisible chains of servitude. It goes back to the old Marxist mantra. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." If you have ability you are a slave to those that don't. It's 20'th Century Motors in the real world.
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  • Posted by wmiranda 9 years, 10 months ago
    Sanders- Another typical socialist. Hillary- Another lifelong career politician, an American aristocrat. Bring out the guillotines!

    I've always believed that money enhances who your inner being is really like. A generous person will be more generous and an S.O.B will still be one, but with money.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 10 months ago
    Wealth is money in excess of current need. Money is an expression of the value of your work and that of others. Nothing more difficult than that.
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 10 months ago
    Wealth is sin; sanders is a joke, why do you give him time?
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    • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 10 months ago
      It is not wealth per se, but how it accentuates and enables the other vices (and virtues) that makes it problematic. I look at Bill and Hillary Clinton as perfect examples of how wealth and power accentuate their need for more power and their individual lusts. I also look at a couple of other true philanthropists (I'm not talking Bill Gates) and how they use their money wisely.
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    • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 10 months ago
      Sanders may be a joke, but his constituents have to be considered our moocher enemies. His success is our demise.
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      • Posted by term2 9 years, 10 months ago
        I agree that Sanders is a wack job with stupid and crazy ideas that pander to the uninformed and ignorant young people.

        But I have to give him credit for at least being honest about it. Unlike Hillary, who hides in the shadows about her socialist and power hungry ideas.

        I do think that the current crop of young people, after years of public schooling and statist ideas, are our enemies. They will succeed in getting Sanders successors into office and changing our government in the future, but not this time (due to the crooked nature of our political system).

        I have to say I do feel for the young people in one small way- They are being denied by a very corrupt political system that is being controlled by the power brokers and money men.

        Sanders did a good job on their behalf, but it was pointless when confronted by the likes of a Hildebeast determined to do anything to get elected. Its a sorry state of affairs in our country.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 10 months ago
    Sanders has 2 things going for him a corrupt deceitful opponent and a myopic intellectually lazy brain washed Millenials. Corporations are part of the problem I see collusion to keep wages uncompetitive, many hire grads ( buried in student
    loans) as independent contractors, offering no benifits or security. The top earners of corps x the average paid is 300x it was 20x in 1965.
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    • Posted by term2 9 years, 10 months ago
      Wages are uncompetitive as it is now. In a global economy, there are a LOT of people willing to work hard for much less than American workers. The fact that wages are so high here in America has caused the flight of jobs to overseas countries. Our small company would NOT exist if we had to pay "living wages" as they call them. We have 3/4 of our labor done in China just in order for us to stay open. Raise the minimum wages to $10 or $15 means we close our doors if we cant automate pretty much completely.
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