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The next Brownstoner lunch club should follow the principles of a world hunger teach-in; everyone draws lots and:
20% get to eat whatever they want
50% get rice
30% get water and a carrot
By jessibaby on March 29, 2011 3:10 PM
“If 90% are employed, they should be able to comfortably support the 10% which aren’t”
The 90% pay MORE THAN ENOUGH to do so already. The problem is that the government wastes it.
kens,
I think that classroom story cuts through everything and explains it.
We cannot have a system of government and economics which does not take into account its own raison d’etre. In this case human beings and human nature.
and if you gave a percentage of the kids who got A’s the answer key before hand.
Apparently the Ivory Coast isn’t as important to us as Libya is with respect to genocide.
I don’t want the price of my chocolate to rise further!!!!!
teacher analogy would make sense if the teacher stole the books of the kids that got bad grades and gave them to people in india and china before the test.
oh that’s a great parable lol. and so spot on
*rob*
Denton;
Buffet’s statement leaves me absolutely cold. His basic point is that life is but a jackpot, and the House (govt.) is entitled to its cut. I do not deny that fortune plays a role in life, but it is far from everything. I would suggest that you read the final couple of paragraphs of Emerson’s essay “Self-reliance” as a counterpoint to Buffet’s tripe.
By jessibaby on March 29, 2011 3:10 PM
“If 90% are employed, they should be able to comfortably support the 10% which aren’t”
That’s exactly it jessi,
we the people give Washington bureaucrats about 13 trillion a year.
and it’s still not enough! Since when did the people become the business end of the IRS?
The government should be fearing the people, not the other way around. That’s Thomas Jefferson speaking not me. 😉