(via Wendy Gittleson at Addicting Info)
Why is it that when people hoard things, they are a scourge on society and when they hoard money, they are job creators? In fact, aren’t the people that buy things the true job creators?
To paraphrase something a very wise man once told me, “Steal a thousand bucks, and you’d best be prepared to do some hard time. Steal millions, and you’re a capitalist hero.” The reality is that America runs on the Golden Rule:
He who has the gold makes the rules.
The wealthy control the media and the political process. Of course they’re going to skew the rules of the game to their advantage. Their gold, their rules, remember?
Both the 10 Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins have no mention of being gay or having abortions. Greed, though, seems to be a biggie. Why do conservatives seem to get that backwards?
Well, how ‘bout you can’t spend being gay or having abortions? And greed is what made this country great, remember? Or did you never see Wall Street??
At what point did getting sick become a moral failing?
Look, if God had meant for you to have health care and health insurance, you’d have been born healthy, wealthy, and Conservative.
In what way are people who buy and sell paper making a more significant contribution to society than teachers, nurses, firefighters, police officers, mail carriers, artists, etc.?
It’s the people who manipulate financial markets with ever more arcane financial products that make capitalism such a wonderful system. Hey, if you don’t like it, buy and sell your own paper.
When did the right to unlimited profit become greater than the general welfare of the people?
It takes money to make money, and since the ones with money are the ones taking risks to make money, they’re by definition better people and more worthy of the benefits that accrue to Americans. Or so they think.
Why don’t people realize that there’s no such thing as a “self made man?” Even the most successful and ethical people can thank their parents, their teachers, their siblings, their employees, their customers, the government, their contractors, etc. Without them, they would be nothing. The unethical might want to work on their apologies.
I believe it was Elizabeth Warren who waxed eloquently about how no one ever got rich on their own. Anyone who’s gotten rich has had help along the way, whether from the government, friends, family, or customers and colleagues. In the business world, no man is an island…but a man can be an arrogant, self-absorbed egotist.
Why is physical labor less important than sitting behind a desk?
It would appear that Conservative haves forgotten that it took someone to build the office building that holds the desk the bond trader or currency manipulator sits behind.
Why should people who inherit their money not pay taxes and people who earn their money be taxed at the highest rate?
Perhaps because the people who inherit their money have been raised to believe that their financial success and comfort is their birthright, and that government has no claim on the manor to which they were born.
At what point did we start judging people based on the size of their checkbook rather than the size of the heart?
When Teapublicans began espousing the writings of Ayn Rand.
How has being a conservative helped you?
And we don’t mean how has it helped you hate Liberals, the poor, homosexuals, women, the unemployed, the sick, or all manner of classes. Or how it’s helped you feel morally superior to lesser mortals not enlightened enough to share your unassailable Conservative ideology.
