flacaltenn
Diamond Member
Agreed.Ya know -- it occurs to me that what these "moderate Americans" are missing is that SOMEBODY has to take BIG risks to make "the pie" in the first place.
What if I built a pie factory and nobody buys them? What if my competitor gets shelf space in the grocery and I don't? Do I really want to RISK $10M on a pie company so "moderate Americans" can enjoy them?
All "moderate Americans" have to do is wheel their cart down the freakin' aisle and CHOOSE a pie. Not much risk to that. We've spoiled the heck out of Americans by propagating this myth that life shouldn't HAVE risks, there is no reason to TAKE risks, and people who get rich risked NOTHING to get there...
And that would be a big step to admit the the economy, ANY economy is NOT a zero sum game.
Go back to what we owed post war America 1781, and superimpose the figures we banter about with now.
History doesn't start from the day one was born...
That's the fundamental leftist misconception behind the class war. You can be green as a tree frog by selecting the govt to throw 1/2Bill$ at Solyndra or Evergreen Solar and when it fails -- there was never any "risk" was there? Everyone stills feels good about it. Wasn't THEIR risk.. The RISK gets socialized --- but the potential PROFIT is still privatized.. And they want to DISMANTLE the wealth gap with misguided policies like that?
Policies like that LEAD to a wealth gap. It's all fk'ed up. THEY are fk'ed up. They don't see corporate welfare when it's convienient for them to be blind to it.
Want your economy back? Start WORKING with the folks who WANT to take risks, are WILLING to lose their OWN money and make it a little LESS risky for them to succeed...
I think I'm having a Rick Santelli moment..