THE 'EQUALITY' RACKET...by Thomas Sowell

[Asclepias]

Youre a fucking idiot. 10% of Americans were wealthy too during that time. Now its worse.

So? People are wealthy big fucking deal.

I know its hard to read being a convict and all but try reading the OP before you confirm to everyone you are an idiot.

I have read it. I've read a lot of Sowell's work. Why do you hate rich people?

If you read it why did you ask such an ignorant question? Who told you I hate rich people?

You did.

Got proof?

 

[Dad2three]

With all due respect, That sounds like the standard Liberal attack and dismissal of an individual without addressing the very valid points being raised.

"without addressing the very valid points being raised."

False premises, distortions and lies? lol

Right wing crap


Keynes wrote "The End of Laissez Faire" in 1926. He was correct then, and his insight remains more valid than any economics that conservative Libertarians propound ad infinitum and ad nauseum. Laissez Faire is nothing more than a childish Christmas wish of no substance; just hope and myth, and smoke and mirrors. Fails every time we try even the tiniest bit.

 

[Dad2three]

With all due respect, That sounds like the standard Liberal attack and dismissal of an individual without addressing the very valid points being raised.

Without any due respect, C Clayton Jones is one example that turned my ass into a 'racist'
(their terminology, not mine).

You mean brought you at of the closet? lol

 

[katsteve2012]

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Without any due respect, C Clayton Jones is one example that turned my ass into a 'racist'
(their terminology, not mine).

How does a fully functioning, thinking (going out on a limb assuming) adult allow an anonymous stranger on the Internet to "turn them" into anything?

Your own tendencies and thought processes were likely already in place.

So what part of ONE EXAMPLE gives you the most problems in your obvious inability of understanding plain English?

[

Without any due respect, C Clayton Jones is one example that turned my ass into a 'racist'
(their terminology, not mine).

How does a fully functioning, thinking (going out on a limb assuming) adult allow an anonymous stranger on the Internet to "turn them" into anything?

Your own tendencies and thought processes were likely already in place.

So what part of ONE EXAMPLE gives you the most problems in your obvious inability of understanding plain English?

"One example" was enough to draw a conclusion. The person merely disagreed with your post, and stated their own opinion about Sowells article. You called that an "example" of what "turned you into a racist".

It is obvious from that statement about an innocuous comment in cyberspace that it does not require much at all to influence how you think.

Now, do you get it?

 

[Dad2three]

Thomas makes a convincing argument and from the looks of it, no liberal has an intelligent counter argument.

The problem with YOUR segment of the American population is one that can only handle a very simplistic approach to life; simple ideas, simple lives, simple explanations to things. That's why fundamentalist religion is so important to that segment of the population; simplistic explanation to the world around them. Those people cannot understand the world is a very complex world

1945-1980 THE TOP 1% RECEIVED 6%-9% OF ALL US INCOME, BUT BY 2007 THEY HAD 23%. HMM


In 1980 the top 1% earned 8.5% of total income. In 2007 they earned 23%.

In 1980 the bottom 90% earned 68% of total income. In 2007 they earned 53%.

Summary of Latest Federal Income Tax Data Tax Foundation

GOV'T POLICY MATTERS !!!

 

[Dad2three]

The cons on this board are the same as they are everywhere.

They can complain and cut-paste and repeat talking points but they cannot answer any questions. Completely empty vessels devoid of substance.

1) Why are the red states so poor?

2) Is poaching businesses from blue states really wealth creating for the nation?

3) Has an increase in minimum wage ever caused mass unemployment and an inflationary spiral?

4) What is wealth? What is money? How do you create wealth?

5) How come there are many successful "socialist" countries in Europe? Why isn't it all a socialist he11ho1e??


Our government is completely dysfunctional. At this time of crisis, Republicans have done everything they could to block a recovery, simply because they thought they could benefit politically from a bad economy. They continue to promote the same failed ideas that have never worked -- what Krugman calls "zombie" ideas. They have proven to be fallacious, but Republicans keep them alive purely for political gain. Everything is politics to Republicans -- even our national security.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

So? People are wealthy big fucking deal.

I know its hard to read being a convict and all but try reading the OP before you confirm to everyone you are an idiot.

I have read it. I've read a lot of Sowell's work. Why do you hate rich people?

If you read it why did you ask such an ignorant question? Who told you I hate rich people?

You did.

Got proof?

Don't need any.

 

[Dad2three]

Its a well known fact that the people that have the most worked the least physically. They just used other people to make their money for them. For example. wealthy whites worked the hell out of white and Black slaves. Later new money was created by selling and working Blacks and also stealing land from NA's so the slaves could work that land..

I don't know if 75¢ per day was slave wages for chopping (weeding) cotton, but MY OWN mother earned that pay back during the depression for that back breaking job. She told me many times that she would rather drag a 100 pound sack from picking cotton than to chop it.

Slaves didnt get paid except in very very rare cases. It was free labor. This was long before the depression.and during the period of time the US had become a economic power due to exploitation of slaves. The rich have always stolen their wealth from people they either cheated or enslaved.

10 percent of Americans owned slaves and you are a racist dumbass.

Youre a fucking idiot. 10% of Americans were wealthy too during that time. Now its worse.

So? People are wealthy big fucking deal.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

 

[Asclepias]

The cons on this board are the same as they are everywhere.

They can complain and cut-paste and repeat talking points but they cannot answer any questions. Completely empty vessels devoid of substance.

1) Why are the red states so poor?

2) Is poaching businesses from blue states really wealth creating for the nation?

3) Has an increase in minimum wage ever caused mass unemployment and an inflationary spiral?

4) What is wealth? What is money? How do you create wealth?

5) How come there are many successful "socialist" countries in Europe? Why isn't it all a socialist he11ho1e??


Our government is completely dysfunctional. At this time of crisis, Republicans have done everything they could to block a recovery, simply because they thought they could benefit politically from a bad economy. They continue to promote the same failed ideas that have never worked -- what Krugman calls "zombie" ideas. They have proven to be fallacious, but Republicans keep them alive purely for political gain. Everything is politics to Republicans -- even our national security.

I think all cons should wait for the "trickle down". Hasnt that worked before? In the meantime smart people work at liberating yourself from the work force. Its only going to get worse.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Thomas makes a convincing argument and from the looks of it, no liberal has an intelligent counter argument.

The problem with YOUR segment of the American population is one that can only handle a very simplistic approach to life; simple ideas, simple lives, simple explanations to things. That's why fundamentalist religion is so important to that segment of the population; simplistic explanation to the world around them. Those people cannot understand the world is a very complex world

1945-1980 THE TOP 1% RECEIVED 6%-9% OF ALL US INCOME, BUT BY 2007 THEY HAD 23%. HMM


In 1980 the top 1% earned 8.5% of total income. In 2007 they earned 23%.

In 1980 the bottom 90% earned 68% of total income. In 2007 they earned 53%.

Summary of Latest Federal Income Tax Data Tax Foundation

GOV'T POLICY MATTERS !!!

What is MY "segment of the American population"?

The world is only complex to those that don't understand it. In other words, to sheeple like liberals.

 

[Asclepias]

I know its hard to read being a convict and all but try reading the OP before you confirm to everyone you are an idiot.

I have read it. I've read a lot of Sowell's work. Why do you hate rich people?

If you read it why did you ask such an ignorant question? Who told you I hate rich people?

You did.

Got proof?

Don't need any.

I figured it was just your opinion. Convicts tend to be wrong about a lot of things.

 

[Dad2three]

Thomas makes a convincing argument and from the looks of it, no liberal has an intelligent counter argument.

The problem with YOUR segment of the American population is one that can only handle a very simplistic approach to life; simple ideas, simple lives, simple explanations to things. That's why fundamentalist religion is so important to that segment of the population; simplistic explanation to the world around them. Those people cannot understand the world is a very complex world

1945-1980 THE TOP 1% RECEIVED 6%-9% OF ALL US INCOME, BUT BY 2007 THEY HAD 23%. HMM


In 1980 the top 1% earned 8.5% of total income. In 2007 they earned 23%.

In 1980 the bottom 90% earned 68% of total income. In 2007 they earned 53%.

Summary of Latest Federal Income Tax Data Tax Foundation

GOV'T POLICY MATTERS !!!

What is MY "segment of the American population"?

The world is only complex to those that don't understand it. In other words, to sheeple like liberals.

Your segment? The ones who actually believe in myths and fairy tales even though they can't point to ONE example of successful state/nation EVER using libertarian philosophy!

Yes, keep projecting and we will keep it simple for the conservatives


Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead. - Leo Rosten

 

[Porker]

Slaves didnt get paid except in very very rare cases. It was free labor. This was long before the depression.and during the period of time the US had become a economic power due to exploitation of slaves. The rich have always stolen their wealth from people they either cheated or enslaved.

10 percent of Americans owned slaves and you are a racist dumbass.

Youre a fucking idiot. 10% of Americans were wealthy too during that time. Now its worse.

So? People are wealthy big fucking deal.

I know its hard to read being a convict and all but try reading the OP before you confirm to everyone you are an idiot.

I have read it. I've read a lot of Sowell's work. Why do you hate rich people?

This Texas son of a bitch is a-typical of why the Razorbacks broke-up the SWC back in 1992 and headed to the SEC. Fucking idiotic brain dead piece of steer shit.

 

[Porker]

Truer words were never spoken...especially by a black man.

The Equality Racket - Thomas Sowell - Page 1

Some time ago, burglars in England scrawled a message on the wall of a home they had looted: "RICH BASTARDS."

Those two words captured the spirit of the politicized vision of equality -- that it was a grievance when someone was better off than themselves.

That, of course, is not the only meaning of equality, but it is the predominant political meaning in practice, where economic "disparities" and "gaps" are automatically treated as "inequities." If one racial or ethnic group has a lower income than another, that is automatically called "discrimination" by many people in politics, the media and academia.

It doesn't matter how much evidence there is that some groups work harder in school, perform better and spend more postgraduate years studying to acquire valuable skills in medicine, science or engineering. If the economic end results are unequal, that is treated as a grievance against those with better outcomes, and a sign of an "unfair" society.

The rhetoric of clever people often confuses the undeniable fact that life is unfair with the claim that a given institution or society is unfair.

Children born into families that raise them with love and with care to see that they acquire knowledge, values and discipline that will make them valuable members of society have far more chances of economic and other success in adulthood than children raised in families that lack these qualities.

Studies show that children whose parents have professional careers speak nearly twice as many words per hour to them as children with working class parents -- and several times as many words per hour as children in families on welfare. There is no way that children from these different backgrounds are going to have equal chances of economic or other success in adulthood.

The fatal fallacy, however, is in collecting statistics on employees at a particular business or other institution, and treating differences in the hiring, pay or promotion of people from different groups as showing that their employer has been discriminating.

Too many gullible people buy the implicit assumption that the unfairness originated where the statistics were collected, which would be an incredible coincidence if it were true.

Worse yet, some people buy the idea that politicians can correct the unfairness of life by cracking down on employers. But, by the time children raised in very different ways reach an employer, the damage has
already been done.


What is a problem for children raised in families and communities that do not prepare them for productive lives can be a bonanza for politicians, lawyers and assorted social messiahs who are ready to lead fierce crusades, if the price is right.

Many in the media and among the intelligentsia are all too ready to go along, in the name of seeking equality. But equality of what?

Equality before the law is a fundamental value in a decent society. But equality of treatment in no way guarantees equality of outcomes.

On the contrary, equality of treatment makes equality of outcomes unlikely, since virtually nobody is equal to somebody else in the whole range of skills and capabilities required in real life. When it comes to performance, the same man may not even be equal to himself on different days, much less at different periods of his life.

What may be a spontaneous confusion among the public at large about the very different meanings of the word "equality" can be a carefully cultivated confusion by politicians, lawyers and others skilled in rhetoric, who can exploit that confusion for their own benefit.

Regardless of the actual causes of different capabilities and rewards in different individuals and groups, political crusades require a villain to attack -- a villain far removed from the voter or the voter's family or community. Lawyers must likewise have a villain to sue. The media and the intelligentsia are also attracted to crusades against the forces of evil.

But whether as a crusade or a racket, a confused conception of equality is a formula for never-ending strife that can tear a whole society apart -- and has already done so in many countries.

If it wasn't for false premises, distortion or LIES, the right would have NOTHING to hang their hats on

Conservatives simplistic minds

If you are rich it is because of your merits. If you are poor its because of your faults




In 1980 the top 1% earned 8.5% of total income. In 2007 they earned 23%.

In 1980 the bottom 90% earned 68% of total income. In 2007 they earned 53%.

Summary of Latest Federal Income Tax Data Tax Foundation

GOV'T POLICY MATTERS !!!

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich
The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent


How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich Rolling Stone

Look! Another useless liberal chart from the N.Y. Times...

 

[Porker]

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Without any due respect, C Clayton Jones is one example that turned my ass into a 'racist'
(their terminology, not mine).

How does a fully functioning, thinking (going out on a limb assuming) adult allow an anonymous stranger on the Internet to "turn them" into anything?

Your own tendencies and thought processes were likely already in place.

So what part of ONE EXAMPLE gives you the most problems in your obvious inability of understanding plain English?

[

Without any due respect, C Clayton Jones is one example that turned my ass into a 'racist'
(their terminology, not mine).

How does a fully functioning, thinking (going out on a limb assuming) adult allow an anonymous stranger on the Internet to "turn them" into anything?

Your own tendencies and thought processes were likely already in place.

So what part of ONE EXAMPLE gives you the most problems in your obvious inability of understanding plain English?

"One example" was enough to draw a conclusion. The person merely disagreed with your post, and stated their own opinion about Sowells article. You called that an "example" of what "turned you into a racist".

It is obvious from that statement about an innocuous comment in cyberspace that it does not require much at all to influence how you think.

Now, do you get it?

Yes, I got what I meant before I ever heard of your sorry retarded ass.. You're the one that didn't know the meaning of ONE EXAMPLE. So maybe next you can submit your explanation to Wikipedia. Dumb shit liberal.

 

[Porker]

What is MY "segment of the American population"?

Retards.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

10 percent of Americans owned slaves and you are a racist dumbass.

Youre a fucking idiot. 10% of Americans were wealthy too during that time. Now its worse.

So? People are wealthy big fucking deal.

I know its hard to read being a convict and all but try reading the OP before you confirm to everyone you are an idiot.

I have read it. I've read a lot of Sowell's work. Why do you hate rich people?

This Texas son of a bitch is a-typical of why the Razorbacks broke-up the SWC back in 1992 and headed to the SEC. Fucking idiotic brain dead piece of steer shit.

Another internet tough guy.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

What is MY "segment of the American population"?

Retards.

That the best you got boy? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Porker]

[QUOTE

Another internet tough guy.

Yeah, guys like you and ME are a dime a dozen...but the ones from Texas always smell like steer shit.

 

[Porker]

What is MY "segment of the American population"?

Retards.

That the best you got boy? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's all I need, you retarded fucking steer shit smelling Texas prick.