flacaltenn
Diamond Member
The industrialization of the Far East has led to unprecedented gains in per capita income, reductions of poverty, massive infrastructure investment, and general increases in the standard of living..
So after 49 threads about "class warfare" and "wealth gaps" -- I've got to ask our leftists --
HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
Did they STEAL money from their "wealthy" thru tax policy? Did they villify business people and blame them for trampling on the poor? NO..
There was an INTERNATION class war -- and WE LOST. The Social Justice folks for YEARS were on a crusade to redistribute the MACROECONOMIC World wealth and resources. You remember stuff like ::
Consumption by the United States: Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy.
Or
http://theendofpoverty.com/pdf/teoppressnotes.pdf
SOUND FAMILIAR???
Should be -- that was the LAST GREAT Socialist Class War.. And the result was that OUR COUNTRY -- shed jobs, shed capital, and shed prestige to help equalize the world..
VOLUNTARILLY -- I might add. The WEALTHY nations INVESTED in the 3rd world. That social progress DID NOT trickle up. It did not come from FORCED redistribution. It came from the "1%-ers" of their fellow nations..
You like the outcome lefty buds?? You WON that class war... You just don't know it...
So after 49 threads about "class warfare" and "wealth gaps" -- I've got to ask our leftists --
HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
Did they STEAL money from their "wealthy" thru tax policy? Did they villify business people and blame them for trampling on the poor? NO..
There was an INTERNATION class war -- and WE LOST. The Social Justice folks for YEARS were on a crusade to redistribute the MACROECONOMIC World wealth and resources. You remember stuff like ::
Consumption by the United States: Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy.
Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24%
of the world's energy.
On average, one American consumes as much energy as
2 Japanese
6 Mexicans
13 Chinese
31 Indians
128 Bangladeshis
307 Tanzanians
370 Ethiopians
Or
http://theendofpoverty.com/pdf/teoppressnotes.pdf
2. The gap between the richest and the poorest country was:
3 to 1 in 1820 35 to 1 in 1950 74 to 1 in 1997.
(Source: United Nations Development Program. 1999 Human Development Report.)
6. The richest 1% of the worlds population owns 32% of the wealth.
(Source: UNU-WIDER, Estimating the Level and Distribution ofGlobal Household Wealth.
11. Cutting global poverty in half would cost $20 billion, less that 4% of the U.S. military budget.
SOUND FAMILIAR???
Should be -- that was the LAST GREAT Socialist Class War.. And the result was that OUR COUNTRY -- shed jobs, shed capital, and shed prestige to help equalize the world..
VOLUNTARILLY -- I might add. The WEALTHY nations INVESTED in the 3rd world. That social progress DID NOT trickle up. It did not come from FORCED redistribution. It came from the "1%-ers" of their fellow nations..
You like the outcome lefty buds?? You WON that class war... You just don't know it...