Democrats drive for equality of outcome

[LordBrownTrout]

What explains these results?

"In 1973, the richest 5 percent of all families had 11 times as much income as the poorest one-fifth.

"By 1996, they had almost 20 times as much.

"But it is not only the distribution of income that should concern us. It is also the system that produces that distribution."

Still the Land of Opportunity?

Imho, it's a system that rations equality of opportunity on an ability to pay basis.

That's nothing compared to the 3 trillion dollar transfer that just happened from small business, lockdowns, to big box stores.

 

[georgephillip]

This isn't 1950. Stop making excuses for garbage people.

Like these?

Ronald Reagan's son calls Trump family 'bunch of grifters'

 

[georgephillip]

No one ever made any commitment to PROVIDE everyone with an equal chance. That's a leftwing myth.

Without equal chance, how does a meritocracy function?

 

[georgephillip]

You can thanks Dims for that. They're the ones who opened the floodgates to cheap foreign labor and thereby drove wages down for working Americans.

"Neoliberalism: do you know what it is?

Its anonymity is both a symptom and cause of its power.

"It has played a major role in a remarkable variety of crises: the financial meltdown of 2007‑8, the offshoring of wealth and power, of which the Panama Papers offer us merely a glimpse, the slow collapse of public health and education, resurgent child poverty, the epidemic of loneliness, the collapse of ecosystems, the rise of Donald Trump."

Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems

 

[bripat9643]

How do you determine the unworthy, Sparky? The Reverend managed to ramble almost five minutes without using the word neoliberalism while railing against government's attempt to recognize that each person has different circumstances and allocate the exact resources and opportunities required to reach an equal outcome.

https://www.marinhhs.org/sites/default/files/boards/general/equality_v._equity_04_05_2021.pdf

Where did the government get the right to "allocate" the "resources" it takes from me?

 

[georgephillip]

That's nothing compared to the 3 trillion dollar transfer that just happened from small business, lockdowns, to big box stores.

It is the same five percent of families who profit from the 3 trillion dollar transfer, LBT.

 

[georgephillip]

Folks who can't man up, pass the test, have no motivation, etc George

Some folks are denied the opportunity to man up, pass the test, or find any logical reason to become motivated by an accident of birth.

"The book argues that the experience of slavery in the United States and the continued discrimination and oppression endured by African Americans creates intergenerational psychological trauma leading to a psychological and behavioral syndrome common among present-day African Americans, manifesting as a lack of self-esteem, persistent feelings of anger, and internalized racist beliefs."

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - Wikipedia

 

[georgephillip]

Where did the government get the right to "allocate" the "resources" it takes from me?

What resources has government taken from you?
Is that number larger or smaller than the resources government has given you?
Would you have the same resources if you had been born with a different skin color?

 

[bripat9643]

Without equal chance, how does a meritocracy function?

There have never been any societies that offered an "equal chance" and there never will be. The only thing government can reasonably provide is equality before the law. Anything beyond that means violating the rights of innocent people.

 

[bripat9643]

Some folks are denied the opportunity to man up, pass the test, or find any logical reason to become motivated by an accident of birth.
View attachment 582474
"The book argues that the experience of slavery in the United States and the continued discrimination and oppression endured by African Americans creates intergenerational psychological trauma leading to a psychological and behavioral syndrome common among present-day African Americans, manifesting as a lack of self-esteem, persistent feelings of anger, and internalized racist beliefs."

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - Wikipedia

Any book written by a prog is automatically a worthless pile of shit.

 

[sparky]

Some folks are denied the opportunity to man up, pass the test, or find any logical reason to become motivated by an accident of birth.

And some folks find every reason to claim their denied opportunity and equality , even while it's being handed to them George

~S~

 

[22lcidw]

What explains these results?

"In 1973, the richest 5 percent of all families had 11 times as much income as the poorest one-fifth.

"By 1996, they had almost 20 times as much.

"But it is not only the distribution of income that should concern us. It is also the system that produces that distribution."

Still the Land of Opportunity?

Imho, it's a system that rations equality of opportunity on an ability to pay basis.

We had a Fiat Currency enacted in 1913 but kept under mostly control until 1971. The game has changed in many ways. This is one of them. A big one. Personal wealth exploded over foundation.

 

[bripat9643]

What resources has government taken from you?
Is that number larger or smaller than the resources government has given you?
Would you have the same resources if you had been born with a different skin color?

Are you fucking serious? The government has taken 50% of my income for my entire life. I could have retired 20 years ago if not for that.

Government doesn't have any "resources." I doesn't have anything that it hasn't taken from us firts. The it charge a huge handling charge for the transaction. Most of the money government spends is wasted, so it's obviously much larger than what government has "given" me.

You are too fucking stupid.

 

[bripat9643]

"Neoliberalism: do you know what it is?

Its anonymity is both a symptom and cause of its power.

"It has played a major role in a remarkable variety of crises: the financial meltdown of 2007‑8, the offshoring of wealth and power, of which the Panama Papers offer us merely a glimpse, the slow collapse of public health and education, resurgent child poverty, the epidemic of loneliness, the collapse of ecosystems, the rise of Donald Trump."

Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems

What does that have to do with the policy of open borders that Dims have maintained?

 

[bripat9643]

Like these?
View attachment 582381Ronald Reagan's son calls Trump family 'bunch of grifters'

Ronald Reagan's son is a left-wing homosexual who never had anything good to say about any Republican.

 

[georgephillip]

The only thing government can reasonably provide is equality before the law. Anything beyond that means violating the rights of innocent people.

What evidence for "equality before the law" can you provide in this capitalist society? Start with the alleged right to a trial by a jury of your peers.

Only 2% of federal criminal defendants go to trial, and most who do are found guilty

'Think it might be too expensive to provide "equality before the law" in an economic system based on ability to pay?

 

[georgephillip]

Any book written by a prog is automatically a worthless pile of shit.

Only for a brainwashed troll.

"Expanding on a hypothesis of 'post-traumatic slavery syndrome' by psychiatrist Alvin Francis Poussaint and journalist Amy L. Alexander, DeGruy wrote in her 2001 doctoral thesis that African Americans 'sustained traumatic injury as a direct result of slavery and continue to be injured by traumas caused by the larger society's policies of inequality, racism, and oppression.'[2]: 91–92  This is summed up in Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome as:

"Multigenerational trauma together with continued oppression and [a]bsence of opportunity to access the benefits available in the society.[2]: 118 "

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - Wikipedia

 

[georgephillip]

And some folks find every reason to claim their denied opportunity and equality , even while it's being handed to them George

When has that ever happened in the US, Sparky?

 

[Mac-7]

That "commitment to provide everyone with a fair chance..." has always applied mostly to White Americans. Chattel slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, for-profit prisons explain more about Chicago's blight than almost anything else.

Thats a damn lie

America is filled with minority immigrants who are middle class and many are wealthy

where do you live George?

 

[22lcidw]

Thats a damn lie

America is filled with minority immigrants who are middle class and many are wealthy

where do you live George?

This scam keeps going on beause people like George knows they gets paid. The route from point A to point B is quick this way. Massive lawsuits, payoffs and abuse of the social welfare programs has enriched many at the expense of the those who live by rules. Sadly the poverty has not wavered but the costs to keep people treading the same level of living is massive in psychotic ways. The "crib" could be worn down with stealing utilities while the clothing, jewelry, sneakers are expensive and nice cars are near standardized.