Life is unfair.

SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2012

Is life unfair. Dennis  Prager strikes out again.
Are the "Less Fortunate" Less Fortunate?
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

In his front-page-of-the-business-section "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times last week, Eduardo Porter wrote, "The United States does less than other rich countries to transfer income from the affluent to the less fortunate."
Think about that sentence for a moment. It ends oddly. Logic dictates that it should have said, "transfer income from the affluent to the less affluent," not the less fortunate.
But for Porter, as for the left generally, those who are not affluent are not merely "less affluent," they are "less fortunate."
Why is this? Why is the leftist division almost always between the "affluent" and the "less fortunate" or between the "more fortunate" and the "less fortunate"?
To understand the left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil, as humanity has generally understood the term. The leftist divides the world not between good and evil but rich and poor.

PURE BULL CRAP.  How do he KNOW that. He don't know me like that.  American commies fought Hitler you dumb jerk.


Because inequality is the chief moral concern of the left, the words "less affluent" or even "poorer" do not meet the left's moral needs. It needs to believe, and to have others believe, that what separates economic classes is not merely how much material wealth members of each class have. Rather, it is the amount of good and bad luck -- "fortune," as the left puts it -- that each class has.

Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

----  Michael Lewis


This is how the left justifies high taxes. Isn't it only fair and moral that as much money as possible be taken from the lucky and given to the unlucky? After all, the affluent didn't achieve affluence through harder work, but through greater luck.  
WELL, YES, SORT OF.  HOWEVER, LARRY, THEY CERTAINLY they didn't work fifty times as hard.   THEY WERE GIFTED, AND THAT MEANS BORN, GOD GIVEN TALENTED.  THATS WHY THEY SUCCEEDED SO MIGHTILY.  

ITS A MISTAKE.  OF COURSE THEY WORK HARD, EVERYONE WORKS HARD. HE REALLY  DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT. HE THINKS,  LIKE HERMAN CAINE, THAT IF YOU'RE POOR YOU LACK CHARACTER AND YOUR LAZY.   


To acknowledge that most of America's affluent (meaning those who earn over $200,000) have attained their affluence through hard work is to undermine the fairness issue at the core of the left's understanding of economic inequality and justification for confiscatory taxes.

WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.  YOU PAINT US AS IDIOTS. YES THEY WORK HARD, EVERYONE DOES.  BUT THEY DO NOT STRUGGLE.   GET THAT DISTINCTION DOWN PAT.  CHANGE YOUR MIND. 

WRONG. A LOW LIFE TRICKY ARGUMENT.  WE ALL WORK HARD.  THAT INCLUDES THE AFFLUENT. NOBODY IS FOOLED!
NOBODY CLAIMS THE AFFLUENT DONT WORK HARD. THAT IS A LIE ABOUT PROGRESSIVES. A VICIOUS CALCULATED LOW LIFE  LIE!!!

For the left, affluence is won, not earned.

NO. ITS JUST NOT THAT SIMPLE DAMN IT!!

 Indeed, English is one of the few languages that even has or uses the word "earn" in regard to income. In Romance languages such as French, the verb meaning to earn is "gagner," which means "to win." In terms of language, in America, people earn their wealth, while in most of Europe and Latin America, people win it.
EARN THEIR WEALTH.  DID GATES EARN SEVENTY FIVE BILLION.  The answer is NO!

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

PROVE IT.  POOR PEOPLE WORK TWO JOBS NEITHER OF THEM MUCH TO THEIR LIKING!

FUCK YOU!  That's my best argument. I give UP!!


 While, of course, there are hardworking poor people.

VERY FEW. MOST POOR PEOPLE ARE SLACKERS.
 in America, differences in income exist largely because of the values and the hard work of those who make more money.

NO. ITS ABOUT TALENT.    VALUES AND HARD WORK ARE PREDOMINANT IN WORKING CLASS FAMILIES. GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR!!  HOW DARE YOU SAY that about my working class parents. Apologize you god damned fucking BASTARD!!
In this regard, The Washington Post reported the findings of Harvard professor Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics:

HERE WE GO MALIGNING AVERAGE  PEOPLE WHO GET LITTLE FROM THEIR WORK BUT EXHAUSTION AND A PAY CHECK. AS OPPOSED TO RICH PEOPLE WHO LOVE WHAT THEY DO AND ARE BOUYED UP BY SUCCESS, MONEY, ADMIRATION AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT. 

"People who make less than $20,000 a year ... told Kahneman and his colleagues that they spend more than a third of their time in passive leisure -- watching television, for example. 

FUCK YOU AND YOU SOCIAL STUDIES NOBEL, 
Those making more than $100,000 spent less than one-fifth of their time in this way -- putting their legs up and relaxing. Rich people spent much more time commuting and engaging in activities that were required as opposed to optional.". Like vacations and dinners they call work. Fuck YOU DENNIS!  
WELL, DENNIS, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE. 

But for the left, it's all about "fortune."

AND IT GETS WORSE. WE'RE ALSO MISERABLE.   ANGRY, RESENTFUL AND UNHAPPY. 

Every poll about the left, the right and happiness reveals that the further left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.


REALLY?  EVERY POLL?  Fucking creep. Suck my DICK!

PLUS IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.  THE SADDER YOU ARE THE MORE ATTRACTED YOU ARE TO THE LEFT.
 This is one of the reasons: If you really believe that people wealthier than you are just luckier than you, how can you not be angry, resentful and unhappy?
SHUT THE FUCKING FRONT DOOR.

On the other hand, there are tens of millions of conservatives who make much less money than others -- yet feed their families, own a house and a car, have decent children, derive great meaning from their religion and live in the freest country in the world -- who never call themselves "less fortunate." They call themselves fortunate.