[78-L] One person's opinions...?!^

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark S. Chester" <mschester at email.msn.com>
> Someone who understands and respects economic principles would be my 
> choice.
> I see little of that in the current administration and heard none during 
> the
> campaign or since. The past administration had some pretensions to 
> economic
> sanity but abandoned it all too frequently in what I considered to be a
> foolish "liberal outreach" program.
> I consider as totally ridiculous the assertion that someone "to the right"
> would impose mass slaughter on poor folks. Economically, the best thing to
> do about poor folks is leave them alone and create for them and all 
> citizens
> the same freedom and opportunity to pursue their own livelihood and
> happiness. "Spreading wealth around" does not make poor people wealthier, 
> it
> always makes them poorer. I could go into lengthy economic explanation 
> about
> that but this is not the place for it. However, George Bernard Shaw wrote 
> "A
> government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of
> Paul." The economic truth which is a corollary to Shaw's observation is 
> that
> the government that robs Peter to pay Paul de-motivates Peter to produce
> goods and services that Paul could use, the production of which, if 
> produced
> at all, would also create a job for Paul.
>
> The madman you refer to as Herr Zwarg's apparent hero would better be
> categorized as a leftist, BTW.
>
> Did George Bernard Shaw record anything during the 78 era? I seldom rely 
> on
> Shaw due to his socialist leaning; I find socialism to be the bane of a
> society which aims to optimize the productivity of its resources. But he 
> hit
> the nail on the head with that quote. Even a liberal can't be wrong ALL 
> the
> time...
>
The harsh reality of the XXI Jahrhundert is the fact that "conservative" 
thought
(which, I suspect, is your chosen philosophy...?!) was "hi-jacked" by a 
group
of terminally greedy wealthy-wannabes who immediately set themselves
up with six, seven and eight-figure "paycheques" simply because they
COULD!! As far as most of the current "public" knows/cares, THAT is
who they think of...better defined as the "greed is GOOD!" school of
economic thought...!

Prior to turning 65, I was trying to survive on a miserably-small "public
disability pension" (around $11,000 annually)...and a LOT of my better-
off acquaintances regularly informed me that I really ought to crawl off
and die, as I was a waste of their tax money!!

So...you'll have to pardon my negative opinion of "conservatism"...
ESPECIALLY as it is practiced by all too many of its advocates...?!

Steven C. Barr