@H2O MAN,
H2O MAN wrote:
Fido and Obama want to spread poverty and disparity around... make everyone equally miserable.
You are quite wrong... Before the closures of the commons in England, there was no concept of poverty because while people might be poor, and clearly unable to support themselves on their tracts could also rely on the commons for their support... Commoners were common, but beggers were uncommon... When the rich took the heritable rights of the poor, poverty and the concern for it became wide spread... On the brights side those poor fed their lives into the industrial revolution, and made it reality as much as iron, coal and sugar... The other side was that they fed their lives into the indusrial revolution or became servants of the leading classes and never made enough in their lives to support marriage or children and so died unmorned and were never heard of again... That is the true price of poverty, the price every potential mother pays to have an abortion, and the price every old person pays to realize they do not have enough income to retire and must keep working until they drop... Were poverty is common, unhappiness is as rare as misery... A society must be divided into rich and poor to know true poverty, pain, humiliation, and misery...
Try to get by the simple fact that as a republic we should be a commonwealth, as was Greece or Rome... Consider, that if all the commonwealth were in private hands tomorrow it must still support the population, though we could never die fast enough to satisfy those who owned the land... Consider that Rome had its entitlements too, its corn dole, but that those rich who were responsible for it by setting slaves to compete against free men had a quota on the number of old slaves they could make free, which was their way of avoiding the moral and financial support of the old slaves because in the act of freeing them, they also made them citizens, and eligable for the dole.
Consider that no less happens in this land when companies relocate off from under its workers who can in no sense, move... They can seek a new community to exploit, demand new infrastructure which is easier built than maintained, and new bodies to ply their equipment... They leave behind communities with lots of old infrastructure and no tax base, and they are free to do so because they feel no moral and financial obligation to those who usually conceded too much to see their employers succeed... Think of the many billions of dollars in wealth take from Appalacia... That wealth gone, their former employers say: These people need help, and they do: mental, physical, and financial... But where are the rich to give them their due??? The rich have moved far afield and the country is left with the support of their refuse of humanity... It is not fair taxation that creates poverty, but profit and wealth that create poverty... The rich cannot be rich without the poor, without making poor people poorer...
LOL! 