Quote of the Day...a greater truth has hardly ever been said

[OnePimpTiger]

I've been reading, listening, spewing, and regurgitating about politics for quite a while now and rarely is there something that gives me the Gru "light bulb" any more...but this did:

I think there needs to be nobody in the society who has nothing to lose when the government wastes money.

From Thomas Sowell, a great economic mind. I've always thought everyone should earn their keep and pay their fair share (and if your fair share is 0, you better not be breathing)...maybe it's just me, but this was a new way of looking at it.

[habsheaven]

I would not want to live in a society where this applies ... "and if your fair share is 0, you better not be breathing" Societies such as these exist in the Third World.

The reality of our society today (Canada and the US) is that we have a very large class of people that are the "working poor". Not everyone can afford retirement funds, nor do they work for companies offering pension funds. Someone has to perform the minimum wage jobs.

What happens to these people in YOUR society? They end up old, homeless and hungry when they can no longer work, and eventually die on the street? We have enough of that going on now.

[11chaos]

Sometimes the hugging has to stop.

[sanfran22]

Thomas Sowell is great........And please point me to a homeless old person. I know alot of people rich and poor and have never met one. We here in these two countries have it alot better then anywhere else. Our poor would live like kings in many other countries. I think it's time to step back and appreciate how well we have it for once...

[habsheaven]

You've never seen a homeless old person? Really? Try volunteering at a soup kitchen, you will see plenty.

"We here in these two countries have it alot better then anywhere else." That is the point I was getting at. If we changed our society to what OPT would like, we (not you or I) would no longer have it better than anywhere else.

[sanfran22]

You've never seen a homeless old person? Really? Try volunteering at a soup kitchen, you will see plenty.

"We here in these two countries have it alot better then anywhere else." That is the point I was getting at. If we changed our society to what OPT would like, we (not you or I) would no longer have it better than anywhere else.

I think we have differing views of what that quote was meaning..... My point was the old, homeless and dying on the street is an extreme overexaggeration.

[habsheaven]

I think we have differing views of what that quote was meaning..... My point was the old, homeless and dying on the street is an extreme overexaggeration.

Okay, if you think it is an exaggeration, tell me what would happen with the people "no longer able to earn their keep"? What do you think OPT has in mind for them?

BTW, I am not referring to the "quote". I am referring to OPT's interpretation of the quote. I think the quote means something entirely different, but I do not know enough about the man saying it to be confident in my interpretation of it.

[gatorboymike]

I've always thought everyone should earn their keep and pay their fair share (and if your fair share is 0, you better not be breathing)...maybe it's just me, but this was a new way of looking at it.

Hmmm, that sounds familiar...where have I heard that before...oh yes.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

There's no old, poor, homeless people dying on the streets huh? Yeah, and you would be an expert on that, wouldn't you? "Well, I've looked over every square inch of my swanky country club and I didn't see a single homeless person anywhere! Bluh-huh-huh! These liberals are most unorthodox, wouldn't you say, Aloysius?"

Here's one of MY favorite quotes:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

[sanfran22]

Hmmm, that sounds familiar...where have I heard that before...oh yes.



Here's one of MY favorite quotes:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

You think that Marx quote says the same thing as Sowell?? Wow.
How many old, homeless, dying on the streets do you know?

[gatorboymike]

You think that Marx quote says the same thing as Sowell?? Wow.
How many old, homeless, dying on the streets do you know?

Sunny Jim, I couldn't walk two blocks in any direction from the UF campus without running across 4 or 5 of them.

And no, I think that Marx quote says the same thing as OPT. You'd know that if you actually looked at who I was quoting.