Adam Caramon
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I apologize if I disrespected you in an attempt to set the record straight, especially when I feel that they (the Democrats) are not heroic in their attempt to redistribute wealth ... especially since they are announcing to do it on a global scale.
No apology needed, I didn't feel disrespected, just wanted to explain why I thought it was an apt analogy.
If your opinion is that tyranny is good and wish to propel the notion of a twisted story and elevate the looters of productive people to heroic status, then that too, is your opinion and I hope that you come out for the better when it happens - even though history has told us that noone except for the elite few make out and the rest suffer as noted in the stories past down to us.
I hereby award you the longest run-on sentence in the world trophy .
On this subject I am pretty far outside of mainstream thought:
Wealth is represented by pieces of paper in our society. People will do things for you if you give them some of your pieces of paper. If you have enough pieces of paper, you never have to work a day in your life. You can live in a life of luxury, simply because you have a lot of pieces of paper.
The number of pieces of paper you have is largely determined by how many your parents had. If your parents had a lot of pieces of paper, you have a significant edge over other children who's parents didn't have as many pieces of paper. You will be more likely to succeed in life, and thus obtain more pieces of paper than others.
This system works great, assuming you're one of the people with a lot of pieces of paper. However, if you do not have a lot of pieces of paper, you start to wonder why someone, based soley on birth, is entitled to live a better life than someone who doesn't.
pbaldy said:There's a big difference between "taking back" and "taking from anybody who has more than I do".
That's true, but it is all a matter of scope. History is full of people taking things from other people. After enough time is passed, they feel that they then own whatever it was they took. Most wealthy families, where money is handed down generation after generation, took from people (exploited them) along the way to obtain their fortunes.