tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313074299520796798.post8681271229570905399..comments2023-10-20T06:08:01.864-07:00Comments on MOCKBADOC: Don't Be That Guymockbadochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04276624324142418154noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313074299520796798.post-5439835701816744922009-05-01T01:05:00.000-07:002009-05-01T01:05:00.000-07:00Doc,
There's a quote (most often attributed to Al...Doc,<br /><br />There's a quote (most often attributed to Alexander Tyler):<br /><br />"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury."<br /><br />Fitting to the 'T', don't you think?<br /><br />Most people I know love to "soak the rich". However, those same people hardly recognize nor realize HOW some people become RICH in the first place!<br /><br />To them, it doesn't matter!<br /><br />To such people, "capitalism" is just the image of the "cigar chewing fat-cat in a pin stripe suit wallowing in money".<br /><br />But to people like me - exposed to decades of socialist planning throughout my life as I was growing up - "capitalism" is the 'natural order' of the free market.<br /><br />Like I'm fond of saying: "I'd rather live in a tent under capitalism than in a palace under socialism".<br /><br />There's just something to be said about the safeguard of 'property rights' that a true, capitalist society provides ... which is all together lacking in socialist/statist societies.Spook, RNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11085577662135429417noreply@blogger.com