This sort of thing just pisses me off. A once great city in what was once, and still only just is, the greatest country on the planet. Left in ruins by a bunch of do gooders. From where I stand (Timaru, New Zealand), The greatest country on earth is in a state of crisis. It has been for 30 years. The entitlement mentality and the belief of the average American that they don't need to work is bringing the country crashing down. Stop voting for politicians who promise to pay you, with other peoples money, to do what you should be doing yourself. Tell the public service to BUTT OUT OF YOUR LIFE! Stop printing money. Produce something that someone else actually wants to buy, rather than just clipping the ticket on imported Chinese crap. Profit is good. Take America back. She is still the land of the free. Fuck Obama and GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Watching this I feel two emotions, sad, sad for all the lost dreams, and anger. Angry as hell because these socialist do gooders never change and never learn.
Now there is a coincidence! The bottom 43% of NZ households receive more state funded income support than the pay in income tax, so they effectively pay no income tax. They see tax cuts for the wealthy as 'giving' to the wealthy, but a failure of government to increase welfare payments to the poor, paid for by income tax from the wealthy, as "taking away" from the poor. The entitlement mentality in full swing. Welfare pays people for their mistakes. It incentivises bad behavior.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, food stamps, free housing, free tuition, free medical services, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, some Air Jordans and promise him that anybody who works will be taxed up to the yazoo to pay for it all, and he'll vote Democrat for a lifetime (from Wirecutter).
Unfortunately there is no way to change those idiots who think they can vote themselves rich. Joseph Farah on why democracy doesn't work; "(democracy)...can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that the democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the worlds greatest civilisations is 200 years."
We need strong leadership, not political populists and appeasers using our money to buy votes. In the words of Winston Churchill, "an appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Interesting that in one of the early scenes was a mosque.
ReplyDeleteMore commonly called "Detoilet"
ReplyDeleteThe cops recently passed out "enter at your own risk" leaflets.
This sort of thing just pisses me off. A once great city in what was once, and still only just is, the greatest country on the planet. Left in ruins by a bunch of do gooders. From where I stand (Timaru, New Zealand), The greatest country on earth is in a state of crisis. It has been for 30 years. The entitlement mentality and the belief of the average American that they don't need to work is bringing the country crashing down. Stop voting for politicians who promise to pay you, with other peoples money, to do what you should be doing yourself. Tell the public service to BUTT OUT OF YOUR LIFE! Stop printing money. Produce something that someone else actually wants to buy, rather than just clipping the ticket on imported Chinese crap. Profit is good. Take America back. She is still the land of the free. Fuck Obama and GOD BLESS AMERICA!
ReplyDeleteYou're preaching to the choir here, Mike.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that 47% of the people pay NO income tax, and they vote to keep the "free" stuff coming.
As Margaret Thatcher said, "The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money".
And a whole lot of us would go Galt if we could....
Watching this I feel two emotions, sad, sad for all the lost dreams, and anger. Angry as hell because these socialist do gooders never change and never learn.
ReplyDeleteNow there is a coincidence! The bottom 43% of NZ households receive more state funded income support than the pay in income tax, so they effectively pay no income tax. They see tax cuts for the wealthy as 'giving' to the wealthy, but a failure of government to increase welfare payments to the poor, paid for by income tax from the wealthy, as "taking away" from the poor. The entitlement mentality in full swing. Welfare pays people for their mistakes. It incentivises bad behavior.
ReplyDeleteGive a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, food stamps, free housing, free tuition, free medical services, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, some Air Jordans and promise him that anybody who works will be taxed up to the yazoo to pay for it all, and he'll vote Democrat for a lifetime (from Wirecutter).
Unfortunately there is no way to change those idiots who think they can vote themselves rich. Joseph Farah on why democracy doesn't work; "(democracy)...can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that the democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the worlds greatest civilisations is 200 years."
We need strong leadership, not political populists and appeasers using our money to buy votes. In the words of Winston Churchill, "an appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."