Quantum Windbag
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It's an election year and we will be hearing a lot if bull shit. No bigger pile of crap than "income equality" or lack thereof.
While we should have equality of opportunity (and we do), no one has a right to equality of outcome. The outcome of your opportunity is entirely up to you.
This whole issue is nothing but "spreading the wealth around" rehashed. Obama and the democrats didn't do anything about income equality in the first 5 years, in fact the gap has gotten worse, so they think that if they call it something else they can repackage it and sell it to the sheeple again and they will buy it. They have no real plan to do anything about it but campaign on it.
Equality of opportunity - free capitalist society
Equality of outcome - oppressive socialist society
You know I am conservative.
But I don't agree that we have equality of opportunity. And I am not talking about the poor.
There is so much wealth concentration that I believe we have people who are literally buying political systems (and these systems are populated with people who want to be bought) to protect their wealth.
There is nothing new in that, it has been that way since the dawn of man. There is no new ground being plowed here.
The USA in 1776 was the best change to change that but now we have allowed ourselves to revert to a feudal system with the govt as the king.
The best chance to change it is here and now.