Marxist
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- Apr 19, 2015
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You're talking about liberals I've never met, and the liberals in positions of government obviously don't listen to his insanity on poor people.Alexander Pope wrote "A little learning is a dangerous thing"
Wow does that apply to environmentalists/Liberals!
7. One of the ironies of Liberalism....rife with inconsistencies.....is that they rely on Malthus to inform their environmental policies, and the view that mankind is incapable of taking care of it's problems without those brilliant elites using coercion, regulation, gulags, etc.....
But they overlook the fact that Malthus was totally opposed to welfare policies that support the poor. He claimed that by doing so, we ensure that the poor will have more children....leading to the worst sort of overpopulation.
Malthus wrote:
"The poor laws of England tend to depress the general conditions of the poor. ... Their first obvious tendency is to increase population without increasing the food for its support. A poor man may marry with little or no prospect of being able to support a family without parish assistance. They may be said, therefore, to create the poor which they maintain. . . .
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and that there is no occasion to exercise any prudence in the affair of marriage so as to check this number, the temptations, according to all the known principles of human nature, will inevitably be yielded to, and more and more will gradually become dependent on parish assistance."
Malthus, Essay on Population, Book III, Ch. VI and VII.
More evidence of stupidity .....beyond who Liberals voted for.