Socialist Stupidity

“If your answer is always take from the rich and give to the poor your thinking is a box and you can’t think outside the box.”  

The idea of Robin Hood was preceeded by the idea of ‘war’.  For thousands of years tribes , then nations coveted their neighbours possessions so took them. Today the war is done, not under the guise, of ‘God’s Will’, “Might is right’ but rather the idea of “Redistribution”.  

What we see with war is that a few become rich for a short time. There are countless examples of failed revolutions. I loved the Beatles song, “We don’t want a revolution.”  

The principle modern distribution of wealth advocate is someone who is actually making the most money offering to redistribute other peoples wealth.  It is hard for many to believe who aren’t in business but ‘government is big business’. It’s a competing “big business’.  By contrast with other businesses that work on a ‘voluntary basis’ , government has police and army to impose it’s will.  

Once government was ‘of the people for the people’.  It is not to day. There are lobbyists and protectionism and corporate and individual corruption and graft. 

These need to be addressed.  

The poor benefit today by making themselves rich not by ‘redistribution’ but rather by creating new avenues of wealth and by work and unionizing. The ‘free hand out’ of the government is simply not free.  It creates dependency and division.  All the ‘free stuff’ government gives is ‘stolen’ .  Stealing eventually creates retaliation. It’s tied to political favouritism. Retaliation creates war and that creates more poor and mostly hurts the poor most.

Government does serve in areas where the profit margin is lowest and potential gain is furthest in the future. Rather than get ‘free’ stuff which makes one a ‘kept person’ , offering reasonable reward for work in such areas is the age old success story.  

Drug and alcohol are a principle treatable cause of poverty today.  Recovery homes, mandated and voluntary, are the answer.  These need to be supported.  Criminal enterprises need to be shut down.  Government corruption and participation in criminals cover up is critical.  Government’s job is to ensure that reasonable laws are maintained so that playing fields are as level as possible. Why should I work all day when either a criminal or socialist government agent can take my work at the end of the day while they strutted and styled and played all day?  

Creativity and hard work blossom in areas of ‘fairness’.   Government has an obligation to serve as a kind of referee in the economic game.  It is never good as a primary producer.  Government simply can’t compete with free enterprise in the market place because governments are inefficient and corrupt in times of peace, only becoming partially more successful in times of war.  

Canada’s black market appears increasingly more lucrative than it’s actual market place.  The failure of government and management is evident in the recent revelations of multi billion dollar criminals enterprises from drug production and distribution, money launderer and child sex rings. Black markets can only exist with the knowledge and involvement of government.  

I will worry more about the ‘poor’ when I hear of judges,politicians and government beurocrats being jailed or hung in large numbers. I’m still waiting for the boards of tobacco companies to be lined up against the wall and shot. That would definitely help the poor. 

This is thinking outside the box.