All these poor people who talk about how they've been "robbed", how they've been "cheated", are so full of sh!t. How could someone rob you when you never had anything to begin with? "Durr gimme yo moneyz durr"
All they know how to do is tear down and destroy. And they have their reward. And those who would rather build up and create, have their reward as well. We know them as Rockefellers, Fords, Carnegies, Edisons, and Gates'. History forgets its destroyers and attackers rather quickly, but those who give to the world are showered with wealth, fame, honor, and remembrance. As it should be.
I am not without sympathy for the poor. But when they gang up and try to tear down the society that supports them, or to use our elections as a means to steal wealth from those who earned it, well I have to choose a side in that instance. And I stick with the winners.
And I don't believe our system is perfect either. Fiat money is a dubious venture, we should go back to the gold standard. It was troublesome before because we got it wrong; but the lessons we have learned from our fiat fiascos, and over time, have put us in a position where we now know how to do the gold standard the right way. Can you imagine it, a stable currency without fear of inflation? It's gonna happen. The problem is that smarmy college professors have been teaching us for 50 years that gold is for hicks who hide their money in a mattress and have a fallout shelter under their house. Note: those feminist college professors probably get spanked by their mannish wives with 14 last names. Get real, any money that is not based on gold isn't money.
The disparation of wealth in this country is not based upon some grand conspiracy, or the collusive efforts of lobbyists. The biggest contributor to the "rich getting richer" is our Federal tax code. How much money you make doesn't matter; it's how you make it that counts. Ie: if you make your money as an employee, fifty cents of every dollar you make goes to the government, before you even see it. Then the rest is diluted through sales taxes and other bs. On the other hand, business owners and investors have tax shelters. That's it.
This isn't priveleged information, anybody can learn it: the middle class taxpayer is the pack mule of society. The people under him don't pay any taxes at all, all they do is whine and say "MORE!", and the people over him have tax shelters that allow them to grow their wealth. So in the absence of some horrible hardships that truly prevent people from obtaining wealth, most never become wealthy because they are not smart and driven enough to do so.
It's so much easier for them to whine and complain about how they've been held down, than to look in the mirror and discover the REAL cause of all their problems.
