Killing the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs

Judging by the lack of comments to your threads you appear to be shouting to an empty auditorium. Those who care have made up their minds and those who don’t aren’t listening. For every persuasive argument you put forth those opposed to your position can put fourth an equally persuasive argument to support their position. For every study, piece of evidence or set of statistics you put fourth those opposed to your position can put fourth their own studies, evidence and statistics to support their position. The term confirmation bias is a term you should familiarize yourself with. As a committed progressive arguing with conservatives doesn’t really interest me, just like arguing with climate change sceptics doesn’t really interest me, for to do so would be to waste precious time taking action to support people who want more progressive government and action on climate change. As far as we are concerned there is no debate, we had it and the conservatives and climate change deniers lost, winning them over is no longer of interest to us we’re all about pushing forward with the solution.

Still the lack of comments on your threads points to a failed blog.
If you’re such a bastion for capitalism why are you wasting your time pissing around with an irrelevant website rather than oh I don’t know running a business or running for office?

As long as the people of the world have to suffer the ravages of capitalism the demand for socialism will always be present whether it’s via the Greens, the Progressives or the Collectivists. The sad thing for a wannabe Conservative like you is that you’re actually deluded enough to think that you’re on the same side as people like G W Bush and all of his friends in the ruling class. Those people couldn’t give a shit about you or any other ordinary Americans; to them you wannabe Conservatives are no different to Liberals or anyone else. There’re just two sides in this Class War the ruling class and the rest of us. Whether you vote for the Republicans or not, if you’re not part of the ruling class then you’re with the rest us. So instead of being a class traitor, a brown nose and a scab by spruiking ruling class propaganda become a patriot. A patriot fights for what’s best for the majority of their countrymen not the privileged few, a patriot fights to protect their land not help polluters destroy it.

I wish you well kid and I hope you get the help you need.

Is the administrator of this site American or British? Because I’ve noticed that there’s a Brit called Philip Thomas who runs a very similar blog.

Thanks Captain Ramvan. Some bring supportive arguments for socialism that are nothing more than an appeal to one’s emotions, i.e. what about poor people, where’s your compassion, don’t be a traitor to your class, etc. But all those are irrelevant since no good intentions will ever make it work in the real world.

BTW, you’re already getting ready for the 2012 elections with a new domain name?

No worries, Philip.

What are you thoughts on Ron Paul? I.E his chances of becoming President in 2012 and on his views overall.

Come on, Philip, stop being so precious. I’m just asking all the capitalists I know of what they think about him because I find his views interesting. As for Obama I’ve never been a fan of his. When he was running for office I suspected he was making promises he couldn’t keep and that’s turned out to be the case.

“So instead of being a class traitor, a brown nose and a scab by spruiking ruling class propaganda become a patriot. A patriot fights for what’s best for the majority of their countrymen not the privileged few, a patriot fights to protect their land not help polluters destroy it”–Chris from this board.

There were absolutely no points made in that argument. I’m assuming this guy is fighting to protect his own interests of usurping value for himself and wants to drag everyone else into it through aimed guilt and force.

Actually, I don’t have to assume that. It’s a fact that the only way people that believe in exploiting everybody for a “higher good” can succeed in initiating it fully into society is through placing false guilt on the people and using governmental force and violence.

Every socialist I’ve met has only had views that contradict themselves. I.E. “ruling class propoganda.” Every socialist has spewed some socialist propoganda that they’ve heard from another. On this board, Chris has just made his own propoganda, and it’s ridden with guilt and non-sequitors that could very well be the words from an angry and oppressed follower of a modern Joseph Stalin.

Non-sequitors are the worse kind of false argument, and it seems to be the favorite tool of the unwise and greedy. This is, of course, because guilt ridden and uneducated people have a very hard time seeing through the BS of the non-sequitor. And without bias, I will say that an educated and genuinely wise person would never create a non-sequitor as an argument–it simply has no truth.

Those who believe in the benevolent factors of capitalism seem to be the only ones who make connections to real human nature and use rational thoughts and actions. The only way I’ve seen lowly, socialist individuals act to to thwart inequality is through brutal violence. Human nature and rational thinking immensely tie into the importance of individual rights. Individual rights are the fundaments of free men, and a person’s soul and the principles of the free market are the only things that seem to support them!

This reminds me of the following definition, which is the real dictionary meaning of being a Patriot:

-Noun- a person who regards himself or herself as a defender, especially of individual rights, against presumed interference by the federal government.

The middle class is the goose that laid the golden eggs for the capitalist farmers. Hat’s off to both workers and entrepreneurs. Only problem: The middle class wealth is shrinking while the farmer’s is growing. E.g 1% of the “farmers” now receive 20% of the income, taxed at one of the lowest rates in history — compared to 8% in the 1970′s. What will happen to those wonderful entrepreneurs when the number of geese keeps dwindling and they get to keep less and less of the golden eggs they produce so that they are less and less capable of buying all the things they produce — like homes, for example?

Socialism is not the answer to our problems. Neither is the kind of capitalism that is on the road to killing the geese laying the golden eggs that keeps them in business. As more and more people become like you, not knowing the difference between a goose and a farmer, the U.S. will continue on the suicidal path. I urge America’s middle class and capitalists rather than fight this ridiculous war which will wipe out capitalism (for all but the super rich) after it wipes out the middle class.