On Nov 20, 9:28*am, Jim wrote:
Lu Powell wrote:

"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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People like jps need to lose their jobs for awhile to get some sense
of reality. *They will realize the awful truth that they truly are
superfluous population and nobody really cares about their fate. *She
is correct, us capitalists truly have no need for people like her.
Once you are unemployed, you become invisible and part of "The
Problem".
I know, I been there and done that, unemployed for 5 months before
rolling the dice and starting my company using home equity and
scavenging junk to make lab equipment. *When you are the founder of a
small business who has endured just about every disaster that can
befall you, you tend to have little pity for whiners. *People like jps
are simply too lazy to live off their own mental capacity but instead
want to live off the efforts of others.
Now, I can understand younger people having to work for somebody else
for awhile cuz they don't yet have enough knowledge to be on their
own. *When you get older, instead of bitchin and whining about them
"Evil Capitalists", go to work for yourself. *If you don't yet know
how to work for yourself, then you aren't ready to do so; keep
learning and shut up until you do.
So, engage those two neurons and figure a way to work for yourself and
then you will no longer be excess population and will become part of
the solution. Creating jobs for others is the most laudable thing a
person can do but you will never get any credit for it, only the blame
for them being unhappy it isn't a "perfect job".

Amen and amen. I started life in a sawmill laborers hovel, then we moved
to a sharecroppers shack of a farm. At age 4, we moved to Miami, FL,
where I stayed till I finished high school. Eight years active duty in
Air Force, followed by 30 years law enforcement as well as 30 years in
military reserve. Along the way completed college and graduate school.

At times worked a full time plus part-time jobs to keep family fed and
sheltered. I never sponged off the public dole, never collected a dime
of unemployment pay. Some of the jobs I worked wouldn't be done by many
of our younger generation, or even of my own who believe the nanny state
should care for them from cradle to grave.

When life was its toughest, I always counted my blessings. Knowing that
life is what we make of it, I really have no patience for the bleeding
hearts who would deprive me and millions of others of their hard earned
money in order to pass along to others who can't or most often won't do
for themselves.

I willingly give to charities of my choice. I resent highly those who
would take the fruit of my labors to give to anyone else.

Life is way too short to abide the fools of this forum who brand
independent thinkers and conservatives as less than human. Their
snobbery and false superiority is sickening. And since life is too
precious to spend it in further negativity, I'm done with rec.boats. I
plonked my self from this maddening forum.

Maybe I'll see you around someday.

Sorry to see you leave, Lu. Peace be with you.

If jps thinks capitalism is bad, then she is simply doing it wrong.
It is the only system that provides a mechanism for people to obtain
economic freedom. Nobody says a person has to be a wage slave, people
sell themselves into wage slavery.
jps thinks that if I get rich by starting a company then I should
expect to be taxed an extraordinary amount? This makes no sense, why
punish success? By being successful, a person pays his dues by
providing employment. I have no problem with moderate taxation but a
system that attempts to punish success is doomed to produce mediocrity
because it rewards mediocrity.
I do not see any logical relationship between great wealth and great
responsibility. However, anybody who builds a company that generates
great wealth has also provided jobs and has fulfilled any potential
responsibility. Most people who build such wealth go far beyond that,
after all, look at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation trying to end
the greatest scourge of mankind, Malaria. Most people who build
wealth are ambitious and are not satisfied with just wealth, they want
to do more. Look at Jeff Bezos building spacecraft with his billions,
look at Elon Musk.
Other people who have simply amassed great wealth like George Soros do
it thru manipulating the system. They are not capitalists but are
statists and they do not do anything useful but are parasites. Al
Gore is another example of an economic parasite.
Historically we can look at other builders of great wealth such as the
Carnegies. Thru the Carnegie foundation they built many libraries
throughout the country and endowed many universities such as Florida A
& M, an historicaly black university started via Carnegie money. By
contrast, all Karl Marx did was produce a philosophy that murdered a
hundred million people and destroyed wealth.
Production of wealth (not just its accumulation) is the highest form
of altruism and should be rewarded.