What do you call it when..............?

[BlueStreak]

.............you reform society so that the safety net is weakened, or even eliminated as I've heard some of my countrymen suggest, so that; "Those who do not work, shall not eat."?

If you hold wages down crippling the ability of millions of Americans to save for their own financial security and/or retirement, then eliminate the social safety net so that few people have any choice but to continue working, no matter what life issues or working conditions one may encounter.......

What do you call that?

Mull it over for a while.

Dave

[finnbow]

Conservatism.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Conservatism.

As a real conservative I would suggest it is more like the followers of Ayn Rand whatever in hell their idea should be called. It took her nearly 1000 pages to expound her theories in Atlas Shrugged. Gordon Gekko said it in three words.

[donquixote99]

And George Orwell called it "Imagine a boot stomping on a face forever." It goes further than greed.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

And George Orwell called it "Imagine a boot stomping on a face forever." It goes further than greed.

It sure does.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Conservatism.

Yeah, that's the nice sounding label they've stuck on it. But, what is it when you create conditions meant to use economic pressure, rather than incentive, to induce people to work?

Instead of "Hard work has rewards." we change to "Work hard or we'll starve you.".

What is that?

Dave

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

.............you reform society so that the safety net is weakened, or even eliminated as I've heard some of my countrymen suggest, so that; "Those who do not work, shall not eat."?

If you hold wages down crippling the ability of millions of Americans to save for their own financial security and/or retirement, then eliminate the social safety net so that few people have any choice but to continue working, no matter what life issues or working conditions one may encounter.......

What do you call that?

Mull it over for a while.

Dave

I call it this...

http://www.politicalchat.org/showpos...48&postcount=5

[nailer]

Originally Posted by merrylander

As a real conservative I would suggest it is more like the followers of Ayn Rand whatever in hell their idea should be called. It took her nearly 1000 pages to expound her theories in Atlas Shrugged. Gordon Gekko said it in three words.

And it's one of the deadly sins.

After reading The Fountainhead, I had no to desire to read Atlas Shrugged. Is Atlas shrugging because a universal higher authority wouldn't give a damn how we treat each other?

[merrylander]

Read them both at seventeen when I was still a liberal. Even so I figured it was all BS. They even made a movie out of The Fountain head if memory serves, what a waste of good 35mm filmstock.

[piece-itpete]

What do you call forced payment into a retirement fund that spends the money?

Pete