[quote]Headhunter wrote:
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
Altruism was created by the animal nature, look at ants, bees, wolves, horses, lions look at mothers.
I do not think many people like the idea of feeding the lazy. But in America over my life time the middle class has shrunk considerably and we are going to have more and more poor people if we do not stop the pendulum swing from profiting the upper one percent.
Middle class is almost non existent. You have a vast number of poor a shrinking number of middle class and a very small percentage at the top that are profiting from policy and not any form of superiority.
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Animals are programmed and are violent. Aren’t we better than that? Sure, we CAN be violent but how do you force someone to think, to invent? North Korea is a prime example of government by force. Want to live there?
If unselfishness is moral, then why is it also moral to force someone to share, at gunpoint? That’s what government does.
Do you think that the middle class can be restored at gunpoint? The only way government does anything is by violence or threats of violence. Taxes are paid because of fear that IRS agents will kick down your door. Surely you don’t want that.
Creating a government and giving it the power to force ‘sharing the wealth’ creates a government using guns and jails to force equality. The end result will be North Korea or Nazi Germany, here in America. I’ll pass.
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I think the human is by far the most violent animal.
I think when you are talking about the Gov. putting a gun to your head, I assume you are talking taxes; I have no defense about taxes other than the Constitution gives our Gov. a right to tax us. I have yet to see a section that the Gov. is limited in any fashion other than with out representation.
I know your son is going to West Point; you have every right to be extremely proud of him. But I personally do not like the amount of money that America sends to other counties, Builders of war making machines and Soldiers.
Right now in America, how many veterans is America supporting in early retirement. I can tell you a lot. I am not saying that we do not owe them, I just am very unhappy that we can not realize the full cost of these wars that make no difference to you or I.
This is where the money the Gov. is spending that they extract from you at gun point.