gturk wrote:
You must be referring to the Cult of Redistribution.
Tis true that as these accusatory options for blaming others are displayed here, it becomes hard to tell who's potshotting from what shifting position to gain better fire lines at friend and foe and own foot. As the Bastiat quote shows, the 19th century is a fount of apologies for wizened rapacity, as are those stuck in that time warp of heyday national and indiivudal self-destruction in the cause of unshakeable rigteousness, an affliction far from cured in nations and individuals wanting to be Number One while totally whacked out on ... take your pick from the socio-politico-econo bazaar, most of which derives from the days of pre-Bastiat and now recycled by crazy-lazy-minded 20th century rip-offers of the insecurely rich. Will evolution in action ever kick in, or will the promise of it, like dreams of social justice and faith in the constitution and arms, forever cheat the maniacally despairing with so few other choices for peace of mind? Are there any reliable prefabricated alternatives from history, from today, to self-imposed sheepledom of your sole invention? Now, to move on to the day's news: Is Tim going to be kidnapped by a gang of mixed breed cops and ammo merchants, shot instantly and chained in dugout till his loved redeems his maggoty carcass by redistributing his nestegg? That's the topic of the NYT's lead business story today, the need for secret ransom insurance, so secret that it does not make you a free-for-taking target like the usual unwise display of peacockery. Hide it if you got it, hide your lush affiliations too, the poor reporters advise, or the world's scum with nothing else to do but watch and wait are gonna snag your unsmart ass when you least expect it, now as in ages past, unless, to be sure, more scum-world guardians are hired and more big-nuke prayerbooks and ransom policys are arsenaled bedside, 4X, ankle and thigh.