The second problem is that the condition of the lowest on the economic ladder is a legitimate concern for government, for several reasons. Public health, crime, etc. This kind of promotion of "the general welfare" is one of the U.S. government's foundational jobs. History shows that people who are allowed to go on being desperately poor for generations, while others get richer and richer, will rise up in armed revolt sooner or later. The avoidance of revolt and civil war is pretty much the first rule of good government. Any government -- any form of government -- that can't do that is not worth having in the first place.
This was the point of my Monopoly analogy. I don't think anybody got that.
The second problem is that the condition of the lowest on the economic ladder is a legitimate concern for government, for several reasons. Public health, crime, etc. This kind of promotion of "the general welfare" is one of the U.S. government's foundational jobs. History shows that people who are allowed to go on being desperately poor for generations, while others get richer and richer, will rise up in armed revolt sooner or later. The avoidance of revolt and civil war is pretty much the first rule of good government. Any government -- any form of government -- that can't do that is not worth having in the first place.
This was the point of my Monopoly analogy. I don't think anybody got that.
Heh. That's probably because you left out the part where your brother (I think it was your brother you used to fleece) turned over the Monopoly board, disemboweled you, and hanged you with your own entrails.
The second problem is that the condition of the lowest on the economic ladder is a legitimate concern for government, for several reasons. Public health, crime, etc. This kind of promotion of "the general welfare" is one of the U.S. government's foundational jobs. History shows that people who are allowed to go on being desperately poor for generations, while others get richer and richer, will rise up in armed revolt sooner or later. The avoidance of revolt and civil war is pretty much the first rule of good government. Any government -- any form of government -- that can't do that is not worth having in the first place.
This was the point of my Monopoly analogy. I don't think anybody got that.
Heh. That's probably because you left out the part where your brother (I think it was your brother you used to fleece) turned over the Monopoly board, disemboweled you, and hanged you with your own entrails.
I mentioned him throwing the board across the room... I don't remember the rest, but I'm not saying it didn't happen.
Heh. I didn't remember the part about throwing the board across the room. Maybe if he'd thrown it at you, thereby . . . I dunno . . . decapitating you or something, we'd have gotten your point.
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