Scratch A Prog...

"This is the flaw in the entire premise of the American Dream: if we can have it all, it must by definition be at someone else’s expense.

This is what progressives believe, folks.

If you see a well-off person, what you're really seeing is the face of someone who stepped on dozens of poorer folk to get to where he's at.

That is to say, the face of an oppressor who deserves to be stomped into the dust.
Progs are communists who are too cowardly to do what their forbears did in grabbing rifles and shooting the kulaks and wreckers."

Monster! What about the....children!!!

I just found out that in my business the government can come in and remove me as administrator in my own business if I don't play ball with them.

Partners my ass. That they have that card close to their chests is outrageous. But they do.

That folks is what we call TYRANNY.

Alas, I'm not encouraged that we'll see true reforms ever take place. People are too addicted to free shit and feel that most of the ills and problems fall on private enterprise.

My close friend, who is a property owner and is in a high income bracket, is 'not complaining' the government takes as much as they do from his earnings. Only when I break it down for him does he begin to sorta get it. It boggles the mind. Apparently, taking an average of 55-60% of his money is fine by him because 'we're lucky we have things like public daycare.'

I lost.

I read him the riot act and explained to him how he's getting raped.

"Well, I don't look at things like that."

Well, I do I told him. It's irrational to take such a position economically speaking.  To him, a Laval mayor stealing $40 million from the public trough is normal. It's nuts.

I also take offense he keeps bringing up the benefits of subsidized daycare when he knows full well I'm private non-subisdized.

He went on to absurdly claim the government run liquor board does a 'good job of offering a wide array of selections.'

Fucking bull shit. The government doesn't gauge demand like a private enterprise does. Nor does it offer competitive prices because of mark ups tied to guaranteed high wages. I gave him the example of 'deregulating' the industry (a bad word on the continent these days). If the government got out of the way, people would enter the market and change it for the better. Everyone would carry their own private collection to take to market. Never mind it would mean more tax revenues and jobs in a province that can't really do without it.

Jesus christ. We've lost that basic ability to see the benefits to this.

It's FREE-ENTERPRISE that built our society. Not state-sponsored, centralized government initiatives. It's rarely been the case, in history, where coercive government action built mighty societies. Fair taxes and a sense of voluntary pride to community did.

We've lost the plot.

Anyway on it went with a bunch of vapid left-wing musings like "it's deregulation that causes economic malaise." I proceeded to offer him multiple examples (including my own) to the contrary. We're OVER-REGULATED and government agencies like the FCC, CRTC, EPA and others like it carrying way, way too much power that offer is subject to abuse and corruption.

But no one cares.

The benign lust of socialism wrapped in rational guise and democratic rhetoric runs deep.

Too deep.