It just kills me that so many liberals buy into this crap.
A comment on ZH:
No man is an island (John Donne) - and you are bright enough to know that.
You were not born knowing how to think, so who helped you learn how? Who made the computer you used to post your comment? Who created the internet you used to post your comment? Who created Zerohedge, the place where you have posted your comment? Who created the language you use? Who taught that language to you?
Your comment would not have even been formulated, much less passed from you to others through Zerohedge, without the effort of many people who are not you.
No one does anything all by themselves. Every one of you already know that. So stop with the stupid
In that case I owe my teachers for services he/she provided, not the government. Not everyone is educated in a failing govt school- but we are all forced at gunpoint to pay for the education of others if we are successful enough, and don't have to pay a dime we we are lousy, useless noncontributing zeros.
In that case I owe the people who produced my computer- not the government. Not everyone's computer was paid for by a govt program. but we are all forced at gunpoint to pay for computers for others if we are successful enough, and don't have to pay a dime we we are lousy, useless noncontributing zeros.
In that case I owe the people who provide my internet access - and I pay them monthly. Not everyone's internet access is paid for by a govt program. but we are all forced at gunpoint to pay for the others access if we are successful enough, and don't have to pay a dime we we are lousy, useless noncontributing zeros.
Zerohedge offers a commenting service for free- because they sell my eyeballs to people looking to advertise. This is called a free transaction entered into willingly because both parties feel they benefit. Government programs use force and threat of force to coerce transactions in which one of the parties receives little or no benefit, but others get to use that money to buy votes and power.
Language? Language is Free as a cultural right - because no one needs to be enslaved to provide it. No one invented it. Like Markets, and like our original government, it came about because FREE INDIVIDUALS feet they had a need for it and participated voluntarily in its creation and use. If govt is giving us more than what we pay for, why are they still able to spend 75% of the federal budget on entitlement payments that give money to people for doing nothing and who provide no services either to me or to the State?
No Man is an Island, and EVERY HONEST MAN knows they cannot consume more than they produce. The government is our servant, and we must pay for the services rendered. It does not follow that we must also pay for a lazy useless class of childish neanderthals who feel that the labor of others is their right because they are unable or unwilling to earn their own keep. The question isn't one of if we are Islands. The question is one of if my associations with others are voluntary or at the point of a gun.
