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| Chris | Feb 23 2012, 03:19 AM Post #1 |
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We keep hearing about fairness from liberals but never what it means or how to measure it. The 'Fairness' Fraud
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| Stoney | Feb 23 2012, 07:39 AM Post #2 |
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The closest we will come to "fair" is equal opportunity. |
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| colo_crawdad | Feb 23 2012, 10:17 AM Post #3 |
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Are you going to argue that that a child born to a poor woman in the Bronx and a child born to an affluent couple in Connecticut actually have "equal opportunity?". |
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| Chris | Feb 23 2012, 10:25 AM Post #4 |
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I will. |
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| Thumper | Feb 23 2012, 10:49 AM Post #5 |
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You would just for the sake of argument. |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 23 2012, 12:58 PM Post #6 |
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Taxing to pay the bills isn't necessarily squandering. I assume by improving reelection prospects you mean getting earmarks or entitlements for people they represent. Worse things are happening, like giving the wealthy and corporations what they want to keep the campaign money flowing in. |
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| Stoney | Feb 23 2012, 07:28 PM Post #7 |
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Not only would I argue it, but the proof is all around us. There are more millionaires who have come from nothing, worked for it, than those born with it. Those born of a poor woman in the Bronx would have more of an opportunity if we were more interested in "teaching them how to fish" than using them to garner votes from well intentioned do gooders.
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| Stoney | Feb 23 2012, 07:32 PM Post #8 |
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"Worse things are happening, like giving the wealthy and corporations what they want to keep the campaign money flowing in." Exactly. So how could we diminish that. |
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| Chris | Feb 23 2012, 09:17 PM Post #9 |
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This 1992 Joint Economic Committee Report, Income Mobility and Economic Opportunity, concluded:
Nothing has changed, liberals still take a static view and conservatives a dynamic view. And there's still Good News on Income Mobility. |
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| Stoney | Feb 24 2012, 07:13 AM Post #10 |
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I don't know that they see anything but tribalism, and the Democrat Party is their tribe. |
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