“What the poor most need,” says conservative icon, Thomas Sowell, “is to stop being poor.” And the best way to lift the most poor people out of poverty on a mass scale?
Via an economy that creates vast wealth, like a capitalist economy.
A capitalist economy encourages not only more business, but more business growth. It creates more jobs of every sort, so that more people of varying skill levels can work and make a living. From there it is up to the individual to govern their life and finances in a way that they don’t have to be poor anymore, however that is defined. There isn’t a second system, another or better way to create wealth and banish poverty. Wherever they are found on planet earth, human beings improve their financial situation and social status via work and employment, and ultimately capitalism.
Universally, this is how it works, is how human beings thrive, survive, and escape poverty. The only people who don’t seem to understand that this is how it works, are liberals. Sowell says that liberals think money is a sourceless commodity that just exists somewhere, and that they have a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. Great respect for Sowell, and perhaps his remarks are in jest.
But, au contraire …
Liberals know exactly where wealth comes from and how it is produced. Moreover, they know precisely where to find it. They constantly accuse entrepreneurs and business owners of being too wealthy and greedy, and of taking advantage of working men and women. Why target these particular people?
Because that is where all the serious money resides, and the largest concentrations.
So, don’t be fooled. Liberals don’t think money just exists somewhere in a large heap sourceless. If that were true, they wouldn’t know exactly who to target and where to find it. Liberals are the money version of Bloodhounds; they are Moneyhounds, a relatively new breed. Money can run, but it can’t hide. Make no mistake, liberals thoroughly understand the concept of wealth, and when it comes to money that defines and facilitates it, they have but one, singular goal: confiscating, re-distributing, and ultimately controlling it.
In other words, liberals understand capitalism and the benefits of capitalism to the societal poor full well. They don’t really care about the poor or getting people out of poverty, mind you, but they nonetheless use that fraud as a pretext to enrich themselves with OPM, Other People’s Money.
Or rather, hard-earned taxpayer income.
Liberals confiscate the money—yes, they just take it, because government can. Then they pass it around to various government agencies and political causes, which benefits liberals politically, or rather, electorally, which then leads to a hefty public service salary, naturally. Then the money they dole out to all those agencies and causes, the hard-earned taxpayer income, it returns to their campaign coffers and personal checking accounts, too.
With a side-eye wink, “Sure would appreciate a campaign donation,” liberals say to all the cause and agency heads. And everyone understands the tone. In fact, they don’t need to be asked. Government programs and massive government bureaucracy equal political and personal wealth.
Or to be more direct and crystal clear: liberals steal the hard-earned income of the American people for themselves.
An obscene amount of the people’s money flows into the United States treasury, and liberals’ sole interest is exploiting as much of it as possible to personal and political benefit. Hence, despite their duplicitous protestations to the contrary, liberals actually love capitalism; in terms of wealth creation, it’s the easiest, most exploitable game in town. Capitalism is how the world universally works, and liberals know exactly how to make it benefit them. They know exactly where the money is, and all they have to do is accuse the people that have more of it:
“You rich billionaires need to pay your fair share!”
Of course, “billionaires” really means: any and every entrepreneur nationwide with elevated cash flow, proven by the income limit liberals set which is much, much lower than “billionaire” status. Simply, liberals want more taxation and more government programs and a larger government bureaucracy, because it means more money for them to exploit, and more opportunity to steal it. And if you think you are the unaffected working man and woman with your comparatively small-time paycheck. Think again. Gas taxes. Property taxes. And gee, what is that “fed income” deduction on your paycheck stub?
Liberals thank you for your contributions, too.
They need it to continue their war against those greedy “billionaires” on your behalf.
Basically, liberals are the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, on the phone with his latest investment sucker: “The reason for the call today, John, is something just came across my desk, John. It is perhaps the best thing I’ve seen in the last six months! If you have sixty-seconds, I’d like to share the idea with you. You got a minute?”
Likewise, all liberals do with their political apparatus is con voters—the intellectually and instinctually weakest voters, that is—into envying the wealth of their fellow citizens; into jealousy; into believing the wealth of their fellow citizens is unjustified and unearned, and even stolen. Meanwhile, liberals grow the size of government, agency by agency and cause by cause, to create a revenue stream of taxpayer cash for their collective campaigns and themselves.
What a great economic system and country!—liberals say quietly to themselves, while publicly ridiculing trickledown economics, “billionaires,” and capitalism … the only economic system in the world that can help human beings escape poverty on a mass scale, which liberals only exploit.
So, like Belfort, liberals are just low-life con artists masquerading as statesmen and important persons of affairs. They aren’t interested in climate change, or lifting the poor out of poverty, or economic concepts, or anything else. They are interested in getting their cut of the American people’s hard-earned income. It’s the entire political game for liberals. The day-to-day political drama is just performance art, the “compassionate” show that liberals put on to conceal their con and their effortless [liberals snickering] heist of the American people’s income.
This is precisely why liberals and their established order have gone after Donald Trump with such reckless abandon for the past 11 years. Trump understood what they were doing, what they had been doing for decades, in fact: stealing the American people’s money, filling their political coffers, and enriching themselves personally. That is what the whole Trump era has been about. Trump saying, It’s the American people’s money and, you, liberal and GOP politicians and, you, liberal establishment, are going to stop ripping them off and bleeding them out! It’s not your money; it’s the people’s money. And your grand, sleazy, self-enriching political con is over.
For obvious reasons, establishment liberals disliked this arrangement. So, they tried everything from treasonous plots to assassination attempts to keep things exactly as they were, their lucrative arrangement and con intact and producing at current levels. These people aren’t interested in “public service.”
They are interested in enriching themselves with taxpayer income.
Raging hypocrites they are, liberals are doing exactly what they accuse billionaires and business owners of doing. Only, unlike billionaires and business owners, liberals don’t provide a single thing to the economic process. Not-a-single-thing.
Gee, are we not defining parasites?
Say the reader is doing pretty well financially and hires a competent accounting professional to oversee the family finances. Later, say the reader learns that the hired hand has been embezzling the readers’ money. Tens of thousands of dollars gone, perhaps millions, stolen, never to be recovered. The con exposed and damage assessed, I ask: what are the reader’s anger and outrage levels?
The levels are pegged at “10,” obviously, the needle yet vibrating intensely against the limit peg. Insane with rage though readers understandably are, what they need to conceptualize is that America’s political class has done this very same thing to them.
There is no difference at all. None. Zero.
Via government, America’s political class has been systematically stealing the readers’ money and enriching themselves. The money flows in, and the political class simply, parasitically, takes its cut. Of course, the money must be sent through the necessary channels for proper laundering, but this is how systematically easy the theft has become.
And it is a lot of money.
Trump’s DOGE team uncovered $2.7 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse in healthcare alone since 2003. That money is gone, never to be recovered. No receipts, no accounting. Gone. Just last week Americans learned they were defrauded out of $9-billion-dollars and counting by Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz. Investigations are being opened into other states, as well, and suspected to yield similar fraud results. And in a macro sense, the national debt left by the political class to be paid by the American worker’s hard-earned income?
Try $38 trillion dollars, and counting.
I don’t know how one makes people understand that all this stolen money is their money, too, same as the money the fictitious personal accountant pilfered. For some reason, some people don’t want to equate the two. Oddly, it’s as if one is a personal offense and one is not. When they are both indeed personal theft. Just because the government takes the people’s money doesn’t make it the government’s money. It is the people’s money, still. The people’s wealth, still. Furthermore, it is supposed to be used for national defense and infrastructure, not to enrich politicians and political parties, which is precisely and indisputably what has been happening.
Getting people to conceptualize this theft as personal, however, is strangely difficult. As to the reason for this odd disassociation, the eminently sensible, Michael Crichton:
“There are unpleasant realities in the world, and people avert their eyes from them, or change the subject, or make excuses for what has occurred. They imagine this is an acceptable strategy in life—in fact, that it is a more humane strategy. [Then something severe happens to people and they] no longer believe that. If someone tried to kill you, you did not have the option of averting your eyes or changing the subject. You are forced to deal with that person’s behavior. The experience was, in the end, a loss of certain illusions. The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was. There were bad people in the world. They had to be stopped.”
Proving there are bad people in the world, and unpleasant realities that need to be acknowledged, Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, says, “The General Accounting Office believes that there is somewhere between $300 and $600 billion in annual fraud; roughly 10% of government spending [aka American worker’s hard-earned income] that disappears due to fraud. If we could recapture that, that is 1-2% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product).” Only, the fraud isn’t just recipients gaming the system.
It is the system itself.
Or rather, the government. The political class.
The political class of the United States, led primarily by liberals and their established order, has been caught, thanks to Donald Trump, robbing the American citizenry blind. This isn’t politics; it is theft, by criminals. Personalized and individualized theft, in fact, about which there should be no more illusions, and for which there must be accountability.
Well, the government will handle it, you say.
You mean, like it handles the American worker’s hard-earned income?
In what other scenario do you tell and even demonstrate to victims they are being robbed, and the victims shrug it off? When does that ever happen?
It doesn’t happen.
When do people allow liars and thieves to run amuck and take advantage of them, or anyone else?
They don’t allow it, normally,
The difference here is that the criminal is government, the political class, liberals and their established order. And for various reasons, some people don’t want to acknowledge that undeniable fact.
Well, the incontrovertible fact remains: these are bad people who must be stopped, and the American people had better stop dickin’ around with their aversion to unpleasantness.
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John Mark Warren 