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Neal Boortz
May 15, 2012, 1:00:00 PM5/15/12
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Now there’s another word that begs for a definition. FAIR! Everyone
just loves the word fair! Everyone wants to BE fair! Everyone wants to
be TREATED fairly! But try to define it … and there the problem begins.
This morning I saw some OccuTard on the tube talking about fairness.
This lady said that our “system” just wasn’t “fair” to people with little
money. Oh wow --- now try to define “fair” in THAT context!
So … let’s see. If you don’t have a lot of money you’re not treated
fairly in America, right?
•If you don’t have a lot of money you can’t buy an expensive car. I
guess that’s not fair.
•If you don’t have a lot of money you can’t buy a large home with a pool.
Not fair.
•If you’re living paycheck to paycheck you can’t afford two weeks in
Hawaii this year. That’s just not fair.
•If you’re not pulling down the big bucks you won’t be able to save for a
nice, cushy, comfortable retirement. That’s not fair and something needs
to be done about it.
So I’m guessing that for things to be fair you should be able to make
your claim to some of the wealth earned by people who made the right
choices, went the extra mile, worked those extra hours, and sacrificed to
get that which you do not have. Money.
Only out of the mouth of an OccuTard.
just loves the word fair! Everyone wants to BE fair! Everyone wants to
be TREATED fairly! But try to define it … and there the problem begins.
This morning I saw some OccuTard on the tube talking about fairness.
This lady said that our “system” just wasn’t “fair” to people with little
money. Oh wow --- now try to define “fair” in THAT context!
So … let’s see. If you don’t have a lot of money you’re not treated
fairly in America, right?
•If you don’t have a lot of money you can’t buy an expensive car. I
guess that’s not fair.
•If you don’t have a lot of money you can’t buy a large home with a pool.
Not fair.
•If you’re living paycheck to paycheck you can’t afford two weeks in
Hawaii this year. That’s just not fair.
•If you’re not pulling down the big bucks you won’t be able to save for a
nice, cushy, comfortable retirement. That’s not fair and something needs
to be done about it.
So I’m guessing that for things to be fair you should be able to make
your claim to some of the wealth earned by people who made the right
choices, went the extra mile, worked those extra hours, and sacrificed to
get that which you do not have. Money.
Only out of the mouth of an OccuTard.
Mason Barge
May 15, 2012, 2:42:48 PM5/15/12
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On Tue, 15 May 2012 13:00:00 -0400, Neal Boortz <Boo...@WSB.com> wrote:
>Now there’s another word that begs for a definition. FAIR! Everyone
>just loves the word fair! Everyone wants to BE fair! Everyone wants to
>be TREATED fairly! But try to define it … and there the problem begins.
>
>This morning I saw some OccuTard on the tube talking about fairness.
>This lady said that our “system” just wasn’t “fair” to people with little
>money. Oh wow --- now try to define “fair” in THAT context!
Okay Neal. I don't think much of the word "fair" either, but in this
>Now there’s another word that begs for a definition. FAIR! Everyone
>just loves the word fair! Everyone wants to BE fair! Everyone wants to
>be TREATED fairly! But try to define it … and there the problem begins.
>
>This morning I saw some OccuTard on the tube talking about fairness.
>This lady said that our “system” just wasn’t “fair” to people with little
>money. Oh wow --- now try to define “fair” in THAT context!
context, it's pretty easy to see that people being allowed to use bank
deposits as collateral for proprietary trading and gaming the system,
earning $20 billion dollars in bonuses for work that adds nothing to
society except increasing the likelihood of a financially-driven
recession, while people who do add a lot to society at salaries of $20,000
to $80,000 are watching their pensions tank because of these same traders,
and then the trading institutions get bailed out by the tax dollars of
aforesaid actual valuable societal contributor, is not "fair". It is
grossly and clearly unconscionable and a massive anchor on the US economy.
Wayne
May 15, 2012, 3:46:18 PM5/15/12
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"Mason Barge" wrote in message
news:kk85r7hejgfebv257...@4ax.com...
On Tue, 15 May 2012 13:00:00 -0400, Neal Boortz <Boo...@WSB.com> wrote:
>Now there’s another word that begs for a definition. FAIR! Everyone
>just loves the word fair! Everyone wants to BE fair! Everyone wants to
>be TREATED fairly! But try to define it … and there the problem begins.
>
>This morning I saw some OccuTard on the tube talking about fairness.
>This lady said that our “system” just wasn’t “fair” to people with little
>money. Oh wow --- now try to define “fair” in THAT context!
# context, it's pretty easy to see that people being allowed to use bank
# deposits as collateral for proprietary trading and gaming the system,
# earning $20 billion dollars in bonuses for work that adds nothing to
# society except increasing the likelihood of a financially-driven
# recession, while people who do add a lot to society at salaries of $20,000
# to $80,000 are watching their pensions tank because of these same traders,
# and then the trading institutions get bailed out by the tax dollars of
# aforesaid actual valuable societal contributor, is not "fair". It is
# grossly and clearly unconscionable and a massive anchor on the US economy.
If the speculators make money, the little guy benefits in his pension, IRA,
and investments. There were no complaints when the market was booming.
The reward for incompetence should be failure. Oil companies and telecoms
were broken up before they got too big to fail, and the same should happen
for banks.
A perfect example of "unfair" is to make taxpayers absorb losses in their
401K, IRA, and pensions by voiding the rights of bond holders to bail out
GM.
Mason Barge
May 15, 2012, 6:52:02 PM5/15/12
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On Tue, 15 May 2012 12:46:18 -0700, "Wayne" <mygarb...@verizon.net>
wrote:
Great idea. Punish them by throwing the entire world into a major economic
depression.
wrote:
depression.
clairbear
May 15, 2012, 7:41:55 PM5/15/12
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Mason Barge <mason...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:gfn5r71asdpakpeah...@4ax.com:
In the real world a species or business that is not fit does not survive
Unless some outside entity interfers with the natural process If your
business is not well run then it will ultimately cease to be it will fail.
If a society is not run well or its parts are not well run it will cease
to be ask the Maya the Romans, the egytians the all eventually failed but
out of those failure something else emerged. It is the way of nature,
nature is never far. Only the fittest of the fittest survive. Being propped
up only delays it.
news:gfn5r71asdpakpeah...@4ax.com:
Unless some outside entity interfers with the natural process If your
business is not well run then it will ultimately cease to be it will fail.
If a society is not run well or its parts are not well run it will cease
to be ask the Maya the Romans, the egytians the all eventually failed but
out of those failure something else emerged. It is the way of nature,
nature is never far. Only the fittest of the fittest survive. Being propped
up only delays it.
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