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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 33857" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: 2011 U.S. Budget Cut in PerspectiveAnd who exactly is for that philosophy (cliche?)? Robin Hood&#039;s evil twin <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />.&nbsp; Surely if you don&#039;t support that clever pejorative, then somebody else must? We don&#039;t see eye to eye? Hmm, but I don&#039;t support &quot;socialized&quot; anything. I thought I was clear about that.&nbsp; The government has their hands on powerful levers for shifting wealth around. Unfortunately this government &quot;midas touch&quot; destroys a fraction of everything they touch (not unlike the old fable), so we always end up with a smaller pie. This is a less than zero sum gain. I will concede that there are demographic wealth shifts that do not look good, but don&#039;t blame the wealthy for for their success at negotiating the new global economy. Everybody needs to pedal faster (or work smarter) to just stand still as more developing countries join the competition. The solution IMO is not to strong arm business to be less competitive, but come up with a reason for them to create jobs... I don&#039;t even look to big business for any significant help... Small business is tomorrow&#039;s big business. Today&#039;s big business are dinosaurs, some already on life support from their friends in DC. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 33857, member: 126"] Re: 2011 U.S. Budget Cut in Perspective And who exactly is for that philosophy (cliche?)? Robin Hood's evil twin :-). Surely if you don't support that clever pejorative, then somebody else must? We don't see eye to eye? Hmm, but I don't support "socialized" anything. I thought I was clear about that. The government has their hands on powerful levers for shifting wealth around. Unfortunately this government "midas touch" destroys a fraction of everything they touch (not unlike the old fable), so we always end up with a smaller pie. This is a less than zero sum gain. I will concede that there are demographic wealth shifts that do not look good, but don't blame the wealthy for for their success at negotiating the new global economy. Everybody needs to pedal faster (or work smarter) to just stand still as more developing countries join the competition. The solution IMO is not to strong arm business to be less competitive, but come up with a reason for them to create jobs... I don't even look to big business for any significant help... Small business is tomorrow's big business. Today's big business are dinosaurs, some already on life support from their friends in DC. JR [/QUOTE]

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