----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Fink <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:06 am Subject: FW: [Vo]:[OT] H1N1 Synchronicity
> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Fink [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:02 AM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: [Vo]:[OT] H1N1 Synchronicity > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: grok [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Vo]:[OT] H1N1 Synchronicity > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Fact is, socialism is about Fairness AND Freedom -- because for one > thing: being fair is all about being free. Think about it. > > > > I just got finished thinking about it. > > There is no freedom in socialism. > > Freedom and equality are mutually exclusive concepts unless you > limit the > definition of equality to equal opportunity rather than equal > result. Equal > opportunity allows us the freedom to prosper from hard work or > suffer the > consequences of laziness. With real freedom, some people will get > ahead of > others. Some call this unfair. They want equality of result > without the > effort. They want the results of someone else's effort to flow > into their > pockets, and that is what I call "wealth redistribution", and that > is what I > call unfair. > > Too many people are riding on the wagon, leaving fewer and fewer to > pull the > wagon. Many of us in the harness, who are straining and sweating > under the > load, are beginning to look over our shoulder and see the huge crowd > lounging and partying in the wagon, and they are saying, "Why am I > doing all > this work. This is unfair. If we can't ride in the wagon perhaps > we should > at least have a tea party." > > Jeff how do you measure person's effort? by a person's income? Harry
