Food For Thought

cletus22 ( just scroll down ):

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That poor and disadvantaged people and their children are less deserving of adequate employment, health care and education than the wealthy because the wealthy have worked really, really hard to acquire their wealth and that this somehow entitles them to prevent the poor and disadvantaged from getting adequate employment, health care and education. All so the wealthy can acquire more and more and more wealth.

Why aren't we smashing this argument?

The same argument which has been given for free, and without even a slight "brouhaha" ( from the so called Left ) in the Portuguese media as meritocracy.

Jeremiah Moses’s All created Equal? a Sinister Doctrine!:

Laissez faire ideology breeds hostility to public schools, public health and all forms of public welfare, including social security, and even the Post Office. Laissez faire finds its justification in the egalitarian myth that all persons are born on an equal footing. The lamb and the tiger are (if I may steal William Blake's metaphors) are created equal, and if the lamb fails to get one up on the tiger, it is simply because she did not put her mind to it.