@DocTesla83@RothForPrez@grok@grok why did the joos cause the Venezuela earthquake? What have poor Venezuelans ever done to the joos? Would you like to take this opportunity to denounce the joos?
@Suzierizzo1 See that’s the difference. ACB doesn’t use the Supreme Court to manipulate the destiny of the nation to suit her family situation.
She isn’t a leftist.
@MichaelMegale1@orig_outcast@ErikVoorhees If you want to see a product of interbreeding, first look at the /sarc tag at the end of my comment and then look into a mirror.
@orig_outcast@ErikVoorhees You know how they become billionaires? They roam around all night , pounce on poor homeless people, and empty their pockets. It’s not easy becoming a billionaire. You have to rob every pauper you can find.
/sarc
I lived in MD for 4 years. Know a lot of people connected with the whole government apparatus.
When you say idealistic, you are looking at their intentions.
When I say leeches, I am looking at actions and results.
That’s another difference between makers and takers.
Makers care about output. Takers only care about how much inputs they are receiving from the taxpayers. The output either doesn’t matter, or is some hard-to-quantify metric like lives saved.
It is easy to quantify how much I contributed. It’s on my 1040. Your 150 lives saved is basically a number you came up with that I simply have to accept. You could have saved 300 lives and being modest, and I would never know.
Here is my view of Washington DC:
People throughout the country break their back to produce goods and services. The farmer, the miner, the truck driver, the factory worker, the engineer, the architect. The doctor who heals, the teacher who teaches, the hair stylist who makes people look nicer. They are all makers.
And then there are takers. The bureaucrat, the politician, the lawyer, the consultant, the regulator, the agitator, the activist, the project coordinator, the environmental impact analyst. These are the takers.
They don’t produce wealth. They don’t produce anything of value. An humble janitor does vastly more for the society than these takers.
They simply take the hard earned money of the worker, keep a healthy cut for themselves, do something with the rest (maybe good, maybe bad) and then look down upon the workers. They revel in their moral superiority, their generosity, their intellect, while looking at disdain at the ordinary wealth creator whose wealth they are appropriating.
I would be surprised if even 10% of DC residents are makers. As far as I can tell, every last one is a leech.
You don’t have to tell me. Just answer to yourself: are you a maker or a taker.
Here’s the reality, and you likely know it but won’t admit it: for every good hearted person trying his best to help poor people, there are three parasites simply there to bathe in the spigot of taxpayer money. Out of $100 that taxpayers spend, maybe $10-20 goes towards the poor people and the salaries of on the ground workers.
Rest is all carried away by consultants, regulators, lobbyists, impact analysts, environmental impact study experts, pressure groups, NGOs who do nothing and assorted such leeches and parasites.
I am assuming that you are part of the first group - spending months in Africa or South America, instead of toiling away in an air conditioned office in DC.
Good for you.
@WilliamsonRT@besttrousers@Atul_Gawande Me: I am not saying everyone involved was dishonest and corrupt.
You: I just want to understand your point… I am a “parasite” and a “leech”? Is that your point?
You see the disconnect here?