Comments on: What Progressives Really Think http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/14/what-progressives-really-think/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: r4d20 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/14/what-progressives-really-think/#comment-831 r4d20 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:31:51 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/14/what-progressives-really-think/#comment-831 The existence of a large number of impoverished people has other costs besides the “touchy feely” ones. We can write these people off, but at a certain point they will get violent and we will have to shell out a lot of that earned cash simply to protect what is ours. Perhaps its been my lifelong interest with military history, but the empirical fact is that money attracts barbarians.

Nothing works all the time, but most long lived empires learnt to pay off the barbarians to fight amongst themselves rather than try to subdue them all by force. It didnt work all the time, nothing will stop a Genghis Khan, but it worked a lot more often than not.

]]> By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/14/what-progressives-really-think/#comment-816 Eric Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:35:15 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/14/what-progressives-really-think/#comment-816 More importantly, there is a significant failure to realize that wealthy individuals, corporations and unions have the money and power to manipulate your “welfare capitalist state” to their advantage. The funding for this borne by the middle quintiles of the wealth curve, not the high or low. That is, of course, conveniently overlooked.

]]> By: Rogel http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/14/what-progressives-really-think/#comment-815 Rogel Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:06:27 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/03/14/what-progressives-really-think/#comment-815 I love this oxymoron “welfare capitalist”. What will make the money “flow in” if you keep taking it? the wishful thinking?

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