Below are some comments I found interesting and not too hard to guess the subject of the article.
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The Obama administration's spokesmen and loyal media sycophants are spinning it as a positive sign, a portent of the new utopia in which people find fulfillment in less work and more government subsidies. This is elitist clap-trap which appeals to the kind of people who take a sabbatical, but which angers all of those people who struggle to make their car payments, keep MasterCard off their backs, and pay for braces for little Suzie and Johnny.
Jason Furman, Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, embarrassed himself yesterday explaining why it is a good thing that 2.5 million people will leave the workforce thanks to Obamacare, with a performance Brit Hume described as "pathetic."
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When we are given the opportunity to help our neighbors, we invariably first choose to help ourselves. The proof? Eric Hobsbawm, avowed socialist and defender of Communism died with an Estate of $1.8 million dollars. Pete Seeger? His estate is estimated at $4.2 million. Russell Brand, who recently called for global socialism is worth an estimated $15 million. There is no indication that any of them are or were particularly interested in the redistribution of their own wealth; there have been no redistribution checks forthcoming from them or their estates.
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Marxism criticizes the achievements of all those who think otherwise by representing them as the venal servants of the bourgeoisie. Marx and Engels never tried to refute their opponents with argument. They insulted, ridiculed, derided, slandered, and traduced them, and in the use of these methods their followers are not less expert. Their polemic is directed never against the argument of the opponent, but always against his person......... von Mises
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The Atlantic takes a novel approach, declaring "So what?" if Americans are a bit lazier due to ObamaCare. No big deal that, "More adults will simply decide to take it easy." Goods will be produced and services provided all by themselves if workers stay home and take it easy. Tax revenues will magically appear in the Treasury if fewer Americans are working, earning an income, and paying income tax. And everyone will be paying his or her mortgage, student loans, and credit cards by taking it easy. Never mind that average household credit card debt is over $15 thousand. The only ones who can "Take it Easy" and still pay their bills are The Eagles, earning royalties on their hit song.
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And perhaps there is value in reflecting upon and lamenting the intense irony derived from thousands of privileged Americans, supported by prominent Democrats, outspokenly begging for the application of Marxist principles -- while on the other side of the Earth, muted masses are suffering and dying under the weight of that very yoke.
The above is in page One , paragraph One of the Marxist Creed. At first glance, it sounds pretty reasonable; but there is a problem.... It means, invariably, that Someone Else is going to be deciding what it is you need. That Someone Else, doing the deciding, will always hasten to assure you they are better qualified to decide what it is you need than you are. If you don't agree with them, there will be places where you can be "re-educated" to a better appreciation of their wisdom. This is how Marxism is practiced, how it is lived, in the real world.
One would think that anyone that would want to live in such a world is either deluded or insane. The question is raised of why, after nearly a century of theft, rapine, repression, torture and murder, on an unprecedented global scale, Marxism still retains, overtly or otherwise, as many adherents as it does. The answer is simple: those that push the idea of Marxism or Marxist agendas the hardest are convinced that, they, once Marxism is established, will be among those doing the deciding. Thus are their true motives revealed: a lust for power over the lives, the livelihoods, and, ultimately, the minds , of people they regard as their moral and intellectual inferiors.
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Detroit, Cleveland, Dayton, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, and more. Once vibrant cities, with successful, happy hard working people at all levels of the economic spectrum. Then came the government, to fix the lives of these people. Now, their grandchildren live lives of unknown parentage, with no jobs, no need for a job, no morality except their own survival, no education. This is the result of liberal compassion. Each inner city is a testimony to what happens when a liberal insists on spreading the wealth around because of their superior moral vision. They leave behind a wasteland. And the wasteland now moves to the suburbs where people attempted, futilely, to escape the reach of good hearted liberals and their deadly compassion.
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A fundamental problem with progressiveness is that it is not interested in creating wealth; but redistributing wealth instead. The old line, "Give a man a fish and he will have dinner tonight; teach him how to fish and he will have dinner every night" is a conundrum to the progressive. He doesn't know how to fish, let alone teach another how to fish.
Therefore his response is to run up and down the river bank stealing fish from all those who are fishing and giving it away to those who are not, telling them the fish comes from him.
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