Still Like Occupy Wall Street?

Posted by Jeff Carter
on May 4th, 2012

Here they are on LaSalle Street parading in front of the Chicago Board of Trade.

I have no use for communists and Democrats shouldn’t either. Why do they embrace them? Anyone asking that?
100,000,000 dead in this world thanks to communism.

Chicago will be overrun with them at the end of May. Like rats.

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”
– Winston Churchill
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
– Winston Churchill
“The problem with socialism is that at some point you run out of other people’s money.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
– Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take from you everything you have.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
– Thomas Jefferson

The last quote is worth noting, today’s jobless number shows a lower headline rate but a labor participation rate of 64.3%. That’s not structural unemployment, or baby boomers retiring. It’s people that won’t get off their asses because they get government checks.

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