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So ― Elizabeth Warren said: “There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
OK Elizabeth, let’s say someone does that, they use all the money they have and borrow more. Then they Fail. They are Deeply in debt, far in the hole, because they had a vision, they took a risk They, and they alone, made the decision to take a risk. Can they come to your house, with their hand out and say, ‘Gimme’ ?
To be clear. They paid, exactly the same as you, for roads, for education, for police, and fire forces. So why, is it that you believe someone should risk everything they have, and if they succeed, give their profits to you. As you said, (that you said), “nobody in this country who got rich on their own.’ And if they fail, they go to living under a bridge.
I ask, how much of a, ‘ hunk of it’ are YOU keeping, and how much of a, ‘hunk’, are YOU, ‘pay(ing) forward for the next kid who comes along’ ?
Wasn’t it Shaw who said, (to the like) ‘Difference between Socialism and Communism is, one uses better English’.
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