We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUEâ€Â will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?
IS IT TRUE that according to the publication Human Progress, 2016 was the first year in human history when 1% of the population owned more wealth than the remaining 99%?…in spite of that the number of people in the world who lived in absolute poverty is lower than it has ever been?
IS IT TRUE today 6 Billion of the 6.5 Billion people on earth do not live in poverty while the other 500 Million do?…that the ration of people not in poverty to those who are is at an all-time high of 12?…just 40 years ago in 1977 was the first year that the critical ratio was one meaning an equal number of people were in and out of poverty?
IS IT TRUE historically the ration has been about 3 people in poverty for every one that is not?…this means that insofar as raising people out of poverty is concerned during the period of time since World War 2 the ratio of those out of poverty to those who are in poverty has improved by 3,500 percent?
IS IT TRUE this progress is attributed in whole to the massive creation of wealth that widespread industrialization and the information age have made possible?…the very wealth that drives the resentment between the 1% and the 99% is what generated the resources to reduce poverty?
IS IT TRUE people at all economic levels need to start looking at how they live and cease obsessing over where they are in the fictitious ranking of wealth?…one small bite of an ever-expanding pie is much better than having nearly all of a static pie?
IS IT TRUE from a lifestyle perspective, a low wage worker today lives better and more securely than a wealthy person 100 years ago?…with the invention of things like modern medicine, refrigeration, industrialized farming, electronics, transportation and housing, one of today’s less fortunate live a better life than the so-called robber barons like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt?
IS IT TRUE the time is now to wake up and smell the roses?…with only 500 million still living in poverty, down from 1.8 Billion in 1970 when poverty hit its peak, we can literally eliminate poverty in another 20 years?…that won’t keep the obsession with pecking order in check though because envy seems to be at the very root of human nature?
Todays “Readers Poll†question is: Do you feel without GOP Chairman Wayne Parkes support that County Commission Candidates Steve Hammer will lose?
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-southkorea-trump/trump-should-win-the-nobel-peace-prize-says-south-koreas-moon-idUSKBN1I10OD
Call me blue-boy . .why? I’m holding my breathe . . .remember Obama just took office, had said or done nothing and he received the Peace Prize. Maybe the ghost of TR (Teddy Roosevelt) is alive and well?
Why not just step right in the pile of dung, in fact, just start EATING it JoeBiden?
TRUMP is being played like a fool by North Korea, and now, South Korea (and likely China who is calling the shots).
Go ahead! Give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing! Trump will be another Barack Obama!
I mean, seriously, The Mexico Wall is a FARCE. Why not add another one?
N. Korea, S. Korea and China all know Trump needs adoration and flattery. They are laying it on thick. Trump NEEDS the N. Korea “no nuclear weapons” deal. NEEDS IT.
They are ramping up the pressure with this Nobel Peace Prize talk so much, Trump will give North Korea anything it wants.
Stormy Daniels has Trump’s number, that’s for sure! Now, so does North Korea, South Korea and China.
Twice you use the term “ration”. Pretty sure you should have used “ratio”.
Interesting Experiment>>>
Teacher Fails Entire Class: Wise Move ……..????
According to this Professor: This explains why Socialism won’t work, and always fails.
Is this man a genius?
An economics professor at a major college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on this plan”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars – something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
I feel that Wayne Parkes “non-support” of Steve Hammer, actually helps Steve!! Steve for the WIN !
I agree. Sometimes it’s best to leave things as they are. That said, Wayne Parkes is doing a better job of leading the republicans than the democrats are getting. Obama has had a negative effect on democrats getting into office. Plus, the democrats have seemingly ran out of talent.
Liberals so hate and envy the 1% that they would rather billions be living in abject poverty than the 1% get richer.
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