I have a few questions for everyone who supports redistribution of wealth in any form (even as we do now). What makes an American better than everyone else?

I constantly hear from the economically liberal folks that everyone deserves a piece of the American Pie. Personally, I believe that everyone has a chance at the American Pie, many just do not have the dedication to get as large a slice as they'd like, but that's my opinion. I hear how outsourcing is bad. How the rich should pay more taxes because they can afford it. How unions are oh so wonderful because they help the middle class. I call bullsh*t.

What makes an American so much more deserving than a foreigner? I mean, I constantly hear how so many of the wealthy have better opportunity and some are even handed wealth from their birth status, but how is birth social status any different from the nation of birth? I mean, we have no more control over the nation of our birth than we do our social status. Why should the wealthy in this situation be punished for something they have no control over? If they were not born into it, why punish their hard work and success?

Same with job outsourcing. Corporations make far more profit on the backs of foreign nations than they do of American workers because of reduced costs. These reduced costs are enjoyed by us here in the form of cheaper goods. The foreign nations receive revenues when their workers get paid and that helps their economies (also, what may only be $1.25 an hour here may be the equivalent of $10 and hour there. Convenient how people ignore the fact there is an exchange rate). Many do not realize it, but we all enjoy the benefits of outsourcing when we go to the store. If everything was American made, costs would be far higher than they are now because businesses pass on additional costs, and anyone who does not realize that is plain foolish. Why is another nation so less deserving of those jobs than America?

If it's to be fair for all, it should be fair for all. This is my primary argument against any form of socialism and my complete support for capitalism in its purest form. It cannot be fair for everyone because of the nature of the world. There are not unlimited resources and therefore, some must go without.

For the love of money you will lose your country, which made it possible.

Are you that encapsulated?

I believe that nothing makes you deserve anything. People may feel like giving you something, and then, in their opinion, you deserve something. This never ever means that you actually may be in a state of deserving, just by yourself. So, IMHO, this is an objective value. One can not say "I deserve this, therefore I take it". It does not make any sense.

Americans used to have higher level of life because they DID NOT STEAL FROM EACH OTHER. This is an impossible point to be understood by an inferior mind. Less intelligent, therefore, are bound to poverty.

We are today, Americans, have reduced ourselves to deserving, and to being exactly what is against the constitution, - nobility. Nobility is a set of birthrights, other than a property right. When I say I deserve this or that more than that man from Mexico, because I was born here, and therefore I will not allow myself to compete on my own merits, I exercise nobility. If I were to meet our founding fathers, they would despise me, for being a worm that I am. (That is why I do not do it ).

We could just shoot 'em all!

Like our predecessors did...

They most certainly did steal from each other, I a not sure which history you read.



In reality we had the following, which is what you are suggesting we should have again, only with more uneducated workers not from this country, which would not question, because being a paid slave is better than an unpaid one - which is what they are used to.

So, a business becomes profitable in the states... very profitable!

The workers for the company are knowingly being subjected to what the owner feels is adequate for them(workers), such as extremely long work hours without sufficient breaks in the day, no days off or vacation, poor health and safety standards without insurance to cover the possible accidents, and a low enough wage that in order to be able to live at a much lower quality of life than the owner(s) they - the workers - must work so much that they rarely get time to spend enjoying the fruits of their own labor.
There is no time for anything else.

While those born into wealth will always continue to have it, and the possibility for a worker becoming successful through the fruits of his own labor remains nil.

Sounds like elite socialism to me.

Just because one says something is so does not make it so.

I don't see how your reply relates to an original question though.