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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Socialism: You have two cows. Give one cow to your neighbor. Communism: You have two cows. Give both cows to the government, and they may give you some milk. Fascism: You have two cows. You give all of the milk to the government, and the government sells it. Nazism: You have two cows. The government shoots you and takes both cows. Anarchism: You have two cows. Keep both cows, shoot the government agent and steal another cow. Capitalism: You have two cows. Sell one, buy a bull.
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
The funny thing about socialism is nobody ever arrives there on purpose. They just keep following signs that say “free stuff” and wonder why the destination gets more expensive every year. 🤷‍♀️
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Every clause you wrote is a confession, not an argument. "The Social Security money hundreds of millions paid in." There is no such money. There is no account, no vault, no fund with your name on it. What was taken from workers was spent the moment it arrived, handed to the prior generation, the structure of a Ponzi scheme run by law. Musk is not raiding a pile of savings. He is naming a fraud you mistake for a nest egg. "The trillion he stole." Name the theft. Whose property did he take, by what act, from what victim? You can't, because he stole nothing. He built rockets that land, cars an industry swore were impossible, and satellites that reach where wires never did. Every dollar came from a human being who chose to trade for what Musk made. That is the precise opposite of theft. The man who creates value and trades it freely is the one moral actor in your entire post. "Paid no tax on." A man does not owe society a cut of his existence as the price of being allowed to produce. His wealth is not a loan from the public. It is the recorded fact of how much value he gave to others who wanted it. Look at what you've done here. You took the words "stole" and "entitled" and aimed them at the one man in the exchange who took nothing and earned everything, while defending a system that seizes from every worker by force. You inverted it completely. The producer is your thief. The coercion is your justice. That inversion is not an error of economics. It is a confession of values. You look at a man of enormous achievement and your first instinct is to brand him a criminal and strip him bare. The achievement is the thing you cannot allow. You are not seeking justice. You are seeking a victim worthy of the name, and you chose the one man who made more for others than you will ever grasp.
A better question is 'Why the fuck does Elon Musk think he is entitled to the Social Security money that hundreds of millions of Americans paid in?' As to the trillion he stole and paid no tax on. Make him pay his tax.
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
There's a consistent tendency in our society today to downgrade the creators of wealth. What those critics apparently can't stomach is that wealth creators have a tendency to acquire wealth in the process of creating it for others.
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Pourquoi les gauchistes sont les plus gros attardés du game? Décorticage, point par point. Premièrement, ils ne comprennent rien à l'économie. Strictement rien. Dans leur tête, la richesse est un gâteau de taille fixe. Si quelqu'un a une grosse part, c'est forcément qu'il te l'a volée. L'idée qu'on puisse fabriquer un nouveau gâteau, plus gros, à partir de rien, leur est physiquement inaccessible. Le jeu à somme positive, la création de valeur, ça dépasse leur firmware. Pour eux tout est à somme nulle: ta réussite est mathématiquement ma défaite. Deuxièmement, et c'est logique vu le point un, ils détestent exactement les gens qui créent cette valeur. L'entrepreneur qui emploie cinquante personnes? Un exploiteur. Le mec qui n'a jamais créé un seul emploi de sa vie? Un grand penseur du travail. Ils crachent sur les contributeurs nets et vénèrent ceux qui ne produisent rien. Cohérent dans l'absurde. Troisièmement, et c'est le vrai moteur: la jalousie. Tout l'édifice tient avec ça. Ce n'est pas qu'ils veulent que tout le monde monte. C'est qu'ils ne supportent pas que quelqu'un monte plus haut qu'eux. Girard avait tout expliqué: le désir mimétique, l'envie déguisée en morale. Ils ne veulent pas la justice, ils veulent ta part. Quatrièmement, et là je laisse la science trancher: corrélation troublante avec le fait d'être profondément aigri, et, disons-le, rarement épanoui. On va pas se mentir. Le bonheur, ça se voit sur un visage. L'amertume aussi. Bref. Une idéologie qui ne comprend pas la richesse, déteste ceux qui la créent, carbure à l'envie, et confond redistribution et vengeance. Le plus drôle? Ils sont persuadés d'être les gentils.
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
They don’t care for the poor. They just envy the rich.
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
🚨 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 - 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗨 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗔 "Housing needs to retain its value." Translation: Your rent, your struggle, your inability to afford a home, is not an accident. It's a plan! Trudeau just admitted it! They're not fixing shit! Bet on it!!! Imagine actually believing any Liberal wants to lose BOOMER votes over devaluing their voters inflated home prices. They're not fixing it for all, just fixing it for their voters. That's why Liberal voters keep voting for these idiots until the bubble bursts. That's how stupid the average Liberal is. Can't see long-term, everything is short-term!
🚨𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴🚨 "Homeowners vote. Renters don't. Fixing the housing crisis would make the people who keep you in power, feel poorer, so it never gets fixed." -Patrick Boyle Fix housing VS Losing Voters
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Thomas Sowell: “There is no greater indictment of judges than the fact that honest people are afraid to go into court, while criminals swagger out its revolving doors.”
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
🚨Other G7 leaders face their parliament. Other G7 leaders take opposition questions. Other G7 leaders answer to voters. Carney answers to Davos. Carney answers to Brookfield. Carney answers to no one in Ottawa. This isn’t leadership. It’s occupation. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.” “If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
“What is the evidence of voter fraud in LA?” Imagine I tell you let’s play a game. We’re going to flip a coin. If it’s tails, I’ll give you $100. If it’s heads, you owe me $100. Then I walk into the next room. When I return, I tell you “It was heads”. Maybe I’m telling the truth. Maybe I’m a well intentioned and honest person, and the fact that this seems incredibly shady is just a total coincidence. Or maybe I scammed you. The point is you have no way of knowing. You may claim that I just scammed you… but there’s “NO EVIDENCE” that I did! And THAT is our election process. For years now in our elections, we have seen irregularity after irregularity, numbers that don’t make sense, math that doesn’t add up, statistical impossibilities — all of which always seems to exclusively benefit one party. In our legal system, REASONABLE SUSPICION is the standard in which law enforcement can investigate a possible crime. Why is that not the same standard for our elections? Every American deserves to have faith in our electoral process. And there is just no objective way that anybody can have faith in the current system. If our elections were clean, there would be transparency, and investigations would be welcomed. School children are told “Show your work” when it comes to math homework. That’s all most of us are saying when it comes to the corrupt bastards handling these ballots: Show your work. 🤔
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
This is the best analogy yet with a solution for the mess that the UK is now in economically. I bought a bird feeder. I hung it in my back garden and filled it with seed. Within a week we had lots of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started… Building nests in the shed, in the eaves,in the fences and in my garden bushes. Then came the shit. It was everywhere,on the patio,on the chairs,the table,windows..everywhere! Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night And demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while,I couldn't even sit in my own back garden anymore. So I took down the Bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the garden. Soon,the back yard was like It used to be ..... Quiet,serene.... And no one demanding their rights to a free meal. Now let's see...... Our government gives out Free food,subsidised housing,free medical care and free education, and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen. Then the illegal’s came by the hundreds of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services,small apartments are housing 5 families,you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor,your child's second grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English. Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box,I have to press one to hear my bank talk to me in English,and people waving flags other than ”ours” are squawking and screaming in the streets,demanding more rights and free liberties. Just my opinion,but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽 My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Not gonna lie, this one raised a few eyebrows for me. 👀 ⬇️⬇️
🚨𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗧... 𝟮 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗦!!!🚨 Carney admits on tape: When voters blocked his ESG plans, "We" Central Bankers acted like "Regulators" going around the voters through the BACK DOOR! Manipulating fossil fuel prices by withholding lending. Now he's PM!🙃
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
🇨🇦 THE CANADA PARADOX How the World’s Most Blessed Country Became Its Own Worst Enemy Canada should not be in recession. Let that land for a moment. Third largest oil reserves on earth. Most freshwater of any nation. Unlimited arable land. An educated population. A stable financial system. Geographic proximity to the world’s largest consumer market. By every measure of natural endowment Canada should be among the wealthiest most dynamic economies on the planet. Instead it is the only G20 nation currently in recession. This is not bad luck. This is not Trump. This is not global headwinds. This is a choice. The Suicidal Paradox 🇨🇦 A nation so consumed by the performance of virtue that it has systematically dismantled the foundations of its own prosperity. Canada didn’t run out of oil. It made oil shameful. Canada didn’t run out of land. It made building impossible. Canada didn’t run out of workers. It made hiring them unaffordable. Canada didn’t run out of money. It redistributed it until nothing was left to invest. When a society mistakes guilt for governance and feelings for policy — the results are not theoretical. They show up in the data. They show up in the dollar. They show up in the parking lots on the 401. The Capital Verdict 🇨🇦 Currency markets are the world’s most honest judges. The Canadian dollar is weakening not because of interest rate differentials but because global capital has rendered a verdict on Canadian governance. Productivity near zero. Business investment lagging every OECD peer. A public sector crowding out private enterprise for a decade. Canadian pension funds — stewards of retirement savings for millions — are investing billions in India, America and global markets. They are voting with other people’s money. And the vote is: not Canada. The Carney Contradiction 🇨🇦 The current Prime Minister embodies the paradox perfectly. 91% of his personal wealth invested in America. His company’s headquarters relocated to New York. His wife earning millions from an American firm. His children educated at American universities. He then stands before Canadians and questions the patriotism of those who dare notice the recession. Smart money — including his — has already decided where opportunity lives. It is not here. The Reckoning 🇨🇦 History is unambiguous about what happens to resource rich nations that choose redistribution over investment, regulation over production, and narrative over reality. They become cautionary tales. Canada is not there yet. The bones of greatness remain. But the window is closing. Full time workers sleeping in Highway 401 parking lots. Seniors taxed out of homes they spent their lives paying for. A generation priced out of ownership entirely. And the Prime Minister is raising flags on Parliament Hill and handing out $266 grocery cheques. The Verdict 🇨🇦 Canada is not failing because it lacks resources. Canada is not failing because it lacks talent. Canada is not failing because the world turned against it. Canada is failing because it chose to. Every policy. Every regulation. Every tax. Every missed pipeline. Every cancelled permit. Every handout dressed up as a solution. A thousand small surrenders to the idea that managing decline is easier than demanding growth. The currency markets call it a risk premium. The data calls it a structural failure. History will call it a tragedy. Because it didn’t have to be this way. 🇨🇦📉 #CdnPoli #Canada #Carney #Economy
Canada is built on empathy and kindness toward non-Canadians.
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
We've all but lost the trade war. Reuters confirmed this week that the main draw for Canada's potential trading partners is not Canada. It is access to the American market through CUSMA. Trading partners want to manufacture in Canada to sell into the United States. Not into Canada. One year of Carney talking about diversifying away from America. One year of Davos like speeches. One year of 'rupture'. Is Carney finally going to acknowledge what Jim and Iain have been saying for over a year? Our relationship with America is everything. And the real question.... Did Canada's year of trade posturing with the United States cost ordinary Canadians real economic pain?
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Donald Trump - The President of another country is responsible for everything happening in Canada. 🇺🇸 Mark Carney - The Prime Minister of Canada is NOT responsible for anything happening to Canada. 🇨🇦 See how stupid that sounds?
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Ken from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Thomas Sowell: “What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail.” “In so far as they fail, they receive the money. In so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”
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