Lies of the Left #4 “Do what you love and the money will follow”

I live next door to a professional musician. Well he used to be a professional musician and he brewed beer as a hobby. But after years of struggling to make ends meet, he switched his hobby and profession so he could eat. He’s the master brewer at a brew pub.

There’s a kid down the street who was big time into literature. He got a major in English at one of those $60K a year schools. He did a stint or two as a low or no pay editor. He also drove a delivery truck for a while. Now he’s gone back and done a year taking science courses in hopes of getting into medical school. He’s 29 and hasn’t really ever worked.

Each year thousands of students pay thousands of dollars each to Universities and Colleges to train them in near totally useless fields. Art History is good if you want to work in one of the 2 or 3 museums looking to hire some one. Communications prepares you for… I have no idea. Journalism might get you one of the shrinking number of jobs in the failing newspaper/propaganda business. Majoring in a language is pretty much only good for teaching. Majoring in anything with the word “studies” in the title only teaches how to be an aggrieved leftist. (It’s like learning how to be a virus, all you can do is infect others to make duplicates of yourself)

Aaron Clarey has even written a book on this: Worthless: The Young Person’s Indispensable Guide to Choosing the Right Major. There are dozens of degrees that really train you to do nothing that anyone else wants to pay.

Let’s face it. There are exactly three legal ways to get money. You can inherit, which is the least dependable. You can run your own business. Or, you can work for someone else. If you are doing your own business, I would argue you probably don’t need a degree unless it is for specialized training in doing that particular business. Examples would be law, medicine, engineering, architect. But if you are just running a dry cleaning business. I’d say skip it. So, if you are working for someone else, like the vast majority of us, YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO DO SOMETHING OTHER PEOPLE WANT TO PAY YOU TO DO. You can often learn it on the job. But the bottom line is you have to know how to do something useful.

And let me tell you a little secret here. There’s a certain amount of enjoyment/satisfaction from doing things that are useful. I have worked as a carpenter, and there is a lot of satisfaction in seeing a house get put together where before there was just a field of grass and weeds. There’s also satisfaction in knowing you’ve learned a trade. I know a guy who drilled oil wells to pay the bills. He really learned to love doing that. So don’t buy that, follow your passion crap. Learn to do something well, and then enjoy doing it.

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Lies of the Left #3 “Socialism is the answer!”

Capitalism works like school. When it’s time to study for the test, some students practice problems, memorize facts, check their answers and really study hard. Some look at their notes and spend 10 minutes trying to remember what was going on in class. Some students pretend to study while watching TV, and some don’t even pretend and go visit a friend. The students then take the quiz. Some get A’s, some B’s and so on to those who get scores in the teens. There is not guarantee of result, only equality of opportunity and reward for excellence and effort.

Suppose we made our schools into little socialist learning centers. The scores for all the students, including those that didn’t show up for the test, would be added together and divided by the number of students. Each student would get exactly the same score. For the second test, maybe some students would pretend to study while watching TV, but most would not. Once you remove all incentive to put in effort, the effort stops. And that’s what socialism is, the removal of incentive to guarantee equality of result.

There are only these two models. You may throw around terms like socialism, communism, or democratic socialism, but these are just different points along the scale where varying amounts of efforts are taken from those that work hard to create wealth and given to those unwilling or unable to produce.

The more capitalistic a place is the more prosperous it is. Let’s list a few. The US, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway. These places have varying amounts of subsidies regardless of the effort put in, but these capitalist societies are prosperous and have lifted the vast majority of their citizens out of poverty.

Now let’s look at socialist or former socialist places. Venezuela: About 10% of the population has fled the country. There are shortages of food, medicine, and just about everything else. Inflation is about 25,000% as I write. Sure, everyone in Venezuela is a millionaire, but a million bolivars doesn’t buy a dozen eggs. USSR: collapsed. North Korea: Starvation and concentration camps. Cuba: Still driving cars from the ’50s. And let’s not forget the death toll. It’s usually from starvation, but there have also been millions of executions of those who would not get with the socialist program. Karl Marx and his followers have the blood of One Hundred Million Dead on their hands.

The people pushing for socialism really believe deep down that they are working to create a utopia where life is beautiful all the time. The really want everyone to have medical care, a house, enough to eat. The socialists in the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Cambodia, Vietnam, China all said the same thing. “Wouldn’t it be great… “ The people pushing socialism now say, “They didn’t do it right last time, WE know how to do it right!” But the socialists will never be right, because once you remove the incentive for effort, the effort stops. They may never be right, but they may obtain the power of might. Then they will use their power to silence or punish anyone who dares to question their judgment. Fidel Castro took control of Cuba in 1959, and permanently silenced about 40,000 of his countrymen, many of those with firing squads. Some will say that this can’t happen here because we have a republic and elect our leaders. Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela and his regime is credited with 8000+ extrajudiciary executions.

Socialism may be the answer, but only if the question is: “How can we ruin the country and kill thousands of our countrymen in the process?”

Lies of the Left #2

We are currently in the midst of the “caged immigrant children” crisis.  You know, the one Obama did for 8 years, but now because it’s a Republican it’s HORRIBLE. Sheesh.

So the lie we are doing today is “It’s for the Children!” After one of the school shootings, I remember a dem saying something like “if we can save just one child”.  These people don’t care about the children. They are just tools to confiscate our right to self defense, or to attack Trump.

So think about this.  The Democrats are saying “It’s a crime against humanity, just like the Nazis did, to separate children from their parents!”.  Please. They are only too happy to separate children from their parents if they get to do it via an abortion.

Lies of the Left #1

I’ve decided to expose some of the common lies of the left. Since everything the verbose left says is a lie it’s going to be hard to choose a first topic.  But since this is father’s day I’ll go with the lie: “Single mother homes are just as good as those who have a father”. or  stated another way, “Children don’t need fathers”

 

This lie has been around quite a long time.  Interest in it perhaps peaked when someone running for president  or VP criticized the Murphy Brown example of choosing to bring up a child alone.  They twisted the words to say that what he really said was single mothers were bad or something.  Single mothers are heroic in my opinion, and that’s because raising a child is a job for two.  Many of you will say “two Moms are just as good.” We’ll know better in the future just how true that is.  But I have two things to say.

 

Number 1.  Ample evidence is out there that children of even the poorest families that have a Mom and Dad do better then even the most affluent single parent families.  Look it up.  Plenty of evidence of that.

 

Number 2.  Fathers have different role in raising children.  The mother  mothers them.  She protects, feeds, and comforts and helps children develop empathy.  Dad’s job is to prepare the children for the world. To challenge them. To lay down rules. It’s the yin and yang of the two parents that really helps the child fully develop. When my son was joining the Navy, my wife was against this because it’s a hard job, and she worried about him doing well.  I said, he had a normal childhood with plenty of yelling, he will do fine in the Navy, and he did.

I was going to list the problems associated with fatherlessness. But my source listed so many, I’ll just let you look at the Psychology Today article yourself.

So, for the sake of your children, work out your problems and stay married, or failing that, work to ensure your children are integrated into their father’s life. Kids need their fathers.

Obamagate

That needs to be the name for obama’s scandal. Oh wait, which scandal?  Let’s use the one that the media inadvertantly publicised the shit out of.  Obamagate is when obama had the FBI spy on Trump.  I’m pretty sure I’ll get some leftnitwit tell me “obama didn’t know about that!”.  It actually doesn’t matter if he knew.  He weaponized the government.  He was the chief executive in charge of the FBI.  Obama owns Obamagate.

Hysterical Trans Hysteria

I just read an account of a girl who leapt onto the leftist wave of transgender hysteria and decided all her problems would be solved if she just pretended to turn into a boy. She mentioned that everyone just jumped on the transgender bandwagon and pushed/pulled her along.  NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

Guess what?  It didn’t solve anything. She is now facing her problems and reality and “transitioning back”.  I think to transition back, if you haven’t had surgery, you simply…what? DO NOTHING. Poof a girl is a girl again and a boy a boy again. (Someone will write to tell me that the do nothing approach may not  work if the hormone treatments someone has taken have damaged your body.  Let this be a word of warning to the wise, to avoid trying to change your gender at all costs.)

 

Dear “trnasgender” people.  It’s all a crock of shit.  Don’t ruin your lives by faking the other sex.  Just try to be who you are.

Militant transgenderism

Here’s a guy, masquerading as a woman who says if you wouldn’t date someone like him, you’re a bigot. Here’s Riley Dennis;

Trouble getting my mind around this, but somehow it’s also bad if you are dating a girl who turns out to have a dick, and you’re a dick if you aren’t happy about that. So I guess you “enlightened” SJW types are going to have to suck some trans dick to earn your SJW bona fides.

It’s one thing when they started out as “live and let live”.  Now it’s accept our delusion, or there is something wrong with YOU!