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Rich Californians balk at limits: ‘We’re not all equal when it comes to water’
originally posted by: Mr Headshot
We are all equal, some are just more equal than others.
overly educated
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
a reply to: buddah6
overly educated
What do you mean by "overly educated"? How can anyone be "overly educated"? Do you mean, like, they didn't work hard for their credentials - that they 'passed' their classes when they didn't deserve it?
It's the person who can only relate to the world in an academic way as it relates to school and no other consideration.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
a reply to: buddah6
overly educated
What do you mean by "overly educated"? How can anyone be "overly educated"?
I was thinking the same thing. I believe he might have been referring to where people are educated rather than to what extent.
originally posted by: DeepImpactX
originally posted by: Mr Headshot
We are all equal, some are just more equal than others.
Some are this = while others are this? =
They just need to install a regulator for the addresses known not to play ball. Once the restriction limit is met for the month.....the water goes off. Until the water goes through the meter, it still belongs to the company providing it.
You don't want play well with others? Screw off.
As Obama says, you didn't build that business...someone these did.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society, as it is for him to make land originally.
Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.
All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: CB328
They're Californians.
So, of course, they're better than the rest of us.