Who's for the little guy?

[This_person]

You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.
Ronald Wilson Reagan

 

[Nonno]

"A little after noon, I found the sea very calm, and the tide ebbed so far out, that I could come within a quarter of a mile of the ship; and here I found a fresh renewing of my grief: for I saw evidently, that if we had kept on board, we had been all safe–that is to say, we had all got safe on shore, and I had not been so miserable as to be left entirely destitute of all comfort and company, as I now was. This forced tears from my eyes again; but as there was little relief in that, I resolved, if possible, to get to the ship–so I pulled off my clothes, for the weather was hot to extremity, and took the water.

But when I came to the ship, my difficulty was still greater to know how to get on board; for, as she lay aground and high out of the water, there was nothing within my reach to lay hold of. I swam round her twice, and the second time I spied a small piece of rope, which I wondered I did not see at first, hang down by the fore-chains, so low as that with great difficulty I got hold of it, and, by the help of that rope, got up into the forecastle of the ship.

Here I found that the ship was bulged, and had a great deal of water in her hold, but that she lay so on the side of a bank of hard sand, or rather earth, and her stern lay lifted up upon the bank, and her head low almost to the water: by this means all her quarter was free, and all that was in that part was dry; for you may be sure my first work was to search and to see what was spoiled, and what was free, and first I found that all the ship’s provisions were dry and untouched by the water: and being very well disposed to eat, I went to the bread-room and filled my pockets with biscuit, and ate it as I went about other things, for I had no time to lose. I also found some rum in the great cabin, of which I took a large dram, and which I had indeed need enough of to spirit me for what was before me. Now I wanted nothing but a boat, to furnish myself with many things which I foresaw would be very necessary to me."

 

[Gilligan]

? Robinson Crusoe, that looks like. What on earth does that have to do with OP?

 

[vraiblonde]

You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.
Ronald Wilson Reagan

But the big govvies turn it around to say the government protects the little guy, and big taxes help to support him, and big bureaucracy keeps things fair. And the "little guy" buys into it for some reason that I have never been able to understand, considering it's demonstrably untrue.

 

[Aerogal]

He was part of the priviledged class and was shipwrecked while travelling to Africa to purchase slaves............sounds like a democrat, right Nonno?

 

[Nonno]

“From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.”

 

[Gilligan]

“From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.”

Wisdom being quite unrelated to the sheer bare naked stupidity that you evince on a daily basis.

 

[Nonno]

Wisdom being quite unrelated to the sheer bare naked stupidity that you evince on a daily basis.

Stigler’s Law of Eponymy states that “no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”

Arabic numerals were invented in India.
Darwin lists 18 predecessors who had advanced the idea of evolution by natural selection.
Freeman Dyson credited the idea of the Dyson sphere to Olaf Stapledon.
Charles Wheatstone invented the Playfair cipher.
Salmonella was discovered by Theobald Smith but named after Daniel Elmer Salmon.
Copernicus propounded Gresham’s Law.
Pell’s equation was first solved by William Brouncker.
Euler’s number was discovered by Jacob Bernoulli.
The Gaussian distribution was introduced by Abraham de Moivre.
The Mandelbrot set was discovered by Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia.

 

[This_person]

But the big govvies turn it around to say the government protects the little guy, and big taxes help to support him, and big bureaucracy keeps things fair. And the "little guy" buys into it for some reason that I have never been able to understand, considering it's demonstrably untrue.

I think people want to believe they'll be protected. So, even if it's clear that the protection is actually against your interests, you're willing to accept it because you'll feel safer.

Take afirmative action - a program designed to tell people they're not good enough to compete on their own, a program which is racist against EVERYBODY, and yet dumb people think it's a good idea. Why? Because they believe it looks out for the little guy....

 

[vraiblonde]

Stigler’s Law of Eponymy states that “no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”

Arabic numerals were invented in India.
Darwin lists 18 predecessors who had advanced the idea of evolution by natural selection.
Freeman Dyson credited the idea of the Dyson sphere to Olaf Stapledon.
Charles Wheatstone invented the Playfair cipher.
Salmonella was discovered by Theobald Smith but named after Daniel Elmer Salmon.
Copernicus propounded Gresham’s Law.
Pell’s equation was first solved by William Brouncker.
Euler’s number was discovered by Jacob Bernoulli.
The Gaussian distribution was introduced by Abraham de Moivre.
The Mandelbrot set was discovered by Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia.

America is named after Amerigo Vespucci.