Theft and Liberal Government

     Sometimes you see something on face book or the comments people make on it, which gives you a different impression on the post then your first.  That happened today when someone posted the following picture on face book:

      The person who posted didn’t want to start a debate on this, but why post such a provocative picture and as part of your commentary say “I am sharing this because it seems like a(n) accurate observation about 2 kinds of opposite thought patterns.”    So my first reaction was that this is not a very accurate depiction of the conservative viewpoint so I commented by saying “This picture generated some interesting discussion however, it is the old when is the last time you beat your wife approach so typical of liberals/progressives.”  My point being that they first depict their side as more fair (and say that it’s an accurate observation) and precede from there to discuss what other things the picture might mean.  I stand  by that observation, however, looking at the further discussion I noticed something else.

     What prompted this different take was comment the orginal poster added later.  Which was this “The wall is there to keep the non-paying public out of the stadium. Taking the wall down would be unfair to the people who paid and the players.”  Which I think brings up a completely different issue, theft.  The poster went on to elaborate that “I think the boxes are government programs”.  I had not perceived the picture as those outside the fence stealing the production of the players inside.  This brought me to an interesting conclusion, she had seen something that I did not, the people outside the fence are stealing from the players, the owner(s) of the team and the owner(s) of the stadium (whomever that might be), but further they are doing it at the expense of the people who had paid for their seats through their own effort, and they are being assisted by the government in the theft.  So maybe this really does represent the current government and the way it works, even though it doesn’t represent conservatives/libertarians it certainly represents the liberals and their big government.