The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - Dec 26, 2020

Episode Date: December 26, 2020

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Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. Ladies and gentlemen, the reason redistributing other people's earnings doesn't work is because nobody goes to work to pay for somebody else. For the liberals listening, because you're really dopey. I'm not kidding, and I get that. I was a graduate student in neuropsychology at the City University of New York. Because I hate when people talk about their education.

But this story has a purpose. It's not to tout my educational bona fides. Nobody cares. But we did a lot of experimental psychology. And we would use animal studies. And and typically it was with these mice and you have to dipper train mice. Those of you who've done experimental psychology, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

You get them thirsty. You put them in a cage with water and there's a dipper. A mouse doesn't by instinct hit the dipper. They don't know what the dipper is. So when they're thirsty, they want water. So what do you got to have them do? When they get closer to the dipper, you reward them and then closer to the dipper

and then you reward them. And eventually they put their little mouse paw on the dipper and they hit the dipper and water comes out. And then what do you see the mouse do? The mice, they hit the water all day. That takes a long time to dip or train a mouse. It does.

Some of the students in the class, it would take them weeks. It's not instinct. They don't just figure it out. Oh, look, there's a metal handle. I mean, water comes out. I never once, never once, Joseph, saw a mouse who was thirsty, learned to dipper train to give water

to another mouse. I never saw that happen. I never once was like, the mouse was like, okay, I hit this dipper and Joey, the mouse gets what, this is great. Let me hit the dipper all day. It'll never, he'll never hit the damn dipper. We're no different. Human beings don't go to work to pay for someone else's car. We don't do it. It just doesn't happen. That only happens with communists where it doesn't happen and people starve to death because they're not going to farm their fields to feed government bureaucrats and not their own family. More in a minute, but first. If you're in the market for a rifle, shotgun, or revolver, you want to go with the best in the business.

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I've had him on the show twice in my interview series. Explaining a terrific analogy of why redistributing someone else's efforts never ever works. Analogies are great. Check this out. He talks about three children

fighting over a flute. He says that one of them, Carla, made the flute. A second one, Anne, believes that she is the best flute player and therefore deserves the flute. And a third, Bob, who is the disadvantaged one. Bob has never had a flute and therefore he claims that he's the most deserving recipient of the flute. And essentially Amartya Sen goes, these people all sort of have a claim. He goes, the claim of Carla is the libertarian claim of ownership by creation. The claim of Anne is the utilitarian claim that it would maximize happiness to enable the person

who plays the flute best to have the flute. And of course, Bob's claim, you can call it the sort of leftist claim or the progressive claim, the victimology claim. And Amartya Sen's point is, to whom should we assign the flute? And I want to zoom in here on the word we, because you notice what's really going on is Amartya Sen has silently transferred ownership of the flute from the person who made the flute to the state. To whom should we? Somehow he suddenly has a say in who gets the flute. But let's think about it. How did the flute come to be in the first place? Carla made the flute. It's Carla's flute. Absent

Carla, there wouldn't be a flute. So there's no question of redistributing the flute. Flutes don't fall from the sky. Flutes aren't allocated in some original distribution. Flutes are created just as wealth is created. And what de Blasio means by wealth redistribution is confiscating wealth from the people who created it, giving it to people who didn't create it in exchange for their votes. That's the progressive ploy. Amen, brother Dinesh. Beautifully stated. The flute story. Who has the entitlement, air quotes, to the flute? It doesn't matter. The person who created it created the flute. And if they don't create more flutes, there'll be no flutes. If you start taking their flutes and giving them to people who didn't make the flutes, there'll be no more flutes left. It doesn't matter who you think should have the flute.

All that matters is you'll have no more flutes left the minute you take it from the person who actually created it and gave it to someone else. That's all that matters. It'll be the end of flutes. Like it was the end of people eating regularly in communist countries when they instituted confiscation of their farm goods and everybody starved to death in the great famines. Because you're not going to farm your land to feed someone else. The Dan Bongino Show.

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