Has it ever happened to you, that you receive a comment to your blog, which makes you feel jealous? It reinforces what you wrote, but does it so much better? Or a commenter comes with a comment, which is better than your blog? Making you feel shallow?

It happens to me. I am blessed with some comments, that make me feel all of the above. 

For some timea lready here on AR we have the option to reblog. I think I used it once or twice at most. Often these are sign of laziness by rebloggers (what an awkward word), but often I am grateful to rebloggers as otherwise I would have missed some of the most powerful blogs on AR. The latest example is the post by Janet Guiilbault Economic Cancer: That Sense of "Entitlement" It was originally posted October 23, 2009, and if not for reblogs, I would have missed it.

However, time from time I read comments to the blogs, which are so well thought, written, right on the money, and which could be full-scale blogs and bring more points to the commenter, and it strikes me that we do not have a reblog of a comment feature on AR.

That would be a rare occasion, but these comments worth being re-blogged (re-commented?). So why don't I start this in the way that I can, i.e. write about the comment that I believe should be read by way more people, that are simply commenting on my blog.

Tim Maitski is not a new guy on the block. This Atlanta agent has accumulated over 200,000 AR points, runs a pretty successful Real Estate business. This is pretty much what I know about him. However, time from time I read his blogs or comments, which are not about Real Estate, but about us as a nation (otherwise called political), and he stuns me with his analysis. He says he is not not the average Atlanta Real Estate agent. I am not in that area, and do not have any real estate interests in that area. But he is sure not the average guy in terms of his interests and knowledge.

Lately we are using the word "entitlements "more and more. And here is his comment on my blog post Fixing The Economy. For Better or for Worse?

"Jon,  So much of what's going on today was written about back in 1850 by Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"

Here is a quote that is appropriate to what you write about here:

     But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law - which may be an isolated case - is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.

The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protect and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.

Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it."

Can we say it better today? Are we wiser today? Yes, Tim used a quote. He didnot write it himself. But this quote somehow shows Tim's caliber.

Thank you, Tim