On the heels of Barack Obama's golf trip to Florida with Tiger Woods at the same time Michelle and the girls went to Aspen, home to the world's rich and famous, once again made me understand the difference between Obama-style and Romney-style (aka member communist politburo vs. capitalist).
Obama: Ostentatious lifestyle funded by the people!
Romney: Worked hard, took risks and created the lifestyle of a successful capitalist funded by his own earned wealth!
Final Thoughts!
Barack Obama's incessant rhetoric concerning the plight of the middle class belies the actual actions of this President who is living the lifestyle of the rich and famous on our dime!
If he had any actual feeling or empathy for the plight of the everyman perhaps he would stay home and play board games with the family around the White House fireplace!
At the same time Barack Obama's constant fear mongering about the effects of sequestration highlights the fact that what this President cares about is not the middle class but rather using the country and its people as pawns in some destructive political game!
Because the reality is that $82 billion in automatic spending cuts are merely a drop in the federal budget bucket and the places that any cuts would actually be made are at the discretion of the President who will seek to make them as painful as possible so that the American people will point their fingers of blame at the Republican Party.
Think for a second about the fact that the Hurricane Sandy relief legislation alone was packed with over $40 billion of pork! Why not just start the spending cuts there?
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Warren Hill “Not Competent to Be Executed”?
Warren Lee Hill was scheduled to be executed in Georgia last
night, but he has been granted a stay of execution because the courts are now
convinced he might be retarded. Apparently, Georgia passed a law in 1988
prohibiting the execution of the mentally handicapped, and the Supreme Court
has also ruled that this would be unconstitutional. I didn’t know the
Constitution talked about mental health issues (must be in the interstate
commerce clause), but…
Warren Lee Hill was in prison originally for murdering his
girlfriend. He shot her 11 times. While in prison, he killed again, beating
another inmate to death with a nail-spiked board. Was he messed up in the head?
Clearly. Was he stupid? Undoubtedly. Does this mean he shouldn’t be executed? I
don’t think so.
If we can for a moment assume that execution is a valid form of
punishment for certain crimes (and murder would definitely be on the list), I
fail to see how someone’s mental capacity before or after the crime matters at
all.
Let’s take the materialist position briefly and say the man is no
more than a mass of tissue and chemical interactions. No different than an
animal, according to the materialist. Well, do you put down a rabid dog? It’s
not the dog’s fault that it’s a danger to society, but you still kill it before
it can do any more damage.
And there will be people that say, “How dare you compare these
people to animals! They are human beings!” I agree. And execution has more
human dignity than imprisonment, just ask Michel Foucault. You put a man in a
cage and feed him dog food, and you force his victims to pay for it. I would
have him pay with his life for a life he took.
Well, two lives now.
Which reminds me. If they had executed Warren Hill for the first murder he
committed, he never would have committed the second. That’s the first benefit
of capital punishment. Even if it didn’t deter other people from committing
similar crimes (which it does), it at least prevents the executed person from
committing any other crimes.
But let’s assume Warren Hill has a soul, (which I don’t believe,
but for the sake of all religious which is an overwhelming majority of you, let’s
say you’re right). Then his soul must have some culpability for these murders.
If not, how can you blame anyone for anything? How intelligent do you have to
be to be culpable for your actions? And why does a person have to understand
what he’s doing in order to be responsible for it? I don’t think most big
government advocates understand fully how absolutely evil their political
schemes are. They are, shall we say, a bit retarded. Does that mean they’re not
responsible?
I can’t seem to find the logic in this. Should punishment depend
on the understanding of the perpetrator? If you made it so, criminals would
suddenly cease to understand anything. “What? Stealing is wrong? Who knew? I am really, really sorry. I know nothing.” This method of escaping punishment is ancient.
This has been the problem with measures like this from the beginning.
Insanity pleas are a sliding line, far too easy to manipulate. And this is no
different. Warren Hill loaded and fired a gun. He spiked a board with nails. He
was competent enough to kill. He’s competent enough to be executed. Whether or
not he understood the full import of what he did is immaterial. The crucial
thing here is not what he knows, but what he did. The punishment should fit itself to the crime… not
the criminal.
Are we breeding a generation of deluded narcissists?
The answer is yes.
Now add selfishness, entitlement mentality, victim mentality, me--me--me and you get a new level of unearned hubris. There is no guaranteed equal outcome as promised by the left.
On its face narcissism would seem to conflict with the entitlement and victim mentalities, but they're all blended together into a spirit of collective narcissism, leavened with doses of paranoia and despair. I think it goes something like this:
1. We are all special butterflies who deserve everything.
2. Making stern demands of people is cruel. Making me do what I say rather than just allowing me to say it vindictive and malicious.
3. Good people should never suffer from random misfortune - ranging from illness to job loss, or even the failure of entrepreneurial risk.
4. Special interests are so powerful that even the biggest government in the history of the world remains the underdog in battle against them. What chance do individuals have against something like that?
5. Therefore, our self-regard can only be expressed collectively - we must support even larger, more powerful, and more virtuous government with all of our hearts, because we see our own noble spirit reflected within it. And, as a happy side benefit, when the State does everything of consequence, it's easier to be indolent without guilt.
I've often wondered how much the Nineties Cult of Self-Esteem contributed to all this, as it aggressively pushed the notion that respect (and the attendant material benefits) are deserved, rather than earned.
These are the Obama voters..
The answer is yes.
Now add selfishness, entitlement mentality, victim mentality, me--me--me and you get a new level of unearned hubris. There is no guaranteed equal outcome as promised by the left.
On its face narcissism would seem to conflict with the entitlement and victim mentalities, but they're all blended together into a spirit of collective narcissism, leavened with doses of paranoia and despair. I think it goes something like this:
1. We are all special butterflies who deserve everything.
2. Making stern demands of people is cruel. Making me do what I say rather than just allowing me to say it vindictive and malicious.
3. Good people should never suffer from random misfortune - ranging from illness to job loss, or even the failure of entrepreneurial risk.
4. Special interests are so powerful that even the biggest government in the history of the world remains the underdog in battle against them. What chance do individuals have against something like that?
5. Therefore, our self-regard can only be expressed collectively - we must support even larger, more powerful, and more virtuous government with all of our hearts, because we see our own noble spirit reflected within it. And, as a happy side benefit, when the State does everything of consequence, it's easier to be indolent without guilt.
I've often wondered how much the Nineties Cult of Self-Esteem contributed to all this, as it aggressively pushed the notion that respect (and the attendant material benefits) are deserved, rather than earned.
These are the Obama voters..
Monday, February 18, 2013
Logic-Political Correctness and Zombies
Common sense is anything but common. Like every action a human being
can perform, either physical or mental, common sense must be learned. A human
being is not born with such ability, fully developed. And logic must accompany
common sense. Logic is a discipline that is based upon fact and evidence of
whatsoever is true. Logic teaches one to think. Without it, “common sense”
would still dictate that the earth is flat. Logic used to be a required subject
in school. It isn’t anymore. That isn’t an oversight. In his book The Intended Result of Education Bertrand Russell
wrote: “Education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils
have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives,
of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.”
The left is never required to prove anything. Leftists make a
statement and whatever they say automatically becomes true because they say it
is so. We are expected to choke down their swill without a murmur of protest.
Every media outlet, whether entertainment, mainstream media or our
elected representatives tells us only what they want us to believe regardless
of how frequently what they tell us changes. And a dumbed-down populace meekly
swallows, without dispute.
Political Correctness completes the destructive circle. When
thinking is restricted thinking ceases to exist. Everything from eroding
personal freedoms to gun control to the blind acceptance of any and every
perversion stems from what is permissible thought and what is not. We have
“hate crime.” Hate crime outranks crime. Why? Isn’t murder still murder?
Still worse, certain interest groups, we are told, are exempt from
hate crime. Their status as minorities makes hate crime impossible. Christopher
Dorner is a prime example. He slaughtered nearly every racial type and gender
of human being yet excuses are made and the mainstream media urges us to
consider the discrimination he was “fighting against.” Dorner is considered a
folk-hero by many. The University of Wisconsin is teaching a course whose focus
is that it is “unfair to be white.” Who gets to decree what’s unfair and what
is not? What are the criteria? Dr. Benjamin Carson, an honored, world-famous,
pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins, had the audacity to raise the alarm PC
poses to thought at the National Prayer Breakfast in D.C. He did it with the
President sitting a few feet away.
How unutterably sad that PC begs the question, had Dr. Carson not been a black man, would his reputation have
survived making that speech? Because he did so there is still doubt; a mindless
media is trying to marginalize and discredit him for committing the blasphemy
of speaking his mind.
When logic, common sense and the ability to say what one thinks
become irrelevant how much easier does it become for any ruling class to supply
whatever “facts” they want their constituency to believe? Our current reality
is that fact no longer has standing; instead we pay court to emotion. The
danger in not understanding that this is the
real predicament is immense; if one doesn’t recognize the problem how can one
fix the problem?
Libtards have controlled education, social services and PC for
nearly 100 years. “Low information voters” are created when only low
information is made available; when indoctrination replaces education. An
eighth grade education used to be tantamount to what is currently taught in
college. The left’s agenda may well be the destruction of our ability to think,
to be logical.
Without such aptitude there is no rule of law. Everything becomes
mutable. The Constitution becomes disposable. Without thought we are unable to
protect ourselves. We become the pawns of whoever governs over us. Absence of
logical thought makes it easy to see how the man spearheading our ruin got
reelected.
And it makes Libtards immune to Zombie attacks. Zombies are slow, and stupid, and they groan. They say the zombie apocalypse is upon
us.
But unfortunately, zombies won’t be eating any Libtards.
See, zombies like brains.
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Yeah … I know … Obama won. He won because he and his Democrat pals did a really good job of building a moocher majority in this country .. and a really good job of promoting class warfare.
He was also assisted by a pathetic GOP campaign and ground effort. He may have won, but I’m not going to stop reminding you – especially you idiot ObamaVoters – of just what an unqualified hack Obama is.
So I find this gem on the “U.S. Constitutional Free Press” website. It’s a list prepared by someone using the name “John Galt” of all of the things our Dear Ruler has NEVER DONE. And we hired this tool to run our country?
Barack Obama is a man who has:
* Never had to write a business plan
* Never had to review a business plan to determine its worthiness
* Never had to create a budget for a private business
* Never had to calculate the economic worth of an existing or new employee for a business
* Never had to worry about the cost of benefits provided to a business employee
* Never had to worry about whether or not a business was making a profit
* Never had to explain to a boss or to shareholders why a business was losing money
* Never had to file a business tax return * Never had to talk to an accountant about business matters
* Never had to hire an attorney to deal with business matters
* Never had to worry about the effects of government regulations on a business he owns or operates
* Never had to tell an employee that he was being let go because business was slow
* Never had to place a “help-wanted” ad looking for a new worker
* Never had to look at a list of revenues and expenses to determine how much a new employee can be paid.
* Never had to face competition from a new business down the street
Good luck Obama voters you're going to need it.
He was also assisted by a pathetic GOP campaign and ground effort. He may have won, but I’m not going to stop reminding you – especially you idiot ObamaVoters – of just what an unqualified hack Obama is.
So I find this gem on the “U.S. Constitutional Free Press” website. It’s a list prepared by someone using the name “John Galt” of all of the things our Dear Ruler has NEVER DONE. And we hired this tool to run our country?
Barack Obama is a man who has:
* Never had to write a business plan
* Never had to review a business plan to determine its worthiness
* Never had to create a budget for a private business
* Never had to calculate the economic worth of an existing or new employee for a business
* Never had to worry about the cost of benefits provided to a business employee
* Never had to worry about whether or not a business was making a profit
* Never had to explain to a boss or to shareholders why a business was losing money
* Never had to file a business tax return * Never had to talk to an accountant about business matters
* Never had to hire an attorney to deal with business matters
* Never had to worry about the effects of government regulations on a business he owns or operates
* Never had to tell an employee that he was being let go because business was slow
* Never had to place a “help-wanted” ad looking for a new worker
* Never had to look at a list of revenues and expenses to determine how much a new employee can be paid.
* Never had to face competition from a new business down the street
Good luck Obama voters you're going to need it.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Princess Pelosi is just too stupid..
Let’s start out with a little quote, shall we?
“I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this myself in the late 70s in San Francisco, this king of rhetoric. … It created a climate in which violence took place. … I wish we would all curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements and understand that some of the ears that it is falling on are not a balanced as the person making the statements may assume.”
That was in reference to the recent Occupy Wall Street crowd, right? Wrong. That was Nancy Pelosi talking about the tea party in 2009. What does she have to say about the Occupy Wall Street kids? “God bless them.” Let’s take a look at some of the rhetoric from these “blessed” kids and those who are speaking at their rallies
…
In New Orleans we have people marching who are apparently shouting to “Kill the cops!”
This occupier in New York has a message for Republicans: “They want a class war? They’ll get one …”
Sometimes actions speak louder than words .. a protestor in New York was photographed defecating on a police car.
Actor Danny Glover spoke at an occupy demonstration in LA where he said, “We need 24/7 warriors.”
This is just a smattering of the incidents being reported around the country. What does Nancy Pelosi have to say about this kind of behavior? She doesn’t. She only has a message for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who referred to these kids at “mobs.” Pelosi says, "I didn't hear him say anything when the Tea Party was out demonstrating, actually spitting on members of Congress right here in the Capitol and he and his colleagues were putting signs in the windows encouraging them. But let's not get down to that." Perhaps the reason Princess Pelosi doesn’t want to get into that is because there is no documented proof that tea party protestors spit on members of Congress. Meanwhile, we have lots of documented proof of the antics of these Wall Street kids.
While the tea party protestors were calling for Congress to “kill the bill” (ObamaCare), the occupy Wall Street crowd is calling to “kill the wealthy.” Where is Nancy Pelosi’s comment on this type of behavior or rhetoric … the pot calling the kettle black?
“I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this myself in the late 70s in San Francisco, this king of rhetoric. … It created a climate in which violence took place. … I wish we would all curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements and understand that some of the ears that it is falling on are not a balanced as the person making the statements may assume.”
That was in reference to the recent Occupy Wall Street crowd, right? Wrong. That was Nancy Pelosi talking about the tea party in 2009. What does she have to say about the Occupy Wall Street kids? “God bless them.” Let’s take a look at some of the rhetoric from these “blessed” kids and those who are speaking at their rallies
…
In New Orleans we have people marching who are apparently shouting to “Kill the cops!”
This occupier in New York has a message for Republicans: “They want a class war? They’ll get one …”
Sometimes actions speak louder than words .. a protestor in New York was photographed defecating on a police car.
Actor Danny Glover spoke at an occupy demonstration in LA where he said, “We need 24/7 warriors.”
This is just a smattering of the incidents being reported around the country. What does Nancy Pelosi have to say about this kind of behavior? She doesn’t. She only has a message for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who referred to these kids at “mobs.” Pelosi says, "I didn't hear him say anything when the Tea Party was out demonstrating, actually spitting on members of Congress right here in the Capitol and he and his colleagues were putting signs in the windows encouraging them. But let's not get down to that." Perhaps the reason Princess Pelosi doesn’t want to get into that is because there is no documented proof that tea party protestors spit on members of Congress. Meanwhile, we have lots of documented proof of the antics of these Wall Street kids.
While the tea party protestors were calling for Congress to “kill the bill” (ObamaCare), the occupy Wall Street crowd is calling to “kill the wealthy.” Where is Nancy Pelosi’s comment on this type of behavior or rhetoric … the pot calling the kettle black?
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
A Plan to run Haiti
The Libtards occupying Wall Street have come up with a proposed list of their demands. You are going to enjoy these .. are you ready?
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
Let’s let the Occupy Wall Street crowd run Haiti for a few years utilizing these demands and see how well that works out for them. And do any of you think for one minute that Obama is not on board with these Marxists?
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
Let’s let the Occupy Wall Street crowd run Haiti for a few years utilizing these demands and see how well that works out for them. And do any of you think for one minute that Obama is not on board with these Marxists?
A Dick is still a Dick
Check out the cajones on this guy, Dick Durbin.
First he crafts new federal regulations to cap the amount banks can charge retailers for swipe fees for processing debit cards.
Then the banks warn that this regulation will cost them millions, maybe even billions. And because businesses are in business to … make money … they will not just sit back and take it. This will force them to pass on the costs to the consumer.
Dick Durbin includes his amendment in the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill and it passes and becomes the law of the land.
Banks, such as Bank of America, announce that they will now start charging customers a fee for using their debit cards, thanks to Durbin’s financial regulations.
Then Dick Durbin gets up on the floor of the Senate and says, “Bank of America customers, vote with your feet … Get the heck out of that bank. Find yourself a bank or credit union that won’t gouge you for $5 a month and still will give you a debit card that you can use every single day.” He adds, “What Bank of America has done is an outrage.”
An outrage? This is exactly what the industry warned about all along! What’s outrageous is the size of this guy’s gonads .. that he can impose these regulations and then blame the banks when they are forced to comply. Sheesh!
First he crafts new federal regulations to cap the amount banks can charge retailers for swipe fees for processing debit cards.
Then the banks warn that this regulation will cost them millions, maybe even billions. And because businesses are in business to … make money … they will not just sit back and take it. This will force them to pass on the costs to the consumer.
Dick Durbin includes his amendment in the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill and it passes and becomes the law of the land.
Banks, such as Bank of America, announce that they will now start charging customers a fee for using their debit cards, thanks to Durbin’s financial regulations.
Then Dick Durbin gets up on the floor of the Senate and says, “Bank of America customers, vote with your feet … Get the heck out of that bank. Find yourself a bank or credit union that won’t gouge you for $5 a month and still will give you a debit card that you can use every single day.” He adds, “What Bank of America has done is an outrage.”
An outrage? This is exactly what the industry warned about all along! What’s outrageous is the size of this guy’s gonads .. that he can impose these regulations and then blame the banks when they are forced to comply. Sheesh!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Here’s a prime example of why this country is suffering from a crisis of confidence. The people --- even the ObamaBots --- are learning that you simply can’t believe a durn thing that comes out of Dear Ruler’s mouth .. or should I say, that a speech writer enters into Dear Ruler’s teleprompter.
Just a few days ago, Barack Obama gave a speech announcing his grand plan to reduce our deficit. He spent much of the time demonizing the wealthy, harping on the millionaires and billionaires and corporations, and telling people to pay their fair share. Throughout it all he insisted, "This is not class warfare.” He said, “I reject the idea that asking a hedge fund manager to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare. I think it’s just the right the thing to do.” Hate to tell you this Obama but even if you think it is right, doesn’t mean that you aren’t waging war against the achievers in our nation. But he insists, “This is not class warfare. It’s math.”
However, just two days later during a speech in New York, Barack “this is not class warfare” Obama declares himself to be a warrior for the middle class.
“Now, you’re already hearing the Republicans in Congress dusting off the old talking points. You can write their press releases. “Class warfare,” they say. You know what, if asking a billionaire to pay the same rate as a plumber or a teacher makes me a warrior for the middle class, I wear that charge as a badge of honor.”
Folks, there are only so many ways I can say this. Barack Obama is full of shit. He is a warrior for the middle class because he is championing the idea that the government needs to use its police power of government to take stuff away from wealthy people and give it to people more likely to vote for him. Even if Obama succeeded in doing that, it would hardly make a difference to our spending/debt/deficit crisis … though it would certainly affect (negatively) jobs and investment, seeing as these evil rich people are the ones who invest in companies and create the jobs. The Tax Foundation has some more enlightening statistics for you using IRS statistics:
Taking half of the yearly income from every person making between one and ten million dollars would only decrease the nation's debt by 1%. Even taking every last penny from every individual making more than $10 million per year would only reduce the nation's deficit by 12 percent and the debt by 2 percent.
Not enough? Here’s another way to look at it!
If the highest rate of 35% were raised by a factor of 20% to 42%, then the additional tax revenue would be $43.5 Billion, not much of a dent in our $1.665 trillion deficit. So, let's raise the rate by a factor of 50% to 52.5%; the additional revenue would be $108.9 billion. Still nowhere near enough, so let's just tax it at a rate of 100%, bringing in an additional $404.8 Billion. Unfortunately the country is still $1.26 trillion in the hole for the year.
Despite the conventional wisdom in Libtardia, revenue is not the problem in this country. The problem with our system is not that we are allowing rich people to keep too much of their money … that’s lib logic, by the way … the problem is that we simply are spending too much. How can people forget that Obama increased government spending by more than 25% in his first two and one-half years? Just how does he get away with this? He increases spending by that amount and doubles our debt ... then he says that our problem is that the rich simply are not paying their “fair share” in taxes.
And by the way, the “fair share” term is all you need to understand that this is a class warfare campaign. It’s all he has --- he has no record of accomplishment to run on in next year’s election. Stirring hatred and resentment for high-achievers is his preferred method. Not that Obama cares, but America simply cannot afford a European welfare state without sacrificing our freedoms to pay for it.
Just a few days ago, Barack Obama gave a speech announcing his grand plan to reduce our deficit. He spent much of the time demonizing the wealthy, harping on the millionaires and billionaires and corporations, and telling people to pay their fair share. Throughout it all he insisted, "This is not class warfare.” He said, “I reject the idea that asking a hedge fund manager to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare. I think it’s just the right the thing to do.” Hate to tell you this Obama but even if you think it is right, doesn’t mean that you aren’t waging war against the achievers in our nation. But he insists, “This is not class warfare. It’s math.”
However, just two days later during a speech in New York, Barack “this is not class warfare” Obama declares himself to be a warrior for the middle class.
“Now, you’re already hearing the Republicans in Congress dusting off the old talking points. You can write their press releases. “Class warfare,” they say. You know what, if asking a billionaire to pay the same rate as a plumber or a teacher makes me a warrior for the middle class, I wear that charge as a badge of honor.”
Folks, there are only so many ways I can say this. Barack Obama is full of shit. He is a warrior for the middle class because he is championing the idea that the government needs to use its police power of government to take stuff away from wealthy people and give it to people more likely to vote for him. Even if Obama succeeded in doing that, it would hardly make a difference to our spending/debt/deficit crisis … though it would certainly affect (negatively) jobs and investment, seeing as these evil rich people are the ones who invest in companies and create the jobs. The Tax Foundation has some more enlightening statistics for you using IRS statistics:
Taking half of the yearly income from every person making between one and ten million dollars would only decrease the nation's debt by 1%. Even taking every last penny from every individual making more than $10 million per year would only reduce the nation's deficit by 12 percent and the debt by 2 percent.
Not enough? Here’s another way to look at it!
If the highest rate of 35% were raised by a factor of 20% to 42%, then the additional tax revenue would be $43.5 Billion, not much of a dent in our $1.665 trillion deficit. So, let's raise the rate by a factor of 50% to 52.5%; the additional revenue would be $108.9 billion. Still nowhere near enough, so let's just tax it at a rate of 100%, bringing in an additional $404.8 Billion. Unfortunately the country is still $1.26 trillion in the hole for the year.
Despite the conventional wisdom in Libtardia, revenue is not the problem in this country. The problem with our system is not that we are allowing rich people to keep too much of their money … that’s lib logic, by the way … the problem is that we simply are spending too much. How can people forget that Obama increased government spending by more than 25% in his first two and one-half years? Just how does he get away with this? He increases spending by that amount and doubles our debt ... then he says that our problem is that the rich simply are not paying their “fair share” in taxes.
And by the way, the “fair share” term is all you need to understand that this is a class warfare campaign. It’s all he has --- he has no record of accomplishment to run on in next year’s election. Stirring hatred and resentment for high-achievers is his preferred method. Not that Obama cares, but America simply cannot afford a European welfare state without sacrificing our freedoms to pay for it.
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