Daily Rant, January 30, 2009
January 30, 2009
Obama is the Devil?
Well, the American people voted for change and they got it! Obama is moving to the left faster than anyone expected. Instead of taking it in small, palatable chunks, he and Democrats in Congress are trying to get the whole thing all at once. That is why I think it will be unpopular and could mean an unsuccessful run for a second term. Too much too fast… plus it will NOT work.
Albert Brooks had a great line in the movie, “Broadcast News”, where his character said, “What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he’s around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I’m semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing…he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance…”
Now I am not saying that Obama or the Democrats and some Republicans are the Devil, but think about it. Isn’t this how they are pushing their liberal agenda along? Flash over substance? Getting us to lower our standers little by little? What do we think political correctness is? Lowering the standards so that everyone gets a medal whether they win or not.
And now it is about the “stimulus” bill. If Republicans don’t support it they are being partisan… What? How about it’s just a bad pork-laden bill that hasn’t got a single chance to stimulate the economy?
Why Politicians Win By Playing the Class Envy Card
This is something that Republicans need to change if they ever want to win. There are more poor people who vote than rich people. And even many of the rich people are voting Democrat out of “fairness”. Many of the super-rich think they should pay more taxes to help the poor people. What’s stopping them? Send the government a check if you feel that way! Stop spending MY money.
It is the “common” folk who vote people into office in this country. There are more “have-nots” than there are “haves”, at least that is the way they see it. I think there are a lot of “have-nots” who are really “haves” and for some reason just don’t see it. But that’s for another rant.
Anyway, these are not the people who create jobs or create capital in the markets. Therefore, the ones who are voting for people who promise to raise taxes on the rich are really shooting themselves in the foot. Who is going to give them a job? That guy standing out by the freeway with a cup in his hand? I don’t think so.
We have to educate people to look beyond the first blush and keep asking “what happens after that?” For example, a politician says, “We need to tax the rich and give tax cuts to the poor and middle class.”
What happens after that? The poor and middle class are paying little to no taxes already. Is that $500 stimulus check going to make them rich? No, but it’s $500 more than I would have had.
What happens after that? The rich are getting taxed on both income and capital gains. So they have to cut back somewhere. What is the most expensive part of running a business? Employees. So if they can figure out a way to do the same amount of business with fewer people they will do so. Afterall, isn’t that how the industrial revolution took off? Automation replaced many workers and provided goods faster and cheaper than they had by manual labor. Besides, their employer contributions to all the employees’ government benefits go up because of increased taxes, so it makes sense to hire less people.
What happens after that? Joe Common gets a pink slip and makes the evening news as an unemployment statistic. Then he sits at home on welfare or unemployment bitching about how the evil corporations are taking it to him and he votes for the politician who is going to “tax the rich and give tax cuts to the poor and middle class.”
I studied economics, and I know what I am talking about. It’s a vicious cycle that’s why the stock market is reacting negatively to the news about the stimulus package. They know it will only hurt America and keep us in this recession longer. Businessmen know that you can’t continue to spend your way out of debt! Politicians don’t seem to get the concept.
Look at any state that has Democrats or liberal Republicans in control of the purse strings. They are all in trouble, yet they keep getting re-elected. Michigan and California are two prime examples. Yet the dufus public continue to vote for the people that are ruining their state. Remember the definition of insanity???
Ask Heritage.org
Rush keeps talking about www.askheritage.org on his radio show. There is a lot of good information on their website that supports the free market concepts and conservative vaules.
Our Economy
Our stock markets are off. I thought we were promised that if Obama won there would be all this confidence in the economy and all would be sweetness and light. Not so, apparently. In fact, Obama and his advisers are staying it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Then why are we talking about this pork package?
Thoughts About The 60’s
I lived through the 60’s. Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Freedom, that’s what it was all about. So how do old hippies become liberal Democrats? Because they believe basically in socialism? Maybe. For me, the last thing I wanted was big government. Remember the slogans against “Big Brother”? And “Question Authority”? What about that? So why wouldn’t an old sixties radical embrace the Republican mantra of “less government, lower taxes, more freedom”? You’ll have to show up at 6:00 on Friday evening on the corner of Blithedale and Camino Alto in Mill Valley and ask one!
- FedUpPEditor
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