Friday, April 10, 2009
WHEN BILL WHITTLE SPEAKS, I LISTEN
Bill Whittle has a message for the rich in America: Leave.
Here’s an excerpt:
“The Washington Post ran a column a few days ago, in which a Mr. Joel Berg applauds the Obama Administration for reducing the amount of charitable deduction that The Rich are allowed to take when they write a check to charity.”
“Mr. Berg – who runs a charitable foundation that feeds the poor — explains things for us thusly: ‘Combined with other progressive Obama tax proposals, that change would not only start to redress the inequality gap that has engulfed America in recent decades but would also help to pay for many effective domestic programs…’”
“…Which Mr. Berg then helpfully goes on to list."
“Well, I read this article in the Washington Post, and I thought: there you have it. The top ten percent, that pays sixty percent of the total income tax and which allows the bottom half – HALF! – to pay nothing… Those horrible, greedy bastards are not using their free-will generosity as ‘efficiently’ as the government can, so let’s just take more of their money and call it square. “
“So let me now send a personal message to The Rich in America…”
“As an American and a patriot, I implore you – I go to my knees and beg you – LEAVE NOW."
"[O]n behalf of those few of us who still believe in the Land of Opportunity, I beg you and implore you, in the name of our common patriot ancestors who worked so hard and sacrificed so much so that we could become so spoiled and ungrateful: take your 60% of the total income taxes and just go away.”
“Because if you do, then there will no longer be an Enemy for the Left to stick it to. Then, perhaps, the half of the country that pays no income tax might have to put some skin in the game. Then, perhaps, with most of the wealth generation gone we will turn to our community organizers to provide the wealth creation, and the tax dollars, and the innovation. When you have gone, the President of the United States, supported by an army of little acorns like Joel Berg, will have to start calling for the rest of us to be taxed more to address the inequality gap.”
“That’s what I want.”
“You see, I’ve actually been there. I have experienced this pathology from the inside."
"That is the pathology – that is the sickness – that dependency breeds: resentment and hostility to those that help you the most.”
I posted on Joel Berg here, but Bill Whittle did a better job. Read the entire article.
Here’s an excerpt:
“The Washington Post ran a column a few days ago, in which a Mr. Joel Berg applauds the Obama Administration for reducing the amount of charitable deduction that The Rich are allowed to take when they write a check to charity.”
“Mr. Berg – who runs a charitable foundation that feeds the poor — explains things for us thusly: ‘Combined with other progressive Obama tax proposals, that change would not only start to redress the inequality gap that has engulfed America in recent decades but would also help to pay for many effective domestic programs…’”
“…Which Mr. Berg then helpfully goes on to list."
“Well, I read this article in the Washington Post, and I thought: there you have it. The top ten percent, that pays sixty percent of the total income tax and which allows the bottom half – HALF! – to pay nothing… Those horrible, greedy bastards are not using their free-will generosity as ‘efficiently’ as the government can, so let’s just take more of their money and call it square. “
“So let me now send a personal message to The Rich in America…”
“As an American and a patriot, I implore you – I go to my knees and beg you – LEAVE NOW."
"[O]n behalf of those few of us who still believe in the Land of Opportunity, I beg you and implore you, in the name of our common patriot ancestors who worked so hard and sacrificed so much so that we could become so spoiled and ungrateful: take your 60% of the total income taxes and just go away.”
“Because if you do, then there will no longer be an Enemy for the Left to stick it to. Then, perhaps, the half of the country that pays no income tax might have to put some skin in the game. Then, perhaps, with most of the wealth generation gone we will turn to our community organizers to provide the wealth creation, and the tax dollars, and the innovation. When you have gone, the President of the United States, supported by an army of little acorns like Joel Berg, will have to start calling for the rest of us to be taxed more to address the inequality gap.”
“That’s what I want.”
“You see, I’ve actually been there. I have experienced this pathology from the inside."
"That is the pathology – that is the sickness – that dependency breeds: resentment and hostility to those that help you the most.”
I posted on Joel Berg here, but Bill Whittle did a better job. Read the entire article.
WHERE ARE THE LOONS?
Ordinarily I use “Where are the clowns?” to caption tripe such as this, but “clown” just isn’t adequate to describe the darkness of this conspiracy theorist.
Oh, my. Would anyone care to remind this young gentleman of the protests of the Viet Nam era? By his side?
I get it: Conservatives bad. Liberals good.
Of course. Jim Bob, Billy Joe, and Cooter are going to exercise their Second Amendment rights in camouflage and with assault weapons.
And of course former President Bush wasn’t elected democratically.
Uh, have you heard about the First Amendment? Freedom of speech and all that? Oh, it only applies to your side?
Seems to me that he missed his mark by about 3 years and 11 months.
With the notoriously conservative Tea Party movement gaining steam, is it time to take the ‘United’ out of ‘United States’? ... Their arguments have the potential to divide the country along titanic lines not seen since the bloody days of the Civil War.
Oh, my. Would anyone care to remind this young gentleman of the protests of the Viet Nam era? By his side?
Think I’m exaggerating here? The Tea Party movement is an incredibly dangerous concept, fuelled by the usual gushes of sycophantic support from the conservative news media (here’s looking at you, Fox).
I get it: Conservatives bad. Liberals good.
Can you imagine the potential for chaos if some of these ‘protesters’ decide to exercise the Second Amendment and bring their weapons to these rallies? There’s a thin line between peaceful protest and bloodthirsty patriotic fervor, especially if those protesting are used to being on the side of the mighty status quo.
Of course. Jim Bob, Billy Joe, and Cooter are going to exercise their Second Amendment rights in camouflage and with assault weapons.
President Obama was elected democratically, according to the doctrines set forth by the Founding Fathers.
And of course former President Bush wasn’t elected democratically.
The Tea Party movement represents a real danger to the tenets of democracy Americans have embraced for centuries.
Uh, have you heard about the First Amendment? Freedom of speech and all that? Oh, it only applies to your side?
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Seems to me that he missed his mark by about 3 years and 11 months.
WHERE DID OUR STIMULUS MONEY GO?
Ask Google. On February 14, with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Congress shoveled $787 billion of stimulus money out the door. Now they're using Google to find out where it went.
The bill's supporters stressed that it included strong oversight safeguards. So Google is a “strong oversight safeguard”?
[T]he Binghamton, New York Press & News-Bulletin ... reported that the small town of Union, New York would receive $578,661 from the [HUD’s Homeless Prevention] Fund, even though "Union did not request the money and does not currently have homeless programs in place in the town to administer such funds."
[T]he Altoona Mirror reported that the small central Pennsylvania town was going to receive $819,000 from the Fund even though Altoona officials "may not have enough of a homelessness problem to use it."
WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania saying the city would receive $855,478 from the Fund, but does not know what to do with it.
The bill's supporters stressed that it included strong oversight safeguards. So Google is a “strong oversight safeguard”?
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