Liberals like to think of themselves as modern day Robin Hoods, but knowing the history of medieval England will give you pause.
The childhood explanation of Robin Hood is that he took from the rich to give to the poor, but their world was a far different place then the world we live in today. There were no property rights. The king owed everything, and the king was their government. Therefore, the “rich” of the time was government.
Kings of the time set out on foreign adventures and crusades. This required lots of money which they extracted from those who stayed home to work the land. Taxing scraps from peasants couldn’t scratch the surface of what was needed to pay off knights and legions of archers. The land owners were forced to pay taxes to the rich king, leaving less money in each community. As today, the poor where hurt by high taxes whether they paid them directly or not.
If Robin Hood did exist, or if he is a myth built upon the want of a hero for their time, he most certainly would be robbing the government in order to help those who were over-taxed.
Share on FacebookFor years, Democrats protected Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. These programs were considered the 3rd rail of American politics. It was widely known that any politician who would dare propose reforms to these programs would be savaged.
These programs are driving us into bankruptcy. This is not a new revelation. We have known this for years and yet have failed to act.
Now the same people who would never compromise on dangerously expensive programs are branding anyone who opposes them as extreme and unyielding. Members of Congress who were elected with Tea Party support are being labeled as rigid ideologues driving the economy into disaster. Get it? Supporting a program for years even though you know it will bankrupt us isn’t extreme or unyielding. It is driven by rigid ideologues. It won’t cause an economic disaster, and yet opposing those programs are. It would be funny if it weren’t so damaging.
The Philadelphia Inquirer published a letter that explains how allowing people to get rich is tyranny. The only way to avoid tyranny is to take from the most successful by taxing them.
This report supports the similar observations made by Dr. Lindzen of MIT.
NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted…(link)
Dr. Lindzen observed that long wave radiation escaping into space has not been decreasing over time. According to the Warming Alarmist, increase CO2 is suppose to be absorbing more of this heat.
How a real scientiest works:
- Propose a theory
- Test the theory
- If observations support theory then the theory might be true.
- If the observations do not support the theory, then the theory is not true
How “activists” do science
- Propose a theory
- Shout the theory
- Manipulate observations to support the theory
- Ignore observations that prove the theory wrong
- Defend the theory at all costs
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) doesn’t want you to focus on the debt debate. He wants you to focus on the players in the debate.
“The debate and fight is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s between some Republicans and their sort of cult fringe as I refer to them out there”
Senator Larkin thinks small government people are a “cult fringe”. That fringe just won a historic election in 2010 wiping out much of the advantage held by Democrats. The Democrats lost their super majority in the Senate and lost control of the House of Representatives. This could hardly be accomplished by a fringe element.
Maybe he is not speaking of small government proponents, but is referring to Tea Partiers as a cult fringe.
18% of Americans refer to themselves as Tea Partiers. That’s not a majority, but it is more than the 11% of workers who belong to a union.
A cult? The tea party does not demand money from their followers. They don’t get so emotional as to induce violence. Tea Partiers are bound by common policies ideas. Union members told what to think of policies ideas. If you want to see a cult, stop by the next teachers union rally.
So, yes…the Republicans are swayed by the Tea Party, but not nearly to the extent that Democrats are swayed by their cult fringe…the unions.
Why is it that Hugo Chavez needs to go to Cuba to get his cancer treatment? Venezuela is rich from oil. They should have more then enough wealth to create a good health system. More than Cuba. I am no expert in Venezuela, but I have to wonder if their socialism is to blame for what must be a mis-allocation of resources.
The light bulb used to be the symbol of a new idea, times are changing. As the ban on the incandescent light bulb approaches, the fight to save the light bulb has become a symbol of freedom.
An old liberal friend from college posted an article from David Brooks on her Facebook wall today. I took the opportunity to make fun of David Brooks, a conservative that I have little respect for. I was then lectured about a national crisis that requires deep thought.
Oh really.
All of a sudden the debt is a crisis. It seems to me that the people who brought up the debt two and half years ago were labeled stupid, radical and racist by those who are now telling us it is a crisis. We are told it is the time for an adult conversation from people who only now realize the seriousness of overspending.
The conservative community has been trying to have that conversation for years. If you want my opinion, read my archives. I’m glad you have come to your senses…even if your motivation is only to preserve the entitlement programs you love so dearly. But…
- Where were your concerns when Obama spent trillions on stimulus, putting your entitlement program in jeopardy?
- Where were you when the Obama-Reid-Pelosi triad didn’t even propose a budget?
- Where were you when Paul Ryan made an honest attempt to address the issue only to by dishonest attacks from your fellow liberals.
So spare me the lecture on the impending crisis. I was bitching about government over spending when Bush signed the $500 billion agriculture spending bill back in 2001.
I pay money into Social Security every month. How is it that we won’t have money to pay seniors Social Security checks? This could only happen if they’re using my Social Security payments for some other purpose. Social Security was sold as insurance but clearly it is just another tax in the biggest wealth redistribution scheme ever created.
Mr. President, you will have my contribution in August. Use my FICA payment to pay the seniors. Tell you overpaid White House staff that their paychecks will not be forthcoming.
Please make this a priority
A Pennsylvania lawmaker has introduced a bill that would no longer require ethanol to be blended into gasoline sold in the state.
Rep. Seth Grove (R-York) said studies have shown that ethanol decreases fuel economy, causes serious problems in older cars, and has impacted food prices by raising the price of corn.
Where are the jobs?
Expanding small business is the kick start needed for recovery, but the President if focused on big business. He bailed out the auto industry and Jeffery Immelt of GE is one of his advisers.
President Obama is big government, central control kind of guy. He thinks the market needs to be ruled by logic instead of the whims of the masses. Progressives like Obama think that intellectuals can steer the economy to a better outcome. To achieve his managed economy requires levers of control.
We don’t live in a dictatorship. Our government was set up to prevent the big government style of Barack Obama. He must find other ways. In the past, liberals have used a variety of ways. They controlled the Congress and the courts for years, but their hold on those institutions have been in a slow decline since the Reagan era. I believe Barack Obama wants a new form of control. It’s not socialism or Marxism. It’s called “corporatism” which seeks to control society by controlling the companies that citizens work for. Social policies and intrusions into the free market can be hidden behind a corporate wall instead of being implicit as they are with laws.
For President Obama point of view, corporatism brings many pluses.
- Big business hires union workers
- Union workers support big government managers like Barack Obama
- Big business is run by a few elites
- Control over social policy
- Control over free market
The government is there for big business. We have devolved into a system where profits are private and corporate losses are socialized. GE paid no taxes, but got a huge bailout the year before. Mr. Obama is ready to bailout any politically correct business that is too big to fail.
It’s a simple relationship. Big business elites implement policies preferred by big government elites. In return, big government imposes regulations that only big business can afford and is there to bail them out when they fail to run a sustainable business. This relationship has hurt small business by making it more difficult to comply with regulations and more expensive to add employees. The results are evident in slow growth and extended unemployment.
It was government working with big banks to give out risky mortgages that created the mortgage bubble. It is the cozy relationship between big business and big government that keeps the economy from rebounding.
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
I know Eric Cantor (the majority leader of the House of Representatives) is doing a great job because AP reports that Harry Reid says:
Cantor should not be in debt limit talks
Harry Reid is the same guy who said Bush was a loser and the Iraq war was lost…right before the surge turned everything. Harry knows he is about to lose again. It’s amazing this guy has the gall to call someone else (anyone else) a loser.
Republicans said tense negotiations over raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit at the White House ended when President Obama stormed out of the meeting with a stern warning to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.): “Don’t call my bluff.”
This makes about as much sense as when the President says we are digging our way out of a hole. If you are in a hole…stop digging. If you are bluffing, don’t challenge your opponent by signalling that you are bluffing.
Is this the kind of critical thinking they teach at Harvard?
Nearly half off all Americans don’t pay income tax so excuse me if the President’s calls for shared sacrifice and pea eating are falling on deaf ears. I hate peas.
