The Democratic Party has been tacking to the left for fifty years. Unfortunately, a timid and often witless Republican Party has allowed themselves to be pulled along. The depressing result is plain old crappy ideas being accepted as compromise to insanely crappy ideas. Well, not anymore in Wisconsin! We finally have a principled, conservative governor. His perfectly reasonable proposals will save a State that has been swirling the drain after eight years of democrat control. As an added benefit, we get whining liberals exposing the vacuum of their ideology.
That big ol' blob of liberal goo, Michael Moore, was in Madison recently to show solidarity with the workers paradise crowd. This is the same guy that claims individual wealth in this country has been stolen and rightfully belongs to the collective. Classic socialist drivel.
A recent column by Matthew Hayes in the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, Einstein, socialism and the Wisconsin budget, continues on this theme. In a feeble attempt to bring credibility to his argument, Hayes cites some statements made by Einstein in a 1949 essay titled, “Why socialism?” I read the essay and found it somewhat interesting. I will save further comment on Einstein for another day. Right now, I want to focus on some of the comments made by Hayes.
He states, “The governor's recent budget proposal...reflects a political ideology that believes that government is providing too much to too many people.” Seeing as we are flat broke and facing a $3.6 billion deficit in the next biannual budget, that would be correct. Ding!
“It also reflects the fear that government is invasive and dangerous.” Founding Fathers, what do you think?: Ding! Ding!
“Those of us who believe that the government should maintain a strong role in certain aspects of human endeavors, such as health care, consumer protections and workers' collective bargaining rights, are now often labeled as socialists.” Here's how it works. Those things that fly in the sky are birds, those things that swim in the lake are fish and people like you are socialists. It's really quite simple.
“However, we should not fear socialism. ...In fact, there are many thriving democracies throughout the world that have been shaped by strong socialist political movements.” Is he referring to that workers' paradise in Cuba or maybe those thriving countries in the European Union. The only reason those little socialists even lasted this long is because they had Big Daddy, The U.S.A., protecting their sorry asses.
“The ideology that produced this budget fails to consider that government intervention does not necessarily mean a loss of individual rights or a loss of individual initiative.” Only every time it's been tried! Yes, indeed, those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Monday, October 20, 2008
MARX FOR OBAMA
As I have discussed previously, liberals are full of wacky and often dangerous ideas. They have beliefs that are antithetical to the truly American philosophy of individual rights and freedom. Because most clear headed Americans find liberal ideas and beliefs offensive, liberal politicians need to be good bullshitters. And, if you are going to run for the highest office in the land, you need to be an expert. Barack Obama is a master of obfuscation and deceit. Sure, his challenge is made easier by a fawning media, but there is no denying his oratory skills. But, it’s a long campaign and even Obama screws up on occasion and we are able to get a glimpse of the real man. I’m not talking about routine gaffes, like his initial reaction to Russia’s invasion of Georgia. While their homeland was being overrun by Russian tanks, Obama encouraged the Georgians to “take it easy”. He issued several statements calling for the UN Security Council to pass resolutions condemning the Russian aggression and for economic sanctions against them. Apparently, Obama did not know that as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia has veto powers. I’m pretty sure that the Russkies wouldn’t go along with those types of resolutions. For a man who wants to be president, this shows an appalling lack of knowledge in foreign affairs. Apparently, it hasn’t hurt him much. Knowledge can be gained with experience and it seems that many Americans aren’t concerned that Obama will be getting his experience while he is on the job, during a time of war, no less.
Lack of knowledge and experience is bad enough, but what concerns me even more is Obama’s underlying political philosophy as revealed during his brief moments of candor. In a debate with Hillary during the Democratic primary, Obama was asked about his proposal to raise the capital gains tax from 15% to the Clinton era level of 28%. Initially, he blabbered the standard democratic line about financing health care and education and the need for revenue sources. When the moderator pointed out the fact that revenues to the treasury go down whenever the capital gains tax is raised and that revenues increase when the tax is lowered, Obama finally admitted that he would raise the tax out of a sense of fairness. That’s right. Fairness is achieved when all are equally miserable. While helping no one, Obama wants to punish those with the audacity to take risks and the desire to succeed. He is appealing to the most depraved of human emotions, greed and envy. He is absolving all personal failure by criminalizing individual success. Hope and change my ass! He is the candidate of despair and bitterness. God help us if he gets elected.
Then, just last week, Obama stepped into the light again when he told “Joe the plumber” that “when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody”. I agree. The question is, how to best do that? Obama wants to spread the wealth through government tax policies. This is the essence of socialism. Obama proposes to use the coercive power of the state and ultimately it’s monopoly on the organized use of force to regulate and expropriate the wealth of those that produce it and redistribute it to those he deems as entitled to it. Socialism institutionalizes envy and class warfare and legitimizes government theft by calling it “paying your fair share”. It is a morally bankrupt system that has failed every time it’s been tried. It will be no different with Obama leading the way.
I would prefer that we “spread the wealth around” in the traditional American way. Not only is the free market, capitalist system morally superior to socialism, it actually works. It is morally superior because it enables free people, acting as individual moral agents, to trade or sell goods and services of their own free will and on the basis of mutual consent. As with any system, there will still be winners and losers, but they are determined by the actions of the individual, not by the favor of some government bureaucrat.
Lack of knowledge and experience is bad enough, but what concerns me even more is Obama’s underlying political philosophy as revealed during his brief moments of candor. In a debate with Hillary during the Democratic primary, Obama was asked about his proposal to raise the capital gains tax from 15% to the Clinton era level of 28%. Initially, he blabbered the standard democratic line about financing health care and education and the need for revenue sources. When the moderator pointed out the fact that revenues to the treasury go down whenever the capital gains tax is raised and that revenues increase when the tax is lowered, Obama finally admitted that he would raise the tax out of a sense of fairness. That’s right. Fairness is achieved when all are equally miserable. While helping no one, Obama wants to punish those with the audacity to take risks and the desire to succeed. He is appealing to the most depraved of human emotions, greed and envy. He is absolving all personal failure by criminalizing individual success. Hope and change my ass! He is the candidate of despair and bitterness. God help us if he gets elected.
Then, just last week, Obama stepped into the light again when he told “Joe the plumber” that “when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody”. I agree. The question is, how to best do that? Obama wants to spread the wealth through government tax policies. This is the essence of socialism. Obama proposes to use the coercive power of the state and ultimately it’s monopoly on the organized use of force to regulate and expropriate the wealth of those that produce it and redistribute it to those he deems as entitled to it. Socialism institutionalizes envy and class warfare and legitimizes government theft by calling it “paying your fair share”. It is a morally bankrupt system that has failed every time it’s been tried. It will be no different with Obama leading the way.
I would prefer that we “spread the wealth around” in the traditional American way. Not only is the free market, capitalist system morally superior to socialism, it actually works. It is morally superior because it enables free people, acting as individual moral agents, to trade or sell goods and services of their own free will and on the basis of mutual consent. As with any system, there will still be winners and losers, but they are determined by the actions of the individual, not by the favor of some government bureaucrat.
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