Spreading the Wealth Around
How is it that in their
drive to "spread the wealth around" that plutocrat Democrats still
retain their wealth? Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway still owes the Feds
$80M in back taxes. If Buffett believes that he should pay more taxes, then he
should write a check for what he owes already. How much more taxes has Bill
Gates, the Kennedys, the Rockefellers, and other super wealthy Democrats paid?
Answer: 0.
Socialism in any of its
many forms is designed to keep middle class people from entering the upper echelon
of wealth. Prop 30 in California passed overwhelmingly in Marin County,
arguably the richest county in California. No doubt their tax lawyers and
accountants worked overtime to insulate their wealthy Liberal clients. No doubt
they helped write trust fund "kid" Jerry Brown's Prop 30 to amend the
California Constitution to pummel the middle class with oppressive taxes.
The ones hit hardest
will be small businesses. They will be kept from growing and the old line
corporations will be safe from competition. Coupled with the indolent,
parasitic 47%ers, once again those of us in the middle will be repeatedly raped
financially by this gang of thieves. The Democrats in the Senate have come up with
a budget for the first time in four years. Guess what? They are asking for more
money in taxes despite getting billions during the last fiscal standoff. When
is enough… well enough?
What is Success?
I think that it was
George Carlin that talked about 2d place (silver) as being the worst medal to
get in the Olympics. According to him, it's like you weren't good enough to win
the gold, but that 3d place (bronze) was okay. This shows a lack of perspective. What are
needed are context and an emotional dictionary defining terms like success or
victory. (I guess we can all look that up in our Funk & Wagnall's, (Apologies
to Rowan & Martin.)
Being second place in an
Olympic event may sound like you're "Second Hand Rose from Second
Avenue," but in the context of being second place in the huge universe of
world class athletes in your event, it's quite an accomplishment. A friend once
told me that as a public defender, he was always depressed because most of his
cases were losers. I told him that it depends on how you define winning. If you win a motion to suppress evidence, it's a
victory. If a judge rules favorably on your trial objection it's a victory. I
considered getting one of my clients work furlough, i.e., release to go to his
regular day job and incarceration at a work furlough facility at night instead
of going to the slam as a victory. He was glad to pay the cost of his stay at the
work furlough facility in lieu of losing his job if he went to jail.
Do yourself a favor and take it
easy on yourself.
From the Australian Tea Party...
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| ... but only in a dystopian socialist paradigm, i.e., "You didn't build that!" |
