“I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign,” Barack Obama assured the public Monday - but why such an ironclad rule? Surely not because everyone is in fact a patriot.
Why? Because Barak knows it’s a loser for him, and a pure winner for McCain. When will Barak through Wesley Clarke under the bus?
From the page: “BMI took a novel approach. It compared the economic-news coverage by the New York Times Wall Street Journal and Washington Post from Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 1929 around the time of the stock market crash with the coverage by ABC CBS and NBC from March 13 to 19 of this year. “The difference between how the 1929 and 2008 media handled a crisis was profound — with modern journalists hyping every event.” Today s coverage is much more alarmist. In 2008 few reporters pointed out “the differences between today s economy and the nation s darkest economic years or bothered to note that America is not in a depression.”"
The Tax Foundation has an article regarding the Marxist presidential candidate and his desire to redistribute wealth…
In it they ask:
Should the tax system be used as a means of redistributing income or simply as a neutral mechanism for raising money for government services? Can a tax system premised on redistribution also be compatible with economic growth?
As I’ve said earlier, only if it’s applied to those whom want to project their tax plan on others.
Please, apply the fair tax to me!
Seems like a lot of Americans live in the times of old, where self-reliance and hard work made up the backbone of the country, instead of Boondoggle Bailouts put forward by lobbyist-funded senators.
The government wants to be like the US parent of today; forever insulating their children from any harm, not knowing that when these children become adults, they’ll never have had to compete for anything, and will be totally pwned by a third-world immigrant, who knows what its like to have to compete just to live.
So, even from Gallup (not the most center of polling agencies) show that Americans Oppose Income Redistribution to fix the economy. It’s not even close. 84% to 13%. So, Senator Dodd, please try to tell us that your Countrywide Mortgage bail-out bill is about bailing out someone other than your VIP friend.
A quite liberal friend was complaining to me about a “Soft Filibuster” the Republicans in the Senate Judicial committee were using to stop testimony about interrogation techniques. I explained to him that it was basically business as usual, and that the Democrats did the same types of things when they were the minority, and are doing the same types of things now that they are the majority.
Reading about my former home state and the sorry affairs their senators have become, I was not surprised to read about the junior senator from Virginia and his politics as usual. Can’t say that Mr. Webb makes me want to move back, but my current slate of senators in New Jersey are about as unprincipled.
…Something they continuously ignore lately.
So it’s time for a quick refresher: Richard Nixon’s early-1970s price controls were a disaster.
Here, an article berating a Republican president (Not that the Democrat that followed did any better), and that the price controls caused the problem, and did not contribute at all to the solution.
I’m of the opinion that US taxes should be applied in a more punitive fashion.
For example, Allen Neuharth, founder of USA Today, states his approval of setting high taxes on those who support the war as to have them pay for it.
I’m thinking of a better way Allen, how about since you want to set taxes on other folks, that those taxes instead be applied only to you, retroactively, since you’ve “retired”. I’m sure the government coffers would like an extra 30-35% of your income.
Often there is a blanket assumption that European countries are just so much more sophisticated than American “cowboys.” But there is incredibly little interest in the track record of those European sophisticates whom we are supposed to consult about our own national interests– including, in an age when terrorists may acquire nuclear weapons, our national survival.
In all these cases, how is the the doctrine working out? The term “fiasco” comes to mind. Corn is being fed to cars while hungry people riot for food. Some six years after 9/11 most Americans have satisfied themselves with a cartoonishly shallow understanding of Islam and never actually get to know any Muslims. There has been a thorough unwillingness to even entertain the idea of the U.S. bombing Iran’s nuclear sites. And liberal politicians and members of the media who scream “neoimperialism!” currently put the fragile gains of the troop surge at risk. If only people could figure out when to dither and when to act.
Scalia once again demonstrates that he is, probably without question, the most distinguished and vibrant public intellectual in the United States.