Posted on 02/16/2011 7:47:31 AM PST by MarkLevinFan
"We cannot allow our children and our grandchildren to be burdened with 65-85% tax rates. We cannot allow them to be burdened with a massive government-run health care system that doesn’t care for them nor provide them with health.
This isn’t about the Republican leadership and Barack Obama. This is about you and me; the citizens of this country. We’re not on the sidelines. We’re right in the middle of the stadium. We own the damn stadium and the whole field. This government belongs to us.
They’re talking about our future, the future of children and grandchildren. They’re talking about our money and their money. Money yet earned. They don’t get to make these decisions without our input and without our consent. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to consent to impoverish my children and grandchildren because Barack Obama insists on it.
And I don’t care how the Republican leadership responds to it. I care how WE respond to it. The Tea Party activists. The conservatives. Individuals who don’t know what the hell they are. Who cares? From coast to coast. We will not sit idly by and allow this society to be destroyed for our children and grandchildren. Period! I don’t give a damn who the President of the United States is or what he demands.
One day, all of these politicians will be gone. They’re here temporarily. And yet their damage will be everlasting. It will be perpetual unless we, the American people, take a stand.
And we cannot and we must not leave it up to Washington DC to straighten it out, because they got us in this mess to begin with. So, if it’s Obama’s position that this budget is what it needs to be; which does not address a single entitlement; which is larded with massive tax increases; which is larded with one massive deficit spending plan after another; then shut the damn government down.
Because if we don’t, Obama will destroy the whole thing."
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"This is what he (Obama) wants. He wants you eating out of his hand. He and his ilk. That is the Leftists, the Statists.
They want you reliant on your energy, on your food, on your survival, on your health care. Reliant on THEM. This is why we must draw the line now and say, “screw you!”"
Follow the link to listen to the audio of Mark's lecture.
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I continue to think this is a losing frame of the argument. I think people hear this and they think that means the problems won't hit until later so don't worry about it.
You may be right, but do you have a better argument?
Yes, the American people are beginning to understand that it's time to say "screw you" to the federal government. Screw you and all your welfare programs. Shut down Social Security! Shut down your Medicare and Medicaid! Shut down your department of education!
We will all be better off without federal "help" with our lives.
It would take massive cooperation between citizens and businesses to say NO! No more filing IRS forms, and no more withholding.
We starve the beast, and put em out of business. They can't throw us all in jail.
The better argument is focused on what it means to YOU (not your kids, grandkids, great-grandkids.) And it’s based on the SHORT term. What’s impending. Because that’s all most people care about. They’re like grazing cows. They hear “grandkids” and think, it’s safe now, and go back to chewing cud.
That's easy to say, if you don't have a family to support.
Good thing our founders didn't think like that.
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Levin has totally misrepresented the situation.
We won’t shut down the government, the Democrats will.
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If he wants it shut down he should be encouraging the Dems to do so.
I’m surprised he’s letting his usually clear thinking be manipulated so badly!
Yep, its do or die time..I’d rather have dirt roads than sell our childrens future into slavery..
What the heck are you talking about?
The Democrats will gladly pass Obama’s horrendous agenda. The Democrats will gladly work with Republicans on “compromise.”
But, there is one and only one way to actually stop Obama. Republicans must shut the government down. Period. What are you missing?
You shouldn’t tell me what everyone must do. Do it yourself then tell me to follow your example.
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The Democrats will shut down the government to block the House budget.
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I’ve no time for anyone too foolish to know that by now.
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The Democrats will shut down the government to block the House budget.
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I’ve no time for anyone too foolish to know that by now.
Run along then...
Mark's monologue on this last night was brilliant. The pubbies should start burning down the media with every single argument they can think of as to why 0bama is wrong and they are right. They should not sut up until the people are on their side and the problem is solved. Nothing is more important than this right now.
But they won't, will they?
Our fiscal burdens aren't leading to astronomical taxes. They're leading to default. It may be an open default or it may be default disguised by high rates of inflation, but default is the only way out. Our government, at all levels, is about to come acropper. The whole system will have to be redesigned to be sustainable.
Levin, and others should stop talking about unrealistic tax rates in the distant future and start talking about the fact that we can't finance the federal government without monetizing the debt.
Another thing bothers me about focusing on the taxes children and grandchildren are likely to pay decades hence. That tactic implicitly accepts the leftist idea that government's income is infinitely elastic. Government doesn't raise what it wants, it raises what free people are willing to give it. You can take more only by shooting people, which is ultimately self-defeating because you can't terrorize people into productivity. Our level of taxation is already probably above the revenue maximizing point. Government can't increase its income to match its expenditures. It has to reduce its expenditures to match its income. Conservatives shouldn't be making any argument that helps obscure that reality.
if for no other reason than this: nothing else has worked
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