Posted on 04/13/2012 5:23:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
In the end, free societies get the governments they deserve. So, if the American people wish to choose their chief executive on the basis of the "war on women," the Republican theocrats' confiscation of your contraceptives or whatever other mangy and emaciated rabbit the Great Magician produces from his threadbare topper, they are free to do so, and they will live with the consequences.
This week's bit of ham-handed misdirection was "the Buffett Rule," a not-so-disguised capital-gains tax hike designed to ensure that Warren Buffett pays as much tax as his secretary.
If the alleged Sage of Omaha is as exercised about this as his public effusions would suggest, I'd be in favor of repealing the prohibition on Bills of Attainder, and the old boy could sleep easy at night.
But instead every other American "millionaire" will be subject to the new rule — because, as President Obama said this week, it "will help us close our deficit."
Wow! Who knew it was that easy?
A-hem. According to the Congressional Budget Office (the same nonpartisan bean-counters who project that on Obama's current spending proposals the entire U.S. economy will cease to exist in 2027) Obama's Buffett Rule will raise — stand well back — $3.2 billion per year. Or what the United States government currently borrows every 17 hours.
So in 514 years it will have raised enough additional revenue to pay off the 2011 federal budget deficit. If you want to mark it on your calendar, 514 years is the year 2526. There's a sporting chance Joe Biden will have retired from public life by then, but other than that I'm not making any bets.
Let's go back to that presidential sound bite: "It will help us close our deficit."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Osama Obama has no other *option*.He knows it...the Republican nominee will know it...your typical 10 year old knows it.Scorched earth...a billion dollars’ worth...coming soon to TVs,radios,newspapers.computers and inner city riots near you.
Obama doesn’t need a plan ,baby ,it’s in the bag
Pride, envy, covetousness ... he'll appeal to all of man's baser instincts to get his brass ring...
I agree that he knows it. I'd give quite a lot to see the "Obama" team's internal numbers.
"Scorched earth...a billion dollars’ worth...coming soon to TVs,radios,newspapers.computers and inner city riots near you."
You forgot to include the unrest that will erupt when George Zimmerman is (likely) acquitted, SCOTUS repudiates Obama"care" and, quite possibly, another engineered run on the markets/banks goes down.
We're not even halfway through April 2012. Anything, and I mean literally ANYTHING can happen between now and January 2013. Nothing at all is beyond these Marxist scumbags in their quest to attain, and retain power. Nothing at all.
Look what the radical left did for Chicago and Cook County. That’s Obama’s vision for America.
Steyn pyng!
This guy in the White House is hilarious. Kinda reminds me of “Professor” Irwin Corey.
If you wanted to destroy America, and there are millions out there who want to, you could attack the country military like Pearl Harbor
OR
You could buy a reality show host type empty suit and let him play liberal. Costs? Less than a $Billion any country (or group of countries) could destroy America.
Who might these "countries be" that own Obama? You might note that things are going quite well if you are a Muslim trying to take over the world:
Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood
Libya, attacked illegally, going to Sharia law nutcases
Iraq: US forces removed, terrorists are now setting up to control that country.
Etc: Obama just unlucky or Stupid?
If Obama was a Muslim Terrorist, he would do nothing differently than he has done already. Once he gets re-elected, Hussein will remove all doubt. Until then, it's race riots and economic calamity, coming your way.
Looking at it another way, Hussein could NOT be this stupid or incompetent; he is doing everything on purpose for the Muslim endgame.
Warren Buffett, hypocrite
NY Post | August 29, 2011
This one’s truly, uh ... rich: Billionaire Warren Buffett says folks like him should have to pay more taxes — but it turns out his firm, Berkshire Hathaway, hasn’t paid what it’s already owed for years.
That’s right: As Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson notes, the company openly admits that it owes back taxes since as long ago as 2002.
“We anticipate that we will resolve all adjustments proposed by the US Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) for the 2002 through 2004 tax years ... within the next 12 months,” the firm’s annual report says.
It also cites outstanding tax issues for 2005 through 2009.
Obvious question: If Buffett really thinks he and his “mega-rich friends” should pay higher taxes, why doesn’t his firm fork over what it already owes under current rates?
Likely answer: He cares more about shilling for President Obama — who’s practically made socking “millionaires and billionaires” his re-election theme song — than about kicking in more himself.
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Mark Steyn ping.
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Thanks for the ping Slings and Arrows.
Obama’s distorted sydrome of what a daddy is: I want to be the money brat in the stead of the current money brat, so all my problems be solved with money...
There, that is the level of embassy intelligence of this “man”-child.
Obama’s distorted sydrome of what a daddy is: I want to be the money brat in the stead of the current money brat, so all my problems be solved with money...
There, that is the level of embassy intelligence of this “man”-child.
... and to think he tries to impress Christians with his “I suffer too” false piety and obvious greed and death worship...
Solzhenitsyn: "In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion. Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as 'We include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology.' The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.
"Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive."
Does anyone doubt that mandates, taxation and regulation are means of the "coercion" Solzhenitsyn so eloquently describes?
Further, does anyone doubt that recent attempts by the President to link the teachings of Jesus to his coercive policies, as he did at the National Prayer Breakfast, are not consistent with what Solzhenitsyn described as "Communist propaganda" in the above-quoted interview?
Indeed, many forget to mention that Hitler’s favorite religion if there was to choose would be Islam.
Obama Has No Real Plan Other Than Class Warfare
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Certainly he does! Besides class warfare, he has:
Race warfare
Gender warfare
Generational warfare
Religious warfare
Environmental warfare
Energy warfare
Educational warfare
See, he has all kinds of options, not just one!
It also encourages covetousness. Someone who has been conditioned to be covetous may think he is miserable because he isn't as wealthy as others, but in reality the lack of wealth has nothing to do with causing the person's misery (though it may well be an effect). Covetousness causes misery, and while it may create a desire for wealth to quench it, no amount of wealth will satiate it.
Apparently some of his advisors are assuring him the “populist” track works.
I think Steyn’s advice here is brilliant:
“... the only slogan the Republicans need this fall: What’s your plan?
And all you hear are crickets chirping.”
“Obama Has No Real Plan Other Than Class Warfare”
Of course, which is why the Federalites had Hillary concede in the arranged meeting at Feinstein’s house.
And it’s the reason the Federalites, have attempted to covertly shove Mandate-Mitt up, to keep their cover.
And with their cover of Mandate-Mitt, don’t be surprised to see VAT, more EPA shakedowns, and bureau backed Federal shakedowns, bank cover.
Mandate-Mitt, he’s their man.
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