Biden: 'Yes, We Do' Want to Raise Taxes By a Trillion Dollars

The Weekly Standard ^ | October 4, 2012 | Daniel Halper

[Vanders9]

He strikes me as the kind of person who talks to himself quite a lot.

[Vanders9]

Of course people are applauding. That's why this kind of thing works. Biden is acknowledging there is a problem, and that it is a serious one (such a thing is so obviously true he cannot realistically say otherwise) but he reassures his followers that it is "someone else's fault". That gets people out of feeling guilty, which people like a lot. It further follows that "someone else" has the responsibility of fixing the problem. That gets people out of having to do anything. All in all, a very attractive message. It taps directly into envy, greed and sloth, all of which the average Human Being has in considerable abundance.

The truth is that the current economic problem is of such a scale that even if this mythical bunch of wealth-hoarding "others" existed taking all of their money wouldn't cover the yearly deficit, never mind touch the existing debt. We are all of us going to take a lot of pain before this all works out (if it ever does).

[MP5]

Exactly! When they played the soundbite on Fox yesterday, Charles Krauthammer said “How much are we paying this guy? Whatever it is, it’s not enough” Haha, I loved it!