Posted on 11/28/2012 5:21:43 PM PST by shove_it
Full Headline = Sign of National Resentment for the American Way of Life: Kristof Angry About Private Generators During Sandy
RUSH: Now, over the weekend, a columnist in the New York Times by the name of Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece. He's all upset about the electrical grid failing in the Northeast during Hurricane Sandy. But that's not what made him mad. What made him mad was the reliance that some people had on private generators. He was upset about that, that some people had them and other people didn't. Here's the short version, according to David French at National Review.
This is the short version of Kristof's piece: "Low tax rates on the rich, plus failure to deal with climate change, equals decaying infrastructure, increasing inequality, and wealthy opt-outs from public services," and public utilities. And they're able to go get their own generators, and this is not fair, that some should have generators and others shouldn't. And it's all because of climate change and all because the rich and income inequality that some people had private generators and others didn't. He made a whole column about this!
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RUSH: I'm not kidding. This guy Nicholas Kristof, this is mainstream liberal opinion at the New York Times, a piece over the weekend upset about the electrical grid being insufficient, failing, being knocked out of power. Not just during Hurricane Sandy, but primarily then, but any other time it goes down, it's not fair that some people aren't affected by it. They're able to go out and own private home generators to get through the outage while other people are unable to. And he claims that the reason that this is possible is that tax rates on the rich have been too low, which means the rich have too much disposable income, and with that disposable income they're able to go out and buy private generators that they really shouldn't be entitled to have. It's not fair.
Now, as I go through all this, keep in mind based on the election results, the American people agree with this. The American people signed on for this. The American people, maybe by a couple, three million votes, whatever it was, 51 to 48%, the American people agree with this. You don't get points for getting close. You don't get points for almost winning. You don't get points for losing, but not by a landslide. You'd be amazed. The people of California voted to increase their own taxes. They voted to raise taxes on themselves. The people of California are voting for what is happening there. And now we can say the people of this country are voting for what's happening here.
So when Kristof says low taxes on the rich are to be opposed because they are able to go out and buy things like private home generators so that they don't feel the electrical grid outage, so it means we have to raise taxes and also the grid failed because we're not doing enough on global warming. We're not raising taxes enough to deal with global warming. We have failed to deal with climate change. We don't have high enough taxes on the rich, and that means that our infrastructure is decaying, that there is a greater inequality of income among the people, and the real insult is that the wealthy are then able to opt out from public services.
Now, in the old days, not too long ago, I remember where this is the kind of thing that people aspired to. People aspired to be successful, to earn enough money to provide themselves an increasing standard of living, and this provided motivation and inspiration for others to follow. Now, that's not the way it is in America anymore and we're going to have come to understand that. Success is not inspirational. Success is not motivational. Success makes you a target. Success makes you an enemy. Success means that you aren't playing fair. And I'm not exaggerating.
At some point we're gonna have to understand what's happened here. It's not the Latino vote that caused us to lose the election, and it's not the single women under 30 vote, and it's not all these other demographic things that resulted in Romney and us, the Republicans, losing the presidential race. Those are convenient excuses that are easy for the Republican Party to seem to address, which will not matter in the long run. We are losing the American way of life. The American way of life is now targeted. The old standard American way of life is now seen as the big problem, because not everybody can share in it, not everybody has a fair shot at it, not everybody will ever be able to participate in it fully, and so it's unworthy, unjust, and should no longer be allowed.
And that's where the people of this country are. You can sit there and tell me, "No, Rush, no." It's like Bill Parcells always says about an NFL team, "You are what your record is." If you're 4-7, you are 4-7. You're not a maybe, you know, 10-4. You're 4-7, you're 4-7. Your record is what you are. The country is what it is. The guy running for reelection made no bones about what he intends to do, and he certainly didn't hide what he intends to do for four years in the big picture. He got reelected. Certain things, folks, there is a deep resentment.
we bought our first generator back when we were still struggling financially.
We might be considered “rich” by now - but only by Obama.
It has been tough keeping up with heating oil,gas prices, and medical expenses - buy hey, rich is whatever they say it is.
Anyways...some folks go off and get a nice big flat screen. Some get fancy phones.
We went and got a generator that cost less than many video game systems.
I am always amazed at how incredibly stupid these “well respected” economists and columnists are.
When the “shift” happens and the gubmin checks stop comin’ in da mail,
everyone that has ANYTHING will be “the rich” and will be to blame for the stoppage of the freebies.
Sorry. This is far more than Liberalism. It is full blown Socialism. Everyone should have a generator or else none should? Sheesh. Let me guess....Kristof doesn't own a generator and got stiffed when he went to get one at Home Depot when Sandy was approaching.
We are here in Florida, the Hurricane Capital of the Nation. You can find gensets at the pawn shops for crissake.
As far as Kristoff is concerned, she is only reading the DNC talking points of the day. It’s just a job to her.
The “grasshopper vs. ant” analogy is a bullseye. The useless eaters outnumber the producers, and no nation so dedicated can long endure.
Kart, you mentioned three types of “preppers”: the Justified Looters, the Denier-cum-Locusts, and the It’s God’s Will people.
But there’s a fourth, and they’re more prevalent than we care to admit: the Uber-Patriot Militia Prepper. With few exceptions, they are over-sixty; overweight; possibly a ‘Nam vet who drove the Sergeant-Major’s jeep for two years but claims he was SpecOps-Ranger-Airborne-Delta-SEAL; equates the size of his gun to the size of his... gun; and sit on the front stoop of their patriot bunker in the mountains (which is nothing more than a Lowe’s toolshed in their suburban backyard) and loudly proclaim they are Lexington Green (when in reality they will be Ruby Ridge 2.0)...
The ants are heavily armed and we are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore.
Solar panels don’t work very well during storms and are frequently destroyed by them. Also, they don’t work at all at night.
Generators work great 24/7 as long as there is fuel.
Draw your own conclusion, but I think they guy is just evil, grasping, ideologue.
That sentence was poorly constructed. I should have said, “In the rural villages, no one has more than another.”
Certainly, those in power and their friends are wealthy. That's the way communism works. Hussein would have it that way - he would live in luxury and so would his friends, but the populace, in the end, the way he wants it, would be the serfs with all having the same thing, not more than someone else.
Macao is an entry point into mainland China and they cater to tourists, hence the casinos. They also have a government building/restaurant for tourists and we were taken there to eat. Then, there was a government shopping building for tourists. We were watched by men in that building so they knew what we bought. We were not allowed to roam on our own.
My conclusion is that this guy is totally self-contradictory.
“Solar panels don’t work very well during storms and are frequently destroyed by them. Also, they don’t work at all at night.”
Though the same thing when I heard this guy talking about the “smart grid”, earlier this year, with every home having its own personal solar power source. Sounds smart, until you realize how fragile the photovoltaics are. Then I’m thinking, yeah, it’s not much better than the grid as is in the case of an emergency event.
I agree. It truly is rediculous, and it’s also rediculous the kinds of priorities some people have in terms of what they buy with their money. Frankly, I’m surprised at how many people I see where they have all these spanking new electronic toys, yet the maintenance on their own homes is crap. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
In general, properly mounted solar panels strengthen the roof and do not get blown off unless the storm is strong enough to take the entire roof. Other than that, I agree that the ongoing class envy is absurd. I'm proud of my neighbors with generators, not jealous.
That's a lot of ammo, not for practice but if needed in an emergency. I hope you won't have to put much of it to use in any crisis situation, but I'm glad you have it just in case. In contrast, I imagine Kristof will be complaining when the time comes that some people are able to go get their own 12 ga ammo and others aren't, and this is not fair, that some should have buckshot and others don't. And it's all because you're rich and have too much disposable income, and with that disposable income you're able to go out and buy private ammo that you really shouldn't be entitled to have. It's not fair.
Yep. That's what happened to my son's friend who owns a gun shop and shooting range in Metairie. It wasn't even in New Orleans but in the Greater NO area. We were flooded for a couple of days but that was because they turned our pumping stations off and left. But, it was after that time when they came in a confiscated ALL his guns. He eventually got them back but lost time and revenue in the meantime. We live in a sick, greedy, perverted country these days. The government is out of control in all areas.
I shall be only too happy to share my ammunition with them.
One round at a time.
But then again, I lost all my ammo in a tragic house fire. Is that fair, I ask you?
“Farm confiscation is in the plan. Coming very soon, 2013.”
Followed by the elimination of all private property.
I wasn’t commenting so much on what you said... I was just pointing out how communists live and how the serfs under them live. It was the same way in the Soviet Union. No problemo.
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NBC floated this years ago. A hard winter freeze in the mid-West and the correspondant throws out “...a lucky few have generators.” This was when Lauer was bitching about paying $600 for his iPhone.
This is why when the SHTF and word gets out you were a prepper....you will need either every bit of ammo or an uparmored vehical to bug out.
It is barely possible to do this, in some areas, with a peculiar type of housing.
I’m as entranced with “earthship” homes as Mr. Toad was with automobiles. The thing is part underground and heavily insulated. It is sited so that a large bay window faces the sun during winter, but it doesn’t get nearly as much sun in to house during warmer parts of the year. Skylights help with airflow to cool the house. No A/C necessary, only limited heating.
They can be wind or solar powered - but they have enormous stacks of batteries for night time and when power otherwise isn’t being produced. Their major appliances (stoves, Fridges) are not electric powered. (Dunno what the do for laundry...) But really smart owners also have back up generators.
This house is, by no means, a standard type of house. And it seems to work best in places like New Mexico...
So it CAN be done. If you live some place where the sun almost always shines, or the wind almost always blows, and you’re building your own house, consider an earthship and live off the grid. Otherwise, it is pretty much impossible and this guy is full of it.
Same here. Small rural town, one of the poorest in our state, lots of hills, and a fair amount of electrical outages due to storms, tornadoes, or old equipment.
People consider it a necessity to have a four wheel drive, wood stove/fireplace and/or generator.
We bought ours when my Dad lived with us, and he was on oxygen 24/7. Before that, we got by with the fireplace and candles and oil lamps, and sterno stove.
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