Your column has too much common sense. Until those who have wealth and/ or high income realize that it is in their interest to invest more of their money into the common good, then they will forever fight to keep every nickel that they make. Obama was correct is saying "You didn't build that". Government must invest in the economy so that the private sector can flourish. The captains of Industry probably know this fact but want to stuff money away and live their extravagant life styles in a bizarre game of entitlement. Just because you are smart or lucky or born on third base doesn't mean you neglect your responsibilities to the common good.
Which reminds me, I haven't stared my generator in awhile. Time to run it and "pollute" some more to piss off the NYT readers.
I hike along the border areas of NY/NJ, where a lot of iron mining, forging and farming was done. Many of the present roads there were built during the New Deal; before that, those very same captains of industry built the roads, dams, and railways necessary to accomplish their goals.
They DID build that (with no government help at all); in fact there was almost no government to speak of. If you visit these areas today, they still have little government.
“Just because you are smart or lucky or born on third base doesn’t mean you neglect your responsibilities to the common good.”
At this point the whole thrust of the lib agenda is to destroy the advantage that comes from being born into a two-parent family with a strong work ethic and the minimum intelligence required to learn fluent English. In fact, they are driving such families to extinction with their policies (which is fine with them).
Only people who are too stupid or too lazy to get their own have to resort to retarded arguments like this, and then add insult to injury by cloaking their stupidity and laziness in concern for the “common good”. I too would like this genius to address the unions, Congress, and other “more equal than the other animals” who have exempted themselves from Obamacare. The only way to be truly free anymore in this country is to live as simply as possible, asking as close to nothing as possible from the government, and thereby keeping them as far away as possible from your and your family’s lives. There’s no other way now. And especially keep the government’s tentacles off your children.