The Beauty of Herman Cain's '999' Plan is in its simplicity.
In fact it's designed specifically for simplicity above all else. Because all three of the numbers are the same, potential Cain voters can get all the way to the end without forgetting any of them.
When asked about the plan, Texas Governor Rick Perry looked around for his Teleprompter, and--not finding it--responded that he'd have to get back to that question later.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Free Trade and Jobs
On consecutive days this week, the Senate voted to refuse to even debate President Obama’s jobs bill, then passed free-trade agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Columbia.
Hmm … Panama and Columbia. Ha!! When people say Congress isn’t interested in encouraging growth in American jobs, it just show how little they know about geography.
Hmm … Panama and Columbia. Ha!! When people say Congress isn’t interested in encouraging growth in American jobs, it just show how little they know about geography.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Shrinkage
Note to GOP: We're not going to shrink our way out of this!
But I guess you knew that already, eh?
I know there are higher priorities right now than fixing our country's economic ills – the most important being blaming them on Obama. And that all goes out the window if the economy gets fixed.
But I guess you knew that already, eh?
I know there are higher priorities right now than fixing our country's economic ills – the most important being blaming them on Obama. And that all goes out the window if the economy gets fixed.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Class Warfare
All the talk about ‘Class Warfare’ has gotten me thinking. I know all about class warfare, and the devastating effects it can have on people’s lives. On reflection, it seems clear that there’s nothing new going on. The Class War has been raging for quite some time now, and for all intents and purposes it is over. What seems just as clear is that the poor have won a decisive victory.
Just look around any of our major city streets – their patrols are everywhere! Holding signs on street corners, in food kitchens, crowding our emergency rooms, or under freeway overpasses – everywhere taxing passers-by for their hand-outs.
Free from the constraints of home ownership, or the scheduling restrictions of jobs, the poor quarter themselves overnight in the doorways of downtown stores, in alleys, or any other warm place– arrogantly relieving themselves wherever they choose.
Meanwhile the defeated rich desperately seek what shelter they can find in gated refugee communities, peeking furtively out from behind well-appointed window treatments. They live in fear of the weekly inspections by the special forces of the victorious poor known as ‘housekeepers’. Some must even submit to having their children indoctrinated by the elite Corps d’Au Pair.
When the rich dare to timidly emerge from these camps at all, They assemble as quickly as possible into protective groups known as ‘foursomes’ and rush headlong to the few places which offer them sanctuary – country clubs, exclusive restaurants, or even private islands. Even there, they are under the constant surveillance of the victors – never far from the prying eyes of caddies, waiters, and busboys.
It’s not clear how much more of this the rich can take, and it’s easy to see why these wretched souls fear another outbreak of class warfare. It can only make their current precarious situation even more hazardous.
Please, we must call a halt to this!
Haven’t the rich suffered enough?
Just look around any of our major city streets – their patrols are everywhere! Holding signs on street corners, in food kitchens, crowding our emergency rooms, or under freeway overpasses – everywhere taxing passers-by for their hand-outs.
Free from the constraints of home ownership, or the scheduling restrictions of jobs, the poor quarter themselves overnight in the doorways of downtown stores, in alleys, or any other warm place– arrogantly relieving themselves wherever they choose.
Meanwhile the defeated rich desperately seek what shelter they can find in gated refugee communities, peeking furtively out from behind well-appointed window treatments. They live in fear of the weekly inspections by the special forces of the victorious poor known as ‘housekeepers’. Some must even submit to having their children indoctrinated by the elite Corps d’Au Pair.
When the rich dare to timidly emerge from these camps at all, They assemble as quickly as possible into protective groups known as ‘foursomes’ and rush headlong to the few places which offer them sanctuary – country clubs, exclusive restaurants, or even private islands. Even there, they are under the constant surveillance of the victors – never far from the prying eyes of caddies, waiters, and busboys.
It’s not clear how much more of this the rich can take, and it’s easy to see why these wretched souls fear another outbreak of class warfare. It can only make their current precarious situation even more hazardous.
Please, we must call a halt to this!
Haven’t the rich suffered enough?
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Fair Taxation
In general, the greater one’s income, the greater the percentage of that income is derived from investments (dividends and capital gains)—which are taxed at less than half the rate as ordinary wages and salary—and the greater one’s ability to free up some of that income to help finance interest groups and lobbyists to maintain that differential.
It’s an obscenity that sitting-on-your-ass earnings are treated as more worthy than that earned by ‘sweat of the brow’.
And it’s an expression of idiocy when people parrot the spoon-fed line about ‘Class Warfare’ any time somebody suggests that this injustice be corrected.
It’s an obscenity that sitting-on-your-ass earnings are treated as more worthy than that earned by ‘sweat of the brow’.
And it’s an expression of idiocy when people parrot the spoon-fed line about ‘Class Warfare’ any time somebody suggests that this injustice be corrected.
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