"It's time to be patriotic ... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut." Joe Biden on why the “rich” should pay more taxes as stated in an interview on Good Morning America, Thursday, September, 18, 2008.
Paying more taxes is the “patriotic” thing to do, really?
This is from the man we recently documented gave so little to charity over the past ten years, a miserly pittance of his annual income, never more than $400 a year while earning between $200-$300 thousand a year. The patriotic thing to do is pay more taxes. Excuse us, Mr. Biden, "For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48 However, it is each person’s responsibility to live up to his or her own personal responsibilities. Right Minded Fellow documented earlier this week Mr. Biden’s niggardly contributions to charity.
This issue goes right to the heart of the cynical depravity of the prominent liberals of today’s political scene. Patriotism is something a person feels within himself or herself. Patriotism is a part of a person’s character. Patriotism requires an individual makes choices and acts upon those choices. Patriotism is not just being quiet and smiling while the government fleeces an individual regardless of wealth of more of his or her capital.
Walk through any major hospital and see the names of wings in that hospital bearing the name of some “rich” person in the community who provided substantial funding for its construction -- THAT’S PATRIOTISM.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays in Meyerhoff Hall, financed largely be the contributions of the Meyerhoff family. THAT’S PATRIOTIC.
Having an idea or a dream, following it through starting a business, and creating jobs for others, THAT’S PATRIOTIC.
Investing in America wisely, its businesses, its charities, its public and private institutions of learning and health care. THAT’S PATRIOTIC
Shut up and let the government take more of your money, that’s BULLSHIT not PATRIOTISM.
The conservative free-enterprise position is that the government should provide the fair playing field where more people can invest more of their money in enterprises that benefit others and put more money in everyone’s pocket. It’s not the government’s job to decide who has to much, STEAL it and give it to whomever it feels according to its political ideology most deserves it. That’s not just BULLSHIT that SOCIALISM.
As the current financial crisis filters down to the primary causes and whose actions helped cause it, it will be revealed that politicians were looking out for their self-interests and not keeping the playing field clean so these kinds of financial atrocities are not possible.
How much will the press notice that the second largest recipient of funds from the troubled Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae was Barack Obama himself (second to Chris Dodd who is in the bovine fecal matter up to his chin in mortgage crisis favors)? While Barack Obama rants and raves about how horrible it is that John McCain’s staff has employed many (former) lobbyists, he’d better take a good look at his own house and where’s his money coming from like Tony Rezko for instance.
Paying more taxes is the “patriotic” thing to do, really?
This is from the man we recently documented gave so little to charity over the past ten years, a miserly pittance of his annual income, never more than $400 a year while earning between $200-$300 thousand a year. The patriotic thing to do is pay more taxes. Excuse us, Mr. Biden, "For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48 However, it is each person’s responsibility to live up to his or her own personal responsibilities. Right Minded Fellow documented earlier this week Mr. Biden’s niggardly contributions to charity.
This issue goes right to the heart of the cynical depravity of the prominent liberals of today’s political scene. Patriotism is something a person feels within himself or herself. Patriotism is a part of a person’s character. Patriotism requires an individual makes choices and acts upon those choices. Patriotism is not just being quiet and smiling while the government fleeces an individual regardless of wealth of more of his or her capital.
Walk through any major hospital and see the names of wings in that hospital bearing the name of some “rich” person in the community who provided substantial funding for its construction -- THAT’S PATRIOTISM.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays in Meyerhoff Hall, financed largely be the contributions of the Meyerhoff family. THAT’S PATRIOTIC.
Having an idea or a dream, following it through starting a business, and creating jobs for others, THAT’S PATRIOTIC.
Investing in America wisely, its businesses, its charities, its public and private institutions of learning and health care. THAT’S PATRIOTIC
Shut up and let the government take more of your money, that’s BULLSHIT not PATRIOTISM.
The conservative free-enterprise position is that the government should provide the fair playing field where more people can invest more of their money in enterprises that benefit others and put more money in everyone’s pocket. It’s not the government’s job to decide who has to much, STEAL it and give it to whomever it feels according to its political ideology most deserves it. That’s not just BULLSHIT that SOCIALISM.
As the current financial crisis filters down to the primary causes and whose actions helped cause it, it will be revealed that politicians were looking out for their self-interests and not keeping the playing field clean so these kinds of financial atrocities are not possible.
How much will the press notice that the second largest recipient of funds from the troubled Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae was Barack Obama himself (second to Chris Dodd who is in the bovine fecal matter up to his chin in mortgage crisis favors)? While Barack Obama rants and raves about how horrible it is that John McCain’s staff has employed many (former) lobbyists, he’d better take a good look at his own house and where’s his money coming from like Tony Rezko for instance.
When it comes to fixing up the economy, the Obama solution is to push the United States to the kind of socialism that all but destroyed the British economy until Maggie Thatcher liberated it. What a bitter irony! Increasingly, London not Wall Street is becoming the IPO center of the world as the American economy, high taxes on business, and over-regulation is forcing world class corporations to conduct their highest priority business anywhere but here.
Look at it this way, corporate America seeks to find the most intelligent and articulate talent available to represent its case in Washington through the lobbyists it hires. In a regulation-happy Capitol Hill where measures like Sarbanes-Oxley seek to prevent corporate corruption but instead burying companies in wasted productivity, higher overhead and costs, complying with the picayune details of this overreaching legislation, surely it is part of every public company’s responsibility to educate our elected leaders the real cost of their actions on the nation’s bottom line. Drive up the cost of doing business, companies are less profitable with less money to compensate workers, less profit to add value to their stock which is the backbone of pensions and 401K’s and in part helps contribute to the mess the economy has become today.
If John McCain wants a strong administration with top talent, who has the better pool of talent those who’ve survived corporate America or a federation of lawyers, “activists,” union officials, and other special interest advocates who comprise the Obama/Biden effort.
Sarah Palin put it nicely in her remarks about how politicians are addicted to OPM (yeah, read aloud it sounds like Opium), Other People’s Money. In Mr. Biden’s shameful interview, he continued to address the need of the governments need to “take” more money. Take more money.
There’s another fallacy of the Liberal Lie. Tax revenue is the people’s money, all the people’s money, to be spent prudently on that which benefits all the people.
While the Obama/Biden ticket and the Democratic leaders scream about oil company profits, they forbid those same companies from putting their money where it will benefit the American people the most, producing American oil, drilling off-shore, in Alaska, and other areas they have put off-limits. Contrast this to how Sarah Palin’s administration dealt with oil company profits in Alaska. In exchange for the state’s support to facilitate the industry functioning profitably in that state, the taxes levied against the oil companies go directly as rebates to Alaska’s citizens. The citizens share in the wealth generated by business in that state.
Look at it this way, corporate America seeks to find the most intelligent and articulate talent available to represent its case in Washington through the lobbyists it hires. In a regulation-happy Capitol Hill where measures like Sarbanes-Oxley seek to prevent corporate corruption but instead burying companies in wasted productivity, higher overhead and costs, complying with the picayune details of this overreaching legislation, surely it is part of every public company’s responsibility to educate our elected leaders the real cost of their actions on the nation’s bottom line. Drive up the cost of doing business, companies are less profitable with less money to compensate workers, less profit to add value to their stock which is the backbone of pensions and 401K’s and in part helps contribute to the mess the economy has become today.
If John McCain wants a strong administration with top talent, who has the better pool of talent those who’ve survived corporate America or a federation of lawyers, “activists,” union officials, and other special interest advocates who comprise the Obama/Biden effort.
Sarah Palin put it nicely in her remarks about how politicians are addicted to OPM (yeah, read aloud it sounds like Opium), Other People’s Money. In Mr. Biden’s shameful interview, he continued to address the need of the governments need to “take” more money. Take more money.
There’s another fallacy of the Liberal Lie. Tax revenue is the people’s money, all the people’s money, to be spent prudently on that which benefits all the people.
While the Obama/Biden ticket and the Democratic leaders scream about oil company profits, they forbid those same companies from putting their money where it will benefit the American people the most, producing American oil, drilling off-shore, in Alaska, and other areas they have put off-limits. Contrast this to how Sarah Palin’s administration dealt with oil company profits in Alaska. In exchange for the state’s support to facilitate the industry functioning profitably in that state, the taxes levied against the oil companies go directly as rebates to Alaska’s citizens. The citizens share in the wealth generated by business in that state.
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