Mike:
I like it here too. And I mean no disrespect. I think you can really learn a bit if you do take the time to look up Thomas Sowell and read up on capitalism and socialism.
Obama has also proven many things in his 140-day Senatorial career and current Presidential campaign. . . but lets not go there.
Like you, I love it here. I am a citizen of what IS now and will continue to be the greatest country in the world, God willing. I have not served in the military, but had my draft number come up, I would have done so to the best of my ability. I thank you and thank every American serving in the military, past and present.
I congratulate and feel proud for any athlete, actor, CEO or any other honest American who works hard, succeeds and becomes wealthy doing so. Their success almost certainly has nothing to do with any other’s lack of wealth or poverty. Quite the contrary: it is that top tier, the 5% of wealthiest Americans who carry over 50% of America’s tax burden and provide the lion’s share of funding for social services to the underprivileged in this country and others. God knows, America need some more of them.
Wealth is good, and there should be more incentive earn and keep what you earn, not the disincentive of higher taxes to provide entitlements and handouts to those on the government dole. So, I will gladly vote for any politician who chooses to pander to business, particularly those providing essential services and commodities like energy and oil, instead of those who pander to those on the government dole. But if I understand the definition of pander, what government does for my business and, I suspect, ever other business, large or small, brings to mind a much different verb than pander.
PS: If Thomas Sowell is too far to the right for your taste, you might read another author with both literary and economic expertise: P. J. O'Rourke's "Eat the Rich"
It’s easy to be generous with someone else’s money, the American taxpayer’s money. This escalating scheme of unfettered tax and spend politics will surely hamstring businesses, cripple the economy, cost American's their jobs,and ultimately bankrupt this country, If America is going in the wrong direction and needs a change, then in my opinion, the change need to be a hard turn to the right, not to the left. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan taught me this lesson the hard way, back in the 1980's.
And pardon me if I mistake socialist rhetoric for socialism. Just my capitalistic faux pas. Sorry.
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