[Vision2020] Obama cancels interview with a Free (not in the tank) Press

Mon Oct 27 12:25:42 PDT 2008

Yep, we now have the social safety net afforded by taxes being equated not only with theft and innate anti-Godliness, but now sociopathy . . . by church folks.  Christians, even.

Strange days, indeed.

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/

> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:11:36 -0800
> From: no.weatherman at gmail.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Obama cancels interview with a Free (not in the	tank) Press
> 
> Dave:
> 
> I'll make this simple because I do not want to tax your few remaining
> brains cells too much
> 
> You have to establish the boundaries of government, which includes
> their authority to tax, before you declare a free for all.
> 
> Paul feels perfectly comfortable when the government takes from others
> who are wealthier than he is but I have sneaking suspicion that his
> comfort zone would soon be violated if the state came knocking on his
> door.
> 
> As for you, you probably feel morally superior to me because of the
> overwhelming generosity you display with other people's money. As for
> sociopaths, maybe you should consider your lack of compunction when it
> comes to stealing from others.
> 
> I would empathize with you but I'm afraid that's a moral trait I desire.
> 
> 
> On 10/27/08, Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com> wrote:
> > It is entirely obvious that no clue is totally devoid of empathy.
> >  Therefore, of course, a sociopath.
> >
> >  Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >  Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> >  > Are you really trying to equate a non-linear tax model as "socialism"?
> >  > That's a stretch, in my opinion.  Everyone is still paying taxes, except
> >  > for the very poorest of us.  The percentages just change.
> >  >
> >  > I also don't like the implication that the rich "earned it and deserve
> >  > it".  That would imply that the poor and the middle class did not earn
> >  > it or deserve it.  That, fundamentally, is why I can't stand the
> >  > position you are taking.  You appear to think that just because you've
> >  > been lucky (yes, lucky) enough to make good money, you deserve it more
> >  > than the next guy.  There are just as many hard-working poor and middle
> >  > class people as there are hard-working privileged people, if not more.
> >  >
> >  > As for the fear that Obama will raise taxes for everyone eventually,
> >  > well, someone has to take responsibility and pay back the enormous debt
> >  > that the current administration has heaped on us, don' t you think?
> >  > Especially if we intend to continue the nationalizing of banks that the
> >  > current administration has started.
> >  >
> >  > Paul
> >  >
> >  > No Weatherman wrote:
> >  >
> >  >>>  Actually, it's called paying a portion of what you make to a central pool
> >  >>> which will be used to take care of things no one person wants to take care
> >  >>> of.  Things like roads, military defense, social security, research,
> >  >>> education, health care, the national debt, disaster relief, veteran's
> >  >>> benefits, and the occasional crackhead and/or welfare queen that gets away
> >  >>> with gaming the system.
> >  >>>
> >  >>>
> >  >> You need to distinguish between tax-based necessities and tax-based
> >  >> socialism. Crackheads and welfare queens are not in the same category
> >  >> as roads, defense, vet's benefits, etc.
> >  >>
> >  >>
> >  >>
> >  >>>  The "minority" has been getting away with murder for longer than you or I
> >  >>> have been around.  They've been sipping mai-tais in Hawaii and complaining
> >  >>> that their new Beemer has a scratch on the fender.  They don't arouse all
> >  >>> that much pity from me.  They can survive a tax hike far more easily than
> >  >>> the other 95% of us can.
> >  >>>
> >  >>>
> >  >> Strawman notwithstanding, if they earned it they deserve it.
> >  >>
> >  >> And the moment you arbitrarily draw the line at Hawaiian vacations and
> >  >> Beemers, you've invited the Obamas of the world (socialists) to move
> >  >> that line anywhere they want.
> >  >>
> >  >> Do you know where they want to move it?
> >  >>
> >  >> Last I heard Obama floated $250,000 and you and I both know that's not
> >  >> low enough to finance his vision.
> >  >>
> >  >> It doesn't matter, though, because you've already given him permission
> >  >> to take other people's money so he can redistribute it to the
> >  >> crackheads.
> >  >>
> >  >> So he'll nudge it down to $200,000. Then $150,000. Then $100,000. And
> >  >> before you know it, somewhere in there he found our bracket. He'll
> >  >> find Ms. Lund's bracket. He'll find Ms. Mix's bracket. He'll find Mr.
> >  >> London's bracket. He'll find Mr. Hansen's rubber doll's bracket.
> >  >>
> >  >> Once you give him permission to redistribute wealth, it won't stop at $250,000.
> >  >>
> >  >> Obama doesn't want "rich" people's money. He wants everyone's money.
> >  >> He's a Farraking Communist.
> >  >>
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