"The Democrats know what needs to be done. Again, we're working to try to push this agenda forward. The other day the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. (Laughter.) I want to take those profits and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to find alternative smart energy, alternatives and technologies that will begin to actually move us toward the direction of independence! (Cheers, applause.)
--Hillary Clinton,
Speaking before the Democratic National Committee, Feb 2, 2007
That's right! The room, filled with Democrats, applauded Hillary's desire to steal from a private company; ie, 'the rich'. Why!? BECAUSE THEY MADE TOO MUCH MONEY! Oh, the cause is noble! Yes, it is! Why, everyone APPLAUDED after all. That must make it right!
Oh, those evil rich! How dare they become successful through hard work and investment while so many of this nations' poor can't manage to save a dime, let alone rub two nickles together. Yes... the poor, with their flat-screen TV's, X-Box's, $1,000 Rims on their ghetto rides...
There are, of course, the genuinely poor: the homeless, the destitute; living under bridges and overpasses, having to depend on the kindness of motorists who kindly discard their aluminum cans on the highway's verge. But Liberals don't really care about 'these poor'... they don't typically vote.
This is who Liberals are.
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You know what? I quit.
God have mercy on your sad, angry soul. Look to friends like Ben, he seems like a good guy, spend time with him.
And please don't condemn Jesus and his family because, My Word!, what they had to say about the rich.
I'd hope you'd give them a bit more grace than you are those you consider "liberal."
The Lord has brought down rulers from their thrones
but has lifted up the humble.
God has filled the hungry with good things
but has sent the rich away empty.
-Mary, Mother of Jesus
Luke 1:52-53
But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
-Jesus
Luke 6:24
Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?
...Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you.
-James
The tobacco companies were reduced through court settlements because people thought they were a danger to public health and well being.
The telephone companies were broken by federal regulators because it was felt they stifled innovation.
The railroad barons were reduced through congressional action because they promoted unfair working conditions.
It seems to me responsible to say that part of this new environmental movement may be funded by the very companies that contributed so much to the current sad state.
Regulations that require companies to provide health care to their employees. Regulations that keep companies from selling dangerous and unacceptable products to just any customer.
I distinctly remember an argument you and I had a year or so ago, wherein you claimed the rich should be made to pay more in taxes because they can afford to pay more. This is socialist class-warfare. The Democrats applauded her... They applauded theft of property. If you want to reduce the influence of American Oil Companies, pump more money into incentives for research and development of new technologies. Don't steal from the energy providers who will in turn pass their loss off onto the consumer. It's not only wrong, it's irresponsible.
Since when was it the mission of America to tell it's people just how much they can earn? That's not why the Revolution was fought-- "Taxation Without Representation" immediately stands out... America is about liberty. Your vision of an American Utopia is, in reality, a Communistic nightmare; and it's failed every time and every where it's been tried.
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On another note: It's about time! I was beginning to think Dan didn't know when to quit!
Words have meanings. When you continually misrepresent the way things are, well, it represents something about you.
But I'm quitting pointing it out. Your misrepresentations can sink or float on their own.
Just shame on you for continuing to do it.
I'm not quitting dialog with you, not until you tell me to go away. Dialog is important when a nation or world is as divided as we seem to be.
Remember when you said we should round up all the Palestinians and gass them? Or when you talked of nuking Mecca? Oh yeah there was that great screed a few weeks ago where you said most of America were myrmidons, and imbecciles. Should I take by these comments that you have nothing but contempt and hatred for the greatest majority of humanity?
Ben, I never said "Gas the Palestinians" nor did I use the word "Imbecile". I did say "Nuke Mecca" and call most Americans "Myrmidons".
However, as discussed in an earlier thread most of this country's oil use is in manufacturing. There are right now no incentives or disincentives for those sectors to begin finding alternative processes. Taxes and levies on oil companies would be passed on to manufacturing sectors and will encourage those new scientific breakthroughs. It will also generate revenue which can be used to cleanup already damaged parts of the environment.
One hopes the result would be a cleaner, better stewarded world.
And now that I've done it, blogger allows my comment. Go figure.
To limit government to only being able to take some of this money when is passes from individual to business, or employer to employee is silly. It's like saying that the only correct way to harvest water for municipal use is to catch it as precipitation. No siphoning from rivers. No pumping from aquifers.
Personally, I'm in favor of scrapping the entire IRS in favor of the FairTax, reintroduced this legislative session with even more co-sponsors and this time with bi-partisan support.
Now, before any of you liberal yahoos start screaming about a 30-32% tax rate, let it be known I'll reject any such comments because the claim is not only unfounded, but it displays a genuine lack of understanding and knowledge of the the Fair Tax. Don't waste your time... or mine. I only mention it as an aside.