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No, unfortunately, no kidding here. The only real good point is that in the ever evident writing of the article of the writer’s political leanings (hack if you will) is that we are able to get him to admit up front that we are neither in a recession currently (though on the way to it I am sure) or in anything similar to the Great Depression. After this, the logic begins to dwindle as the politics takes over.
As is the case when politics gets in the way of a topic that one is supposed to be discussing, logic starts to fade and rambling begins. We get a fairly good idea that the author’s answer to the problem is that we need more government oversight to fix the problems that he blames on the same government he thinks will solve the problem, uh, what?
“Continue to ignore growing income inequality and govern the United States for the benefit of the rich at the expense of the many.” Wait didn’t I see that in the Communist Manifesto or was that the democrat talking point of the day? I am sure they are one in the same. While the article is relatively devoid of any solutions, it does spend gobs of time on this issue. It even provides a statistic noting how the top 1% of Americans are earning over a fifth of the income.
Of course this is where the stats stop. He doesn’t bother to provide us with any idea of how the rest of the country is fairing in terms of wealth nor does he provide any figures like how the top 1% pay 39% of all taxes. No, his idea is to end all the tax cuts (he likes to call them, like all good liberals do, the “Bush tax cuts” but I like to refer to them as our tax cuts, the people) because the tax cuts “all went to the rich”. Hmm, someone is drinking too much kool-aid or just another hack looking to deceive the American people. I for one really enjoy my extra money a year or my own money as I think of it. Of course his idea never makes any sense in the face of the fact that the tax cuts helped stem off a recession in the first place (something he fails to mention), that raising taxes never helps the economy (in 1980 the top 1% only paid 19% of the taxes. Hey wasn’t that just 39% , hmmm), that gov’t revenues increased following the tax cuts, and finally how raising taxes and giving that money to the same inept government that got us into this mess in the first place (according to the author) is going to solve the problem?
I don’t understand how someone can rely so heavily on a government to get us out of the mess that they got us into as well. A matter of fact, according to the author, the government is even responsible for the obesity of the people and is responsible for the credit card debt of the people. No, he is not saying the government is directly the cause of these things, but he is implying that the people can not be held responsible for these things occurring and the implication is the government must intervene.
No like a classical socialist, he doesn’t really want to blame the government, he wants to blame those in power currently as the problem and that if you listen to him and his liberal buddies, they will have the answers. Of course we Americans need to wake up as this is the same scenario over and over and we have seen it before. The author doesn’t have a solution and he doesn’t want one. He wants to be in power and have a piece of the pie at the expense of others. He sees what the government is doing and is mad. But he is mad because he is not getting to partake in the same thing the government is.
Beware of people with no solutions but to take more of your money. They will do the same thing as those in power now. They will take your money and do nothing for the people with it. But of course actually trying to solve a problem takes effort, while taxing the people is easy. The real answer to the problem is to cut the government off all together. I wonder why you don’t hear any political hacks with this idea.
