So, according to Bobby, we ought to all join the idiots who are occupying Wall Street, bring everything to a halt, and collapse the collective economies of the world.
And, once that is done, what will Bobby suggest we do THEN? As with the mobs calling for destruction and mayhem, he’s a mindless buffoon without a shred of intellectual honesty.
What have " the rich" truly done to deserve being compared to someone who wants the whole world (yourself included) to bow before the Islamic system of collective subjugation? What is at stake with your siding with these tyrants from the 7th Century? The only thing that you have in common with these people is that you both hate capitalism and that you operate in a collective mode of attitude and action (you are helpless individually). All of the secular collectivists joined in taking over Iran in 1979, and once the Islamists took over, they rounded people like you up and forced you either to submit to their “religion,” or killed you. That’s where you are headed.
Regarding “the rich,” they are only doing what the government wants them to do. The leftists have written the tax code. They are following the laws as written. If the leftists wanted “the rich” to “pay their fair share” (a term that is utterly formless and void in the real world), they would have written the law for them to do so. Raising taxes will NOT make any difference, because the loopholes will remain. The only thing raising taxes now will do is decrease investment and productivity, at a time when there is hardly any productive financial activity going on.
Again, the tax code is what is pushing the rich to do what they are doing. If you lefties were serious about taking a stand against “unfairness” and wrong-doing, you’d focus your attention on the people who have written the tax code, and get them to change it in a way that doesn’t dissuade productivity, but also moves “the rich” to pay a defined and concrete notion of a “fair share.” You won’t do that, though, because that would change your focus from “the rich,” and they are your favorite boogeyman.
By the way, you are for the total governmental subjugation of “the American public” by a tyrannical form of government that seeks to control every aspect of our lives. I am for a mode of government that protects our freedoms and liberties, not dictates my thoughts and actions. I am not for one section of “class” against the other, like you obviously are. I am for the liberty of citizenship in a country that identifies the inherent rights of individual citizens, which allows people to become a Steve Jobs, or a Thomas Edison, or a Nicola Tesla, or a Michael Jackson, or a Barack Obama (a man who tells people that they can’t make it in the world, in spite of the fact that HE has).You, on the other hand, are for the reigns of power to be in the hands of an oligarchy, for them to decide upon what your future will be, and for them to mold and move you to create a Utopia based upon a model that THEY’VE dreamed of. You are for people to be mindless puppets in the hands of those who hold all the power, with no rights other than what the government “grants” them. What essentially is the difference between the way you wish government to be and how Stalin, Hitler, or Mao ruled over their subjects? One of Obama’s favorite people is Bill Ayers, and he’s totally for “reeducating” and “eliminating” people in order to force them to be the collective. Is there ANY limit to where you believe government cannot act, and if so, how do you propose that it can be stopped. As it stands in your head, there should be no end to what government can do for or TO anyone.
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Rob gets it right.
Commycon over 12 years ago
Because they are.
yohannbiimu over 12 years ago
So, according to Bobby, we ought to all join the idiots who are occupying Wall Street, bring everything to a halt, and collapse the collective economies of the world.
And, once that is done, what will Bobby suggest we do THEN? As with the mobs calling for destruction and mayhem, he’s a mindless buffoon without a shred of intellectual honesty.
yohannbiimu over 12 years ago
What have " the rich" truly done to deserve being compared to someone who wants the whole world (yourself included) to bow before the Islamic system of collective subjugation? What is at stake with your siding with these tyrants from the 7th Century? The only thing that you have in common with these people is that you both hate capitalism and that you operate in a collective mode of attitude and action (you are helpless individually). All of the secular collectivists joined in taking over Iran in 1979, and once the Islamists took over, they rounded people like you up and forced you either to submit to their “religion,” or killed you. That’s where you are headed.
Regarding “the rich,” they are only doing what the government wants them to do. The leftists have written the tax code. They are following the laws as written. If the leftists wanted “the rich” to “pay their fair share” (a term that is utterly formless and void in the real world), they would have written the law for them to do so. Raising taxes will NOT make any difference, because the loopholes will remain. The only thing raising taxes now will do is decrease investment and productivity, at a time when there is hardly any productive financial activity going on.
Again, the tax code is what is pushing the rich to do what they are doing. If you lefties were serious about taking a stand against “unfairness” and wrong-doing, you’d focus your attention on the people who have written the tax code, and get them to change it in a way that doesn’t dissuade productivity, but also moves “the rich” to pay a defined and concrete notion of a “fair share.” You won’t do that, though, because that would change your focus from “the rich,” and they are your favorite boogeyman.
yohannbiimu over 12 years ago
By the way, you are for the total governmental subjugation of “the American public” by a tyrannical form of government that seeks to control every aspect of our lives. I am for a mode of government that protects our freedoms and liberties, not dictates my thoughts and actions. I am not for one section of “class” against the other, like you obviously are. I am for the liberty of citizenship in a country that identifies the inherent rights of individual citizens, which allows people to become a Steve Jobs, or a Thomas Edison, or a Nicola Tesla, or a Michael Jackson, or a Barack Obama (a man who tells people that they can’t make it in the world, in spite of the fact that HE has).You, on the other hand, are for the reigns of power to be in the hands of an oligarchy, for them to decide upon what your future will be, and for them to mold and move you to create a Utopia based upon a model that THEY’VE dreamed of. You are for people to be mindless puppets in the hands of those who hold all the power, with no rights other than what the government “grants” them. What essentially is the difference between the way you wish government to be and how Stalin, Hitler, or Mao ruled over their subjects? One of Obama’s favorite people is Bill Ayers, and he’s totally for “reeducating” and “eliminating” people in order to force them to be the collective. Is there ANY limit to where you believe government cannot act, and if so, how do you propose that it can be stopped. As it stands in your head, there should be no end to what government can do for or TO anyone.