Get ready for a bumpy, painful ride
By Doug Jones
The election has been decided and much has already been said as to the reasons for the outcome. Significant changes in demographics, explosive growth in government entitlement programs and the disintegration of the traditional family have altered principles of individualism, self-reliance and accountability that have shaped most of my lifetime.
These principles have been replaced by “the world owes me a living,” “redistribution of wealth” and, if you have been successful, “you didn’t build it.” This ideology isn’t new, but with the re-election of President Barack Obama would appear to be embraced by a majority of the nation.
Jones, of Salem, has a career in business management.
November 28, 2012 - 6:16 AM
This is just plain sad. I recognize the despair, I felt it in 1984 and in 2004. I had better sense than to voice it so publicly, but I sure know how he feels. I hope you fair better in “Obamaland” than you think you shall. Or maybe I don’t.
#1 – “I had better sense than to voice it so publicly, but I sure know how he feels.”
You’re joking, right?
You basically did nothing but badmouth GWB here on damn near everything he did. In fact, your hatred of him is still evident in many of your posts.
Mr. Jones you included,
“The country was fortunate to have had a superbly qualified alternative in Mitt Romney. With a proven record of success in both private business and government, Romney’s biggest asset was an ability to lead that he demonstrated in his church, as governor and as a CEO. The country desperately needed the leadership Romney could have provided in fixing the economy and reaching compromise to solve problems.”
Obama received about 3.5M more votes nationally than Romney or about 51.4% of the voters apparently disagree with the paragraph above. The former governor of Massachusetts received ~37.6% of the votes in the state as compared to ~60.8% for Obama. How much campaign money did Romney spend in FL and VA, which he was a loser in both? Romney failed to even carry Paul Ryan’s Wisconsin. Romney’s 47% boner told us a lot about his character and intelligence.
Michael, if this blog existed in 2004, I was not here. I did not join this “merry” band of bloggers until October 2008 or there-abouts, if I recall correctly. By then, even honest Republicans were no longer defending Bush.
What I meant by my comment was that I did not write such a self-righteous pity party letter to be published in the local paper after either election in which I was as disappointed as Mr. Jones.
The writer is great at citing the Fox News talking points about “redistribution of wealth”, t”the world owes me a living” and “you didn’t build that”. But we hear nothing about the “job creators” who have taken advantage of the tax sysytem to become obscenely wealthy while creating no jobs. Their new meme is “punishing the successful” who have become that way largely because tax codes were rewritten to give them huge advantages. Wake up and smell the roses pal.
#5 “But we hear nothing about the “job creators” who have taken advantage of the tax sysytem to become obscenely wealthy while creating no jobs.”
Some data, or at least (anecdotal or otherwise) examples please.
Or maybe not so “bumpy” or nearly as “painful”. Interesting point here: “With inflationary fears laid to rest, one might have expected a calmer attitude about deficits by now. Were it not for a fourth, less respectable, reason for fiscal panic. Conservative politicians, opposed in principle to all government, exploited deficits to demand cuts in government spending, while denying that higher taxes could play any role in reducing deficits.
But now the tables are turned. After the November 6 U.S. election deficit phobia no longer implies drastic cutbacks in public spending. Instead, it is becoming the main argument for higher taxes — especially on the rich.
Once this becomes obvious, I expect to welcome many Tea Partiers and tax lobbyist to the ranks of deficit deniers“.
http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2012/11/15/confessions-of-a-deficit-denier/
Well worth the read. I wonder if he has hit this one on the nose?
#5 – “But we hear nothing about the “job creators” who have taken advantage of the tax sysytem to become obscenely wealthy while creating no jobs.”
Why is it, dave, that we never heard about how the evil greedy rich have gotten wealthy by following the tax laws as they are written? If the law allows them a way to make money while complying with the way the law is written, then they have every right to use it.
Do YOU utilize any allowable write-offs when filing your taxes? If so, then what makes you any different from the evil greedy rich?
But no. It’s MUCH easier to say the evil greedy rich “take advantage”, as if they are cheating the system…which they are not.
Instead of complaining about the evil greedy rich, why not complain about how the current tax laws are written?
Yeah dave, you know good and well that there is no connection, no connection at all between those “job creators” and the candidates they fund who write the tax laws!
#10 – Why is it when you earn money legally and want to keep it, you are “greedy”, but the people that want to take that money away from you are not “greedy”?
Michael, you are the only one who has used the word greedy here, so you tell us?