White House hobby horse: "tax the rich"

Just heard on the news that the Comrade has now delivered 21 speeches in which he insists that we "tax the rich."

OK. Unemployment hasn't been below 8% since the Comrade took office. And it's actually about 14% if you count people who have just given up looking for a job.

The national debt is about $16 TRILLION dollars. A truly unimaginable sum.

Gasoline is still hovering about $4.00 a gallon -- not good for the economy on any level, and Comrade Butthead is sticking by his windmills and algae combo as the wave of the future.

The GSA, a government agency that actually is supposed to manage federal office space, properties, etc., has apparently been on some kind of drunken bender, spending close to $1 million for a party in Las Vegas for 300 employees -- and in another efficient activity, paid $330,000.00 to move a real estate agent from Denver to Hawaii. For what, I don't know. Seems they could have simply hired a real estate agent who already lived in Hawaii. The Denver agent then quit the GSA after being comfortably ensconced -- at taxpayer expense -- in the islands. What cost $330,000.00 to move? Did they move the agent's whole house or what?

George Zimmerman, who apparently was community-minded, supportive and helpful to neighbors of all colors, etc., shot and killed a kid who no longer seems to be a sweet and innocent as the press portrays. The local cops at first let Zimmerman off because he claimed self-defense. Now, after significant public pressure, and the New Black Panthers offering a bounty for him dead or alive -- the local authorities have now charged Zimmerman with 2nd-degree murder. However, no one but Zimmerman himself has complained about the Black Panthers putting a price on his head, which is illegal.

So in view of all this turmoil, fraud, and abuse of public authority of all kinds, the Comrade is most worried about rich people not being taxed enough.

I get the feeling the Comrade has taken himself out of the mainstream of the nation. I mean, who bloody cares about the rich?

The Comrade estimates that hiking the tax rate for the rich to 30% of thie income would raise $47 billion over ten years. That would fund the federal government for about six days.

But that's over 10 yesrs. The feds won't be collecting that for 10 years. Tax the rich more, you'll only collect the first year. After that, their funds will either all be in the Cayman Islands or buried in various tax shelters -- probably invested in other countries. The only result of will be that the funds will be withdrawn from the US economy. Period.

And I don't understand what this all about. I mean, does the Comrade think that most citizens just sit up all night stewing about those rich people? I mean, does he believe we're all just seething with envy and resentment? Like, we don't have anything else to think about?

It stinks rather like class warfare, doesn't it? The only problem is, nobody really gives a damn. And those who do are those who want to one day be rich themselves.

The Comrade is irrelevant. Look at it this way, if he disappeared tomorrow, would anyone miss him?

Actually, I think Biden might leave a bigger footprint. And at least Biden's funny; every time he opens his mouth, he sticks his foot in it.

Hurry November. Know what I mean?

Save the Republic.

The Loo at the White House

This may end up being a rather international blog.

Start with a guy name Richard or Robert Loo, who replaced Bill Daley at the White House. He was on "Fox Sunday" with Chris Wallace this morning. Anyone know what a "loo" is in England? Same as a "W.C.," which stands for "water closet," perhaps the ultimate Victorian euphemism for "toilet."

So, anyway, Mr. Loo now is speaking on behalf of the Comrade. How appropriate.

Chris Wallace asked him where the "right" to birth control pills comes from, since it's not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. No doubt a careless oversight on Madison's part. They were all men anyway, right?

Mr. Loo said this "right" comes from the socialized medicine bill.

We've covered this before. No government can invent a human right. Rights come from the Creator, not from the Comrade, Marx, Lenin, or any of his other heroes. So that's a stupid and useless comment, isn't it? Figures it comes from the White House Loo. It's probably written on the wall there, along with the phone numbers for a few congressional whores, like Nelson or Landrieu.

(In fact, not even the government has "rights." No, the government has "powers." Granted to it by citizens with "rights." Get it?)

So then Chris Wallace asked Mr. Loo, since under the Comrade's silly fix, his back-step in trying to claim authority over the Catholic God, the Catholic church will not have to be dispensing birth control and "morning after" pills to its employees. But it's insurance carrier is compelled to.

Isn't this just cost-shifting? Wallace asked. That is to say, won't the Catholic church still be paying for the pills through its insurance premiums?

Mr. Loo says no, because birth control pills are free.

(OK, about this time I'm rolling on the floor laughing, with coffee shooting out my nose. This is like an interview with Foster Brooks, remember, the comic who acted drunk all the time?)

No, really, Mr. Loo insists, if you figure in the cost of birth control pills into the cost of women's overall health care, they don't cost anything.

At this point, even Chris Wallace had coffee shooting out his nose, though the camera panned away from him, no doubt to preseve some of Mr. Loo's floundering dignity.

So in addition to the English "loo" thing, here's the other international part:

I was in Italy many moons ago. At the time, Italy had hyper inflation. The money was so worthless, when you bought something small, like a newspaper, they wouldn't give you change in lire. They'd give you a piece of candy, which was actually worth more and, let's face it, tasted better.

So here's a solution the Comrade might consider, since birth control pills really are "free." Get the drug stores to dispense them. Like, if you go to a drug store for, say, a bottle of fish oil tablets, and you give the clerk, say, a $10.00 bill, with maybe $1.50 change due back... Why not just have the drug store give you your change in birth control pills? Since they're "free," the drug stores won't be losing any money, right? And neither the Catholic church nor the insurance companies will have to deal with the issue at all.

This even works for men. If they buy condoms or viagra or something, they can get their change in birth control pills that they can pass along to their partners. Knda like the way junkies swap food stamps around. See how well that all works? Even for the black market. Everyone wins! And no one has to take any responsibility for anything.

And boy, those birth control farmers sure better step up production. I think demand is going to go through the roof. We may not be able to find enough of them growing "free" in the wild anymore. And put up big nets, so next time it rains birth control pills, we won't lose too many.

Save the Republic.