Redistribution of wealth

Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign the read “Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed.

Once in the restaurant my server had on a “Obama 08″ tie, again I laughed–just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as Ive decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

OR IS IT………REDISTRIBUTION OF SOMEONE ELSE’S WEALTH IS A GREAT IDEA…………..or just a fools political game !!

This growth is so pernicious – why do you think Virginia is in play? All the government career liberals who regard the elected officials as “the summer help” live there!

Because their hands are filthy with that failure.

“Lies come first, and drag along the gullible. Truth limps in long afterward on the arm of time.” – Balthazar Gracian

proving once again in its aftermath this quip…

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”
…….Winston Churchill

Ed – I’m beggin ya – pleeese use a different photo of Frank – one that is less disturbing.

No such photo exists Barney is disturbing all the time

Thank you.

WaPo: Government distortion created the financial collapse
The editorial board of the Washington Post
corrects the record today at the expense of Democrats in Congress
desperately spinning the financial crisis as a failure of
deregulation. ……

The problem is that these people are completely unqualified. Who in their right mind would employ these people in any capacity?

What would Congressional clown Democrats do?

Barney Frank – men’s room attendant at gay strip club?

Barack Obama – CAIR activist?

Joe Biden – Pitchman for the Hair Club for Men?

Useless, worthless people, all of them. Which is why they have no idea how to confront the problems of the day beyond lining the pockets of their supporters.

Those are EM’s words over at HA to sum up WAPO (!)’s op/ed about The market that failed was not exactly free….

Well said, WaPo. They did leave out three people who did very well, though: Raines, Johnson and Gorelick.

Perhaps they can demand prosecution of the bad actors next.

PattyJ on October 20, 2008 at 12:32 PM

If John McCain would start shouting this point and promising jail time for these crooks, he would blow Obama out of the water come November 4th.

If we have term limits for the President why not for those who really have the power. The legislature and the judiciary have more power than the President and all should be term limited. Let them find a real job like the rest of us.

That sounds like an excellent idea to me. But let’s not stop there. Barney Frank also needs to go. And just so we don’t get accused of being racist or sexist for only going after white males, let’s put that Franklin Raines-worshipping idiot Maxine Waters on the list too.

AZCoyote on October 20, 2008 at 12:37 PM

I would like to see Curt Schilling run against Barney Frank. I might even move in with my sister-in-law in Boston to work on that race. Maxine Waters is untouchable.

I suspect Steven Pearlstein wrote it, or had a hand in it. He’s been railing against Fannie and Freddie for years in the Post Business section. I had some correspondence with him a few years back and gave him some tips about Fannie’s lobbying and lender shakedown operation.

Government support for housing was well-intentioned:

Excellent article, and pointing out the actual practical causes is essential. But the more fundamental problem is a moral one, exemplified by the quote above. There is nothing well-intentioned about a government that insists on social engineering, whether in houses, health insurance, or anything else. It is immoral, because it always violates the rights of someone, it always takes from some by force to give to others.

When the immorality of all such ideas is understood, the problems will go away for good. Until then, we can expect to see the virus break out in a new form again and again until the country is so poor it simply can’t afford that type of ‘virtue’ in the first place.

They are imagining an Obama landslide and feel safe enough to publish this editorial. It will be pointed to ad nauseum after the election for its “honesty.”

No let up my friends.

The base is fired up! And we’re going to SHOCK THE WORLD on November 4th!

Let’s roll!

Am I in an alternate reality here?