I wonder how that magnificent Rovian bastard planted Joe at just the right time and place?

Professor Blather on October 23, 2008 at 11:46 AM

…egads, man…don’t we believe in accidents anymore? Too many lawyers…too many Oliver Stone movies….

…maybe, just maybe, there are actually telegenic, articulate gals and guys out there, distributed at random, many with a command of the language and knowledge of the world around them sufficient to asking a simple question. This blog is proof of that…most of the time….

…I can assure you that, if Mr. Obama were foolish enough to bring his socialist backside and a sound man down my street, I’d give him a bloody earful. I tremble at the prospect of his doing the same thing anywhere near the neighborhoods some of our brother-bloggers call home.

…I’m not Joe the Plumber…he appears taller, is younger and is certainly much better looking….

…but the disrespect shown Joe is disrespect shown to all of us…the disrespect shown Gov. Palin is directed at all of us…the elites know peasants when they see them, and feel that we should all be back in the fields, backs bent and traps shut, where we belong.

…and, with that in mind, Joe is my brother….

Puritan1648 on October 23, 2008 at 12:13 PM

I don’t think Tito makes 250K a year.

crr6 on October 23, 2008 at 11:46 AM

…just exactly what is that supposed to mean?

…”we’re going to tax you sideways once you pass some imaginary boundary indicating success and prosperity, to ensure the prosperity of the ‘less fortunate’…as well as the less motivated, less educated, less plucky and ultimately less productive”….

…so, why would anyone want to profit beyond that boundary?

“Here’s how successful you can be. He’re where your ration of success ends and where your mandatory contribution to the success of others begins.”

…so, if you make less than $250K, you should shut up? It doesn’t pertain to you? You can’t be aspiring (as Joe admitted to doing) to make over that amount one day?

…or, more likely, it doesn’t concern you directly, so just go back to sleep. Your “betters” are looking after your interests.

What do firms and individuals often do with income in excess of $250K do with their dough? Often as not, they employ people. Even lawyers, even as base a specimin as John Edwards, need secretaries, researchers and other hangers-on (those with self-respect need not apply).

What percentage of jobs held today are in what we collectively and imprecisely refer to as “small business”? How many contractors, of whatever stripe, how many service firms, how many family firms and farms employing 2 or 3 or 4 people make over that imaginary line between “gettin’ by” and “raping the underclass”?

Fascism is all about a culture of crisis and class envy…and, as a fascist, Mr. Obama and his enablers in the press, entertainment and academia are keeping the pot boiling. If we were talking about Paris Hilton, with her pampered heiress life, her stupid little dog, her selfish little “needs” and her self-promoting ways were the one to be taxed punatively — and only her and people like her — we’d probably not see as much sympathy shown or as many hackles raised.

…the problem is that Ms. Hilton, aside from a few movie appearances and a recording or two, produces nothing…and even she employs people, sad bastards though they must be.

We’re supposed to deny sympathy to family businesses living on knife-edge-thin margins, employing folks, because they’ve managed their affairs and come up trumps? We’re then supposed to have “increased devotion”, as Mr. Lincoln would say, for those idlers who sit back, consume and consume, and produce nothing…just like Ms. Hilton is supposed to do?

…so, the unsympathetic folks who’ve scratched success from America’s flinty hide are supposed to pony up, and Barney Frank and legions of less honestly acquisitive and power-hungry morons are going to cut the checks.

…I’m all for it…if Joe and I get to pick who gets to cash ‘em….

Puritan1648 on October 23, 2008 at 12:36 PM

Permit me to translate: Working class people should know their place and not aspire to improve their lot in life.

Y-not on October 23, 2008 at 12:26 PM

…or, I could’ve condensed what I wrote to what you said, and it might actually get read…we say the same thing, but you say it better….

Puritan1648 on October 23, 2008 at 12:38 PM