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March 09, 2009

Show Me The Money

Talk Radio host Neal Boortz highlights this letter to the editor from the Rockdale Citizen. Boortz focuses on the overwhelming class envy and wealth hated. What Ayn Rand termed the hatred of the good for being the good.

For me it brings to mind a question that I'd like to ask this moron and every other philosophically and economically ignorant idiot that agrees with this crap. And yes, I include The One in that.

Here's the letter with emphasis added:

"From the headline, 'Trillions in Fed Spending: Obama's first budget quadruples the deficit.' President Obama is giving us the change we can believe in, just like he promised. How do all the retirees feel about their life savings being worth half now? If you hadn't been so greedy all these years and had paid more in taxes we wouldn't be in this mess. I hope that before long, the president with the help of the Democratic Congress will get all of your retirement money and give it to the poor, and then you will know what it feels like. I hope and pray that we will soon have free medical care that President Obama promised. The rich have always had the insurance and money to go to the doctor, and soon you rich people will know what it's like to have to wait in line to get treatment with the rest of us. No more going to the front of the line just because you have money. During the campaign every time Obama pressed the economy his number went up and McCain's went down. The American people have spoken, we won the election from Bush. He caused all the problems and now you Bush supporters just whine about your problems, well get over it. It's a new America, and we are the Man now."

Are you ready idiots - here comes the question. I'll try to keep it simple so your heads don't explode. I won't ask you to consider any moral principles. I won't question why you think you have the right to take other people's property. I'll ask it in a way that a moral and financial parasite can grasp.

After you finish making all the rich people poor like you, who is going to pay for your free health care?

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 08:23 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment

1 I've heard it said a number of ways but I believe it to be true, If you took all the money away from the rich and gave it to the poor, as has been suggested; in a very short time the same folks who had most of the money before will have it once more and those who were without will be back in the same situation.

The reasons have to do with the ability to follow certain disciplines which permit the accumulation of wealth, the same disciplines which, when not employed keep poor people poor. Some of the disciplines have to do with education, hard work, long hours of hard work, smart work as opposed to hard work, investment skills, management skills and others. Those who are envious should spend their hours investing in themselves, learning to discipline their efforts so as to join the more wealthy instead of trying to pick their pockets or in some other way steal from those who earned the rights to wealth.

Posted by: T F Stern at March 09, 2009 09:14 AM (Ruh11)

2 You're absolutely right. But I didn't think the person who wrote that letter and those who think that way would be capable of understanding that so I tried to put it in terms they could grasp!

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at March 09, 2009 11:20 AM (UquFN)

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