The Tax Less Taken

It's been a year. Is it safe to come out of hiding?

Talk about backwards! Our (not so) Dear Leader has once again revealed his true colors concerning his perception of your property. Critical of the Republican plan to extend tax cuts for all Americans, Obama states that to extend tax cuts to the top 3% would be "to give" an average of $100 million to each of those people.

Let me say that again: extending tax cuts = giving money to the taxpayer.

Still didn't catch it? Try this: Not taking their money = giving them money.

I'm sorry... but "not taking" is not synonymous with "giving".

"Not taking" necessarily means that the property not being taken belongs to the person keeping the property, and not to the person wanting to do the taking.

"Giving" necessarily requires that the property must first belong to the person doing the giving.

If the person "not taking" is the government, then the property necessarily belongs to the tax payor.
If the person doing the "giving" is the government, then the property must necessarily first belong to the government.

So...

To claim that a tax cut would "give" property to the rich would necessarily mean that the property belongs to the government... which is interesting, since "tax" necessarily means that the property is surrendered to the government, meaning that it first belonged to the tax payor. But for a liberal, the property never truly belonged to the person earning it, or the "wage earner", which means that at tax time, we are really figuring out how much of our salaries Our Dear Leader is willing to let us have.

Hmmm... have you been watching Greece lately?

The L-Word

Since when did calling a man out on a lie make him racist? Former president James Carter needs to just sit down, shut up, and slink off into oblivion before he hurts himself.

In a very strange, partisan attempt to suck as much juice out of a controversy as possible, Jimmy Carter, among others, is twisting S.C. Rep. Joe Wilson's timely comment during Our Dear Leader's prime time propaganda hour into racism. Please, someone explain to me just how this leap is made, and then how it is actually reported as though it is a serious addition to the issue. It would seem, in fact, that Mr. Carter's comment was the racist one here, as it would logically follow that he presumes blacks to be liars, so that any reference to a black man as a liar would automatically trigger a racial connection in his mind, just as the N-word came to do in the American language.

Add to my list of racist words: The L-Word.

How does Mr. Carter square Joe's comment with the thousands of L-bombs lobbed at the most recent former president?

This whole incident is nothing but hypocritical partisanship at its worst. Joe Wilson simply said to the president what I, and many thinking citizens around the nation, were yelling at the TV set at that same moment. Was it out of place? Well, a little more than half the House, and many other sanctimonious pansies in Washington and across the media seem to think so. I would disagree, however. I think it was totally appropriate. In fact, those around him should have applauded, and stood up, and joined in with him. Those two words should have been a chant that lasted so long that Obama finally shrugged his shoulders and sauntered off into the protective arms of the media, his Congressional partisans, and yellow-bellied Republican pansies who prefer form over substance.

See, Joe Wilson actually used the L-word in its proper context. Contrast, if you will, with the context in which it was used over the previous seven years, where "Liar" meant one who promotes the defense of his nation with statements which he believed to be true at the time they were made, but which later turned out to be unverified. Joe Wilson used the term to mean one who makes assertions that he knows at the time to be completely false.

Jimmy Carter used the term to mean a black man.

From here on out, any time Obama, or any other Democrat, opens his mouth, he should be met with passionate chants of "You Lie! You Lie! You Lie! You Lie!..."

You Sure You Wanna Hear This?

Bank of America asked me to conduct a satisfaction survey regarding my recent call to its customer service center. I just about lost it when this message appeared:

Bank of America appreciates your business and is committed to provide you with world-class service. Thank you very much for taking the time to provide your feedback and for choosing Bank of America.

I thought it would be fun to complete the survey. It won't result in any change in the Bank's position, but, well, they asked.