Moonbats’ remorse
For shafted Obama voters, repenting comes early
By Howie Carr | Sunday, November 25, 2012 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Sin in haste, repent at leisure.
One of the few silver linings in the dark cloud of Obama’s re-election is that millions of moonbats and Beautiful People who voted this month to continue our long national nightmare are now discovering, much to their chagrin, that they’re as screwed as all the “bitter clingers” who still go to church on Sunday.
Not that it was any big secret, but it’s asking an awful lot of the dumbed-down modern electorate to pay attention to its own best interests.
Of course tens of millions of Obama’s votes came from the people he likes to describe as “working families,” most of whom aren’t families and almost none of whom have worked since Lyndon Johnson. This is the freebies-for-freeloaders crowd. Think the Obamaphone woman in Cleveland.
Mitt Romney used to say they lived in “Kennedy country.” Then he called them the 47 percent. Now he says they like “gifts.”
I know, the liberals tut-tut that the gimme girls ’n’ guys pay taxes too — the sales tax, mainly, on cigarettes and their 40-ouncers. Their theme song is from “West Side Story”: “America,” as in “Everything free in America.”
But as strange as it seems, a plurality of Obama voters probably have real jobs, some even in the Dreaded Private Sector. Man, are they in dire straits.
Take the instructors at Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh.
Their hours are being cut back so the college can get around Obamacare. All you teachers, hope you enjoy being adjunct professors, because you ain’t getting tenure anytime soon. Wonder who they all voted for on Nov. 6?
One story had a quote from a CCAC English instructor who had a “vague hope” that his health care insurance costs would be going down under Obamacare.
Now, not only is he not going to be eligible for full insurance, he’s taking a $600 a month pay cut because of his reduced hours.
I have a “vague” feeling he’s not too happy.
Fortunately, all the “womyn’s studies” instructors at CCAC can pick up their insurance by getting jobs at, say, Olive Garden. But wait, I forgot — many fast-food and supermarket chains are also cutting back to work weeks of 29 A hours maximum.
(Employers have to provide health insurance to anyone who works at least 30 hours.)
“Part time is the new full time,” Michelle Malkin wrote. Now the limousine liberals in Congress are clamoring that they may have to “revisit” Obamacare, to stop all these evil corporations (and nonprofits) from switching everybody from employee to contractor. Which just means that U.S. companies will stop hiring, period. Except for the manufacturers, who’ll just outsource even more of their production to China.
Just ask Jeffrey Immelt, the boss of GE, who at press conferences of the White House “Jobs Council” plays Ed McMahon to Obama’s Johnny Carson.
Remember when a 4 percent unemployment rate was a “jobless recovery?” Those were the good old days.
But letting Obama flush the economy down the toilet was worth it, wasn’t it, to screw all those millionaires and billionaires.
You know, like George Lucas. Only thing is, he just sold his Star Wars studio to Disney for $4.05 billion to beat the Jan. 1 tax Armageddon. By some accounts, Han Solo’s real father will be saving more than $200 million.
See, the capital gains tax rate is going from 15 to 20 percent. Plus the gift-tax exemption drops from $5 million to $1 million. Not to mention the Democrats are jacking up the top marginal income-tax rate from 35 to 39.6 percent.
I know, George Lucas claims he’s giving most of this windfall to charity. Does that mean he thinks he can spend his money more wisely than Dear Leader and Harry Reid can spend his money?
Who do you suppose George Lucas voted for Nov. 6?
Sadly, much of Lucas’ obscene profits, to coin a phrase, come in the form of Disney stock. I wonder how he plans to beat Obama’s dividend tax increase, from 15 percent to 39 percent starting Jan. 1, plus the 3.8 percent Obamacare surtax on high-income earners.
These Hollywood types are like Elizabeth Warren and all the rest of the rich phonies in Massachusetts who refuse to check the box on their state income tax forms to voluntarily pay at the higher 5.85 percent tax rate. They want to soak you, but when it comes to them ponying up, well, as the late Joe Early once said, “They ran like rats!”
How about the Walton family, the owners of Wal-Mart.
Their scheme is to pay out this quarter’s dividends on Dec. 27 instead of Jan. 2. That’ll save ’em a cool $180 million. The rich get richer and the poor get ... part-time jobs.
Have you seen the bumper sticker that features the smiling face of George W. Bush?
“Do you miss me yet?” he asks.
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Now, not only is he not going to be eligible for full insurance, he’s taking a $600 a month pay cut because of his reduced hours.
Well, it is actually worse. No only is he not going to be eligible for full insurance, he is taking a $600 a month pay cut because of his reduced hours, and now he is obligated to buy his own insurance, with his reduced salary.