Posted on 11/28/2012 5:21:43 PM PST by shove_it
Full Headline = Sign of National Resentment for the American Way of Life: Kristof Angry About Private Generators During Sandy
RUSH: Now, over the weekend, a columnist in the New York Times by the name of Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece. He's all upset about the electrical grid failing in the Northeast during Hurricane Sandy. But that's not what made him mad. What made him mad was the reliance that some people had on private generators. He was upset about that, that some people had them and other people didn't. Here's the short version, according to David French at National Review.
This is the short version of Kristof's piece: "Low tax rates on the rich, plus failure to deal with climate change, equals decaying infrastructure, increasing inequality, and wealthy opt-outs from public services," and public utilities. And they're able to go get their own generators, and this is not fair, that some should have generators and others shouldn't. And it's all because of climate change and all because the rich and income inequality that some people had private generators and others didn't. He made a whole column about this!
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RUSH: I'm not kidding. This guy Nicholas Kristof, this is mainstream liberal opinion at the New York Times, a piece over the weekend upset about the electrical grid being insufficient, failing, being knocked out of power. Not just during Hurricane Sandy, but primarily then, but any other time it goes down, it's not fair that some people aren't affected by it. They're able to go out and own private home generators to get through the outage while other people are unable to. And he claims that the reason that this is possible is that tax rates on the rich have been too low, which means the rich have too much disposable income, and with that disposable income they're able to go out and buy private generators that they really shouldn't be entitled to have. It's not fair.
Now, as I go through all this, keep in mind based on the election results, the American people agree with this. The American people signed on for this. The American people, maybe by a couple, three million votes, whatever it was, 51 to 48%, the American people agree with this. You don't get points for getting close. You don't get points for almost winning. You don't get points for losing, but not by a landslide. You'd be amazed. The people of California voted to increase their own taxes. They voted to raise taxes on themselves. The people of California are voting for what is happening there. And now we can say the people of this country are voting for what's happening here.
So when Kristof says low taxes on the rich are to be opposed because they are able to go out and buy things like private home generators so that they don't feel the electrical grid outage, so it means we have to raise taxes and also the grid failed because we're not doing enough on global warming. We're not raising taxes enough to deal with global warming. We have failed to deal with climate change. We don't have high enough taxes on the rich, and that means that our infrastructure is decaying, that there is a greater inequality of income among the people, and the real insult is that the wealthy are then able to opt out from public services.
Now, in the old days, not too long ago, I remember where this is the kind of thing that people aspired to. People aspired to be successful, to earn enough money to provide themselves an increasing standard of living, and this provided motivation and inspiration for others to follow. Now, that's not the way it is in America anymore and we're going to have come to understand that. Success is not inspirational. Success is not motivational. Success makes you a target. Success makes you an enemy. Success means that you aren't playing fair. And I'm not exaggerating.
At some point we're gonna have to understand what's happened here. It's not the Latino vote that caused us to lose the election, and it's not the single women under 30 vote, and it's not all these other demographic things that resulted in Romney and us, the Republicans, losing the presidential race. Those are convenient excuses that are easy for the Republican Party to seem to address, which will not matter in the long run. We are losing the American way of life. The American way of life is now targeted. The old standard American way of life is now seen as the big problem, because not everybody can share in it, not everybody has a fair shot at it, not everybody will ever be able to participate in it fully, and so it's unworthy, unjust, and should no longer be allowed.
And that's where the people of this country are. You can sit there and tell me, "No, Rush, no." It's like Bill Parcells always says about an NFL team, "You are what your record is." If you're 4-7, you are 4-7. You're not a maybe, you know, 10-4. You're 4-7, you're 4-7. Your record is what you are. The country is what it is. The guy running for reelection made no bones about what he intends to do, and he certainly didn't hide what he intends to do for four years in the big picture. He got reelected. Certain things, folks, there is a deep resentment.
This is the thought process that led Stalin to kill the Kulaks — “Oh? You are a successful farmer? You do not need the State to help you? Then, we will kill you and take your land.”
So, did Kristoff have his own generator?
Farm confiscation is in the plan. Coming very soon, 2013.
After Katrina the chocolate city mayor declared martial law and banned private ownership of guns. Seriously.
When the you know what hits the fan food, gas, generators, and guns will be declared property of the State.
For more info look up the book The Great New Orleans Gun Grab.
If Kristof is so worried; let him provide the generators.
I live in a remote area... I qualify as lower, lower class... I have a generator... as well as many of my poor neighbors... That jack donkey making a statement that only wealthy have generators... is BS!
I wish I’d hooked the TV up to a pedal powered generator during the time my kids were attending Elementary and High Schools. It’d be good for the kids to well know what it takes to generate 100W.
Come and try taking mine, Kristof.
I challenge you.
I’ll be getting a whole house on auto stand-by next year.
"For more info look up the book The Great New Orleans Gun Grab."
It won't happen in Louisiana next time....nor in a number of other states who observed the anti-gun actions during Katrina, and passed laws and/or state constitutional amendments specifically forbidding any such activity (at least for guns......and if they can't get the guns, they can't get the generators, either).
i'm rich because i bought a generator??? who knew...
No need to redistribute generators where I am; everybody already has one. No one can steal them either, we’re all heavily armed.
There are seven of us on a two mile stretch of country road. We’re the last one’s on the power company’s list to get repairs made. It’s okay, we have our own. It’s just how we are here.
LLS
It is comforting to know that I am not alone! Someone out there thinks like I do!
LLS
commies really believe stuff like that
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