Posted on 12/10/2012 7:56:08 AM PST by Kaslin
And most of the jag-offs who voted to reelect ObaMao will still have learned nothing.
America is already a fading memory. The liberals have already killed it and its not coming back.
The socialists dumb down program appears to be working as planed has breed so many slackers.
The flyover state congressman has it right except for the "unintended side effect" part.
My father learned this back in the 1960s when he was encouraged by local citizens in the small town in Kansas where we resided to run for the town council where he was elected.
FWIW, Dad was a quiet guy and an introvert who did NO campaigning, but these type of elective offices went begging for good people back in those days because they paid next to nothing and required a lot of responsibility for not a lot of power.
Anyway, one of the council's jobs was to help unemployed people find work. One fellow in particular was a talented mechanic and seemed ambitious. They had him matched with a job within a week or two after Dad took office.
The guy came to the next council meeting not grateful, but incensed to find out he was getting up early to drive to to a job in a neighboring town and, after the expenses of commuting and such were paid, was actually less better off than he'd been before when he was sleeping until 10 a.m. or so, going fishing when he pleased and doing some occasional mechanical work for people in the small town for cash under the table during those occasional times when he wanted extra money.
Actually, it seems to be proceeding rather rapidly.
This is NOW America, this is who we have become as a country.
We have a few younger relatives and friends, who are/will be in the new tax bs.
A couple have told their bosses or if they control/run the company, they only want to earn about 200K and have more time off each year.
They saw this coming with the Joe the Plumber and reactions from Obozo to Joe’s comments.
So they are spending more time on vacations and/or just off work.
Two young couples in their late 30’s-early 40’s, where the wife is the big earner, the husbands have given up working and are house dads.
Another couple in their early fourties with now two teen agers, had planned on the wife going back to work. She is now messing around with a couple of small business startups with minimal pay instead of going with a good 6 figure salary.
All of them saw this coming and knew if they brought in more money, they would have gone to another level of spending and then taxes from the Obozos. So they are capping their incomes and doing more enjoyable things.
“H.I., You are young and you have your health. What do you want with a job??” — Gale, in Raising Arizona
www.whywork.org
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at whywork.org. We’re a pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work? This site provides information, support, and resources for those looking for alternatives to traditional employment.”
“...side effect of discouraging harder work and higher earnings.”
I remember many years ago seeing Bob Hope on (probably) The Tonight Show. He said with the then current tax structure, he had to charge $1000 in order to make $100.
To fill the jobs that really must be filled, they will have to raise the salary to the point it is worthwhile to undertake the job. That cost will be passed on.
The Dems used to be made up of more liberals than leftists. That was bad enough i.e. LBJ's Great Society, but now more and more Dems are leftists. They want to punish the rich even though a sizable percentage of Dems are very wealthy like Warren Buffett. Even supposed conservative Ben Stein thinks taxing the rich more will help balance the budget. He's full of bananas, but more and more people have bought into the "tax the rich" scam. We're going over the cliff alright, and now we're in a freefall without a parachute.
Perverse, isn’t it. And here’s Obama extolling the virtues of a college education, but you’ll never be able to pay it off decently if you ever wanted to.
Yeah, but we’re going to make great little communists.
I recall from the mid-80s several at the company tried to decline ‘raises’ because the raises put them in a higher tax bracket. As a result, their take home pay was actually less with the raises.
The company refused, because it was a government contractor. They had a choice of taking the raises offered or finding a new job.
Wow, if I made $250k/yr, the govt could take 60% of it, and we’d still make more than we make now combined.
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