Posted on 05/08/2005 7:35:09 PM PDT by leepbutler
The left is all about distortion. They conveniently forget that the Nazis were socialists and are now waging a campaign of making Jesus Christ into the first socialist.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! Robin Hood took from the government and gave to the poor. Stupid libs, can't even get the facts right.
bttt
Sounds to me as if Kristof has lined his nest already. Doesn't need anymore.
Therefore, he wants to toss scorn on all his liberal allies who are trying to get a piece of the action.
Typical Liberal.
Where are Dennis Moore and his horse Concorde when you need them. "He robs from the poor and gives to the rich..."
What do you mean "we"?
Ping.
“The study found that we face a present value ‘fiscal gap’ - the excess of expected payments over expected revenue - of $51 trillion. That’s 11 times our official national debt and also greater than our total net worth, meaning that in some sense we’re bankrupt.”
Gives one an idea of Robinhood's future tax rate.
I realize what follows is heresy but here goes. The Greatest Generation is also the Greediest Generation. THEY are the ones that came back from WW2 and decided to break the piggy bank. THEY, NOT THE BOOMERS are the ones who pushed for increases in SS benefits, voted for Medicare, established the principle of endless deficit spending, demanded Medicare pay for their meds. The Boomers have been paying through the nose to cover those benefits, and as things stand look to see the system collapse just in time for their retirement.
You beat me to it.
Not only taxes, but one of the most dramatic shifts in wealth comes from corporations to trial lawyers in the US as they stick up American capitalism for spurious lawsuits.
The sustem is not going to collapse just in time for boomer retirement, but they are the ones who will pay proposed tax increases unless they understand that indexing is a better idea.
What'd you say? Friar Tucks?
bump for later
But the trial lawyers and the tort system in the US is bankrupting the same corporations that will pay the pensions and medical benefits of their employees. The lawyers and their families will be taken care of; but the average employee will be left out to dry.
It's all part of the same agenda and why the Dems are fighting so hard over judicial appointments.
I say we appoint Michael Shiavo to head the new Department of Elderly Termination. You make it to 65 and we throw you a big party, culminating in your send off to the next life. We won't need to worry about Medicare or SS Reform. Just kill em off.
It would be a hugh savings.
I like what the author Douglas Coupland called them: Guzzling Geezers. Remember that it was the "Greatest Generation" that kept sending Democrats to the House and Senate and voted full throttle for the "New Frontier" and "Great Society."
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