I re-read the Declaration of Independence today and found the following passage particularly applicable to our situation today:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The question is, how does this passage apply if half the country likes things just the way they are? When half the country has decided they are perfectly content to elect officials who will steal from the other half so that they can sit on their lazy @sses. In such a situation, I don't see how the producers "throw off such government." Despite my more recent sign-up date, I've been lurking on this site since the Clinton years. FReepers have been up in arms the whole time - always talking about how we're going to get our country back in the future. But the fact is, we've lost ground since the Clinton years. In such a climate as this, I don't blame anyone who decides that they would like to pursue their freedom elsewhere.
Okay - from the Drudge Report today one of the founders of Face Book is giving up his citizenship and going back to Brazil. It seems he’s doing this before Face Book goes on the market (and his taxes will skyrocket.)
I know the other guy who helped found Face Book is a big lib - what do you want to bet this Brazillionaire is too?
And I’ll be if I dig in a little, I’d find this guy gave all kinds of money to big liberal causes.
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How about California? After decades of voting for big liberal politicians, those people are fleeing for lower tax states.
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How about Michael Moore? Mr Moore (who thinks the rich should pay more) I believe still claims small town Michigan as his home residence. Can it be because taxes are lower? He’s pushing for higher taxes in other places.
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How about Stephen “Raise my taxes” King? I notice he lives in Florida a place known for its lower taxes. Why isn’t he paying the inflated Maine costs?
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Let’s take France itself. I just elected a guy who admits he “hates the rich” even as it’s revealed he owns three houses in the ritzy Cannes section of southern France. I wonder if some of the people now fleeing France were friends/supporters of this guy.
Humans are kind of stupid when you stop and think about it. My cats and dogs won’t crap in their beds.
Have you seen the movie “Atlas Shrugged”?
That rich steel tycoon gives his idiot son all kinds of money. Of course his son’s interest group ends up passing all kinds of laws that start to hammer said tycoon.
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How about Occupy Wall Street? The media have found that a lot of the Occupiers are on the sidewalk while mommy and daddy are working inside. They’re supporting the very thing that is going to choke them.
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When Lenin was taking over Russia he joked that “The Capitalists are going to sell us the rope we’re going to use to hang them.”
In 2012, the capitalists are GIVING the communists the rope (they don’t want to be thought of as “greedy”.)