he's a world class enema nozzle...
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.
I reckon it is Paladin2. It’s nice for a change to be able to say I’m one of the 99% though. For that I thank you.
Liberals are the same way, they want to pull the ones being successful back into misery and squalor, rather than help each other out of it.
Aside from that, there is a heavy dose of 'grasshopper and ant' here, some prepare, and with a little luck they have what they need (it isn't destroyed by the events which make that necessary), the others who don't, don't.
But if you passed a law which said they all had to have some means to generate their own power, the liberals would be the first to scream...for someone else to take care of them.
I find it ironic that Kristoff is so steamed up about personal generators, when this same guy thought it cool if everyone made a power grid obselete by having solar panels. Just makes no sense. People having personal power is a good thing, right?
Leftists despise any sort of future orientation and resent anyone having anything that everyone else doesn't have. If they all can't have it, then no one should have it. So think leftists.
Remember that, those of you who are seriously into prepping.
I hate reality shows but would happily watch one where Kristof was put through the aggravate of suffering that would result if these generators were taken.
What a pathetic little twerp.
While searching for the article an any other reactions, I found that is is not the first time the NYT published such a piece. They ran one after the Oct 29, 2011 snowstorm that hit the Northeast.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/garden/generators-emerge-as-a-status-symbol.html?pagewanted=all
As expected, the moonbat readers agree and believe that they are causing more global warming damage and must be heavily taxed and regulated (with exceptions of course)
“Fair” ????
We need to shine the light on this concept that it is somehow the job of the government to determine and manage “fairness” in our society.
They believe that nobody can argue against “fair”, or they’ll be labeled “racist”.
Let’s start by asserting that they’ve had the microphone or the power too long, so it’s only “fair” that they sit down and shut up!
he's a world class enema nozzle...
Only rich people can afford generators, so it shouldn’t be legal to own a generator. Thus spake an idiot at the NY Times.
Just add the coming hyperinflation, and we’ll be another Zimbabwe. Which is Obama’s plan.
Your column has too much common sense. Until those who have wealth and/ or high income realize that it is in their interest to invest more of their money into the common good, then they will forever fight to keep every nickel that they make. Obama was correct is saying "You didn't build that". Government must invest in the economy so that the private sector can flourish. The captains of Industry probably know this fact but want to stuff money away and live their extravagant life styles in a bizarre game of entitlement. Just because you are smart or lucky or born on third base doesn't mean you neglect your responsibilities to the common good.
Which reminds me, I haven't stared my generator in awhile. Time to run it and "pollute" some more to piss off the NYT readers.
Well, if it works for generators the way it works with cell phones, you will pay a “universal generator tax” when you buy a generator, and the revenue will used to provide “free” generators to people on welfare. Tip ‘o the hat to Algore. I am sure the manufacturers of generators are dreaming of the day.
generators are not that expensive..you can buy a small one at Harborfreight likel for under $100...
I hike along the border areas of NY/NJ, where a lot of iron mining, forging and farming was done. Many of the present roads there were built during the New Deal; before that, those very same captains of industry built the roads, dams, and railways necessary to accomplish their goals.
They DID build that (with no government help at all); in fact there was almost no government to speak of. If you visit these areas today, they still have little government.
Exactly. In a storm like Sandy, the first things to get blown away are roof mounted solar panels. An emergency generator checked out in advance and fueled by a supply of gasoline is just the ticket. That storm was a surprise to nobody; it was tracked for more than a week in advance.
“Just because you are smart or lucky or born on third base doesn’t mean you neglect your responsibilities to the common good.”
At this point the whole thrust of the lib agenda is to destroy the advantage that comes from being born into a two-parent family with a strong work ethic and the minimum intelligence required to learn fluent English. In fact, they are driving such families to extinction with their policies (which is fine with them).
I got so steamed listening to Rush going on about this, I bought another 100 rounds of 00 for my 12 ga street sweeper.
It’s ultimately all about the hate and envy with Kristof.
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