Posted on 05/18/2015 12:39:27 PM PDT by jazusamo
In a recent panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama gave another demonstration of his mastery of rhetoric — and disregard of reality.
One of the ways of fighting poverty, he proposed, was to "ask from society's lottery winners" that they make a "modest investment" in government programs to help the poor.
Since free speech is guaranteed to everyone by the First Amendment to the Constitution, there is nothing to prevent anybody from asking anything from anybody else. But the federal government does not just "ask" for money. It takes the money it wants in taxes, usually before the people who have earned it see their paychecks.
Despite pious rhetoric on the left about "asking" the more fortunate for more money, the government does not "ask" anything. It seizes what it wants by force. If you don't pay up, it can take not only your paycheck, it can seize your bank account, put a lien on your home and/or put you in federal prison.
So please don't insult our intelligence by talking piously about "asking."
And please don't call the government's pouring trillions of tax dollars down a bottomless pit "investment." Remember the soaring words from Barack Obama, in his early days in the White House, about "investing in the industries of the future"? After Solyndra and other companies in which he "invested" the taxpayers' money went bankrupt, we haven't heard those soaring words so much.
Then there are those who produced the wealth that politicians want to grab. In Obama's rhetoric, these producers are called "society's lottery winners."
Was Bill Gates a lottery winner? Or did he produce and sell a computer operating system that allows billions of people around the world to use computers, without knowing anything about the inner workings of this complex technology?
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You gotta hand it to Obama. There's almost more lies in that statement than there are words. I didn't know that was possible.
So Obama’s giving some of that $10 million back?
If it’s only nerves, just relax. Lie back, and just let her man hands massage away your headache ... She’ll feed you an arugula and beluga sandwich.... She’s been waiting a long time for a man like you so maybe make your whole weekend free...
Well, OK ... as long as everything is gluten-free.
Gluten is the least of your worries...
OK! Moochelle certainly sounds as if she might be globally warm! I am a little disappointed that Kale isn't on the menu, but I can live with that as long as the Arugula is certified organic and non-GMO.
True love would be if she gave me a pair of her jeans to cover my Harley Ultraglide ... and side-car.
“You gotta hand it to Obama. There’s almost more lies in that statement than there are words. I didn’t know that was possible.”
Very well put.
Why don’t we just send her over, wearing her jeans, to ride in your side car?? I bet when you first see her facial expression you will lose all control.
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