[Rhodes22-list] Political - this made me think of Obama and some members of this forum

[Herb Parsons]

Brad, what amazes me is that people REALLY seem to believe that the 
folks with money won't take their money elsewhere. I don't understand 
the concept where those without think that all they have to do is 
insist, and those that HAVE will just give it up. They won't.


Brad Haslett wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Lately, I've woken up some mornings thinking I've found myself in an
> alternate universe - or at least a different country.  Grown men and
> women really believing in Santa Claus, or the Tooth Fairy, or Chairman
> Mao, supposedly sane and rational people are thinking that you can
> punish the most productive citizens of a society and somehow, everyone
> will benefit.  Here we are as a nation facing a serious economic
> crisis, basically an issue of fear about the safety of capital, and
> one candidate is talking about punishing capital by raising the
> capital gains tax?  This is not a theory anymore than gravity is a
> "theory". Punish capital and  you have less of it to work with -
> pretty simple concept to grasp.  Here's a man who has spent his whole
> career practicing "Robin Hood" economics and social policy and has
> nothing to show for his efforts. Absolutely nothing! He won't even
> lift a finger or spend one solitary buck to help his own brother
> living in poverty.  And this is the man who is going to save the
> world?
>
> Last night I started a new book, an autobiography of Chairman Mao's
> interpreter, whose family escaped the Japanese assault on China, ended
> up in NYC, and he eventually graduated from Harvard.  Like a lot of
> elder Chinese I have met over the years, many now deceased, they left
> the US in the 50's to build the "New China" only to be eventually
> persecuted for their education and insight to what was really
> happening.  The current "elite" among the so-called "intelligentsia"
> think they can escape history and somehow, this time, things will be
> different.  Amazing!
>
> If you'll notice, no one on this list has taken me up my offer for a
> tour of the Gulf Coast (or China for that matter) for a dose of
> reality.  No wonder so much of the internet consists of porn.  Fantasy
> is so much more attractive than reality.
>
> Orwell was prescient, he just got the year wrong.
>
> Brad
>
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>   
>> "Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by
>> educated people as in America. -Eric Hoffer
>>
>> After reading this quote, I first thought, Aha! Obama, then I thought of a
>> couple of his acolytes on this forum.
>>
>> Thomas Sowell's most recent column speaks about the issue of executive pay.
>> He said, "Politically imposed limits on the pay of CEOs is one of the most
>> penny-wise and pound foolish things that can be done."  "Congress itself is
>> a classic example of what can happen when penny-wise policies restrict the
>> caliber of people who can be attracted."
>>
>> Just think Obama of Obama's comments on rural Pennsylvannians.  Sometimes,
>> we do get insight into his thinking.
>>
>> Ed K
>> Greenville, SC, USA
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