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

[Brad Haslett]

Herb,

At the risk of beating a dead horse, let's give the ole' mule one more
good last lick.  People who win the lottery usually end up miserable
because they weren't prepared for their windfall. "Wealth" is a
relative term. I have no idea how my parents are going to heat their
house this winter, but they are two of the "wealthiest" people I know.
Frankly, with all the talk going around about the "middle class", I'd
like to be "middle class" for a few years.  I went from a lifetime of
"working poor" to "upper income" overnight.  "Overnight" took 35 years
but who's counting?  Being stuck in the "middle class" doesn't sound
so bad. Don't tell my parents that the current numbers say they are
solidly in the "poverty class".  Dad is a kind and gentle man but he
does have an Irish temper and at age 87, he can still throw a punch.
There's something about those WW2 vets that at any age you don't want
to mess with.

Brad

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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