Here's a column - Jeff Jacoby at JewishWorldReview.com - for those of us who believe words mean things. They are a specific description meant to explain specific concepts or items. Today's word is 'tax.' George Stephanopolis looked it up! Tax: "a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes."
BarryO has a different idea, it seems: "George," chided Obama, "the fact that you looked up Merriam's Dictionary . . . indicates to me that you're stretching a little bit right now."
BarryO, when does the meaning given in Merriam-Webster become stretching??? That IS the meaning of the damn word "TAX," in proper use, clearly stated and understandable even to those of us with high school and technical school educations.
Do you need more proof of this administration's opinion of the electorate?
Then there's this: It is a myth that those who don't buy health insurance are basically free riders who unload their medical costs onto the backs of more responsible Americans. In truth, most of the uninsured are young, fit, and unlikely to need medical care. Why should they be forced to pay for expensive health insurance they don't need?
I have a theory - and since it's 'theory' I needn't use scientific principles to PROVE it - that lifelong politicians, those who wear the name Public Servant as a Badge of Righteousness, believe the Average American doesn't know what's good for him, that we're not really smart enough to pour piss out of a boot when the directions are on the heel (as my dad used to say). They live such sheltered little lives that they can't imagine anyone could survive without their help. Sad, isn't it? And sadder still is that our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution should tell them this was the attitude we got from the King - and it lit the fire under the Revolution in the first place...
AND ANOTHER THING:
This has been percolating in my mind for a few days and is only now coming clear. So forgive my disjointed rambling if you can, thank you.
Glenn Beck is not The Devil Himself. Glenn Beck is a God-believing, Family-loving, Constitution-trusting American Patriot. He MUST be doing something wonderful, because the leftists take his name in vain and and spit and belittle every damn thing about him. Well, in a bit of a continuance on my previous posting (above), Patrick Henry was a bit of a hell-raisin' rabble-rouser, too - if I remember my US History at all (which I can doublecheck easily these days).
Don't know about you, but I kind of admire that in a Man.
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2 comments:
I'm with you, KC.
The most important dividing line in politics between Right and Left now (in my mind, at least) is between those for want more government and those who want less.
As you say, those who want more consider us peons incapable of doing anything without the state.
Except that America's entire history is a case in point to the other direction, those who place trust in individuals to achieve what they desire themselves, without the incumbrance of an overweening state.
You're so right, Track. "Government help" for many of us means government rules, bureaucratic obstruction, and regulation to the point of paralysis, which ends up being no help at all - and is OFTEN a penalty or punishment instead.
I'm thinking I won't vote for a single incumbent again. These guys are all of a piece, political clones with one agenda - get theirs and get reelected - with VERY few exceptions, and are pretty much interchangeable, aren't they.
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