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The Fairness Delusion
The speech our President should make.
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The parents I am talking about have had no choice. They have had to put up with the worsening crime. Put up with worsening education. Put up with values they do not share, foisted on them by legislators and judges and bureaucratic rule-makers who do not have to live at their side. And in return? My opponents add up a pittance of money that many of these parents despise anyway, say they will increase it, and call it fairness.
I am not going to spell out a program of solutions for you tonight. That is another speech — but I will warn you that the solutions are tough, and far more sweeping than anything this Administration has considered in the past. Tonight, I want you first to realize the nature of the problem. We, the comfortable people, are requiring that millions of people who share our aspirations, our values, and our priorities live in a world run by rules that we pushed upon them, and that we would not dream of accepting for our own neighborhoods or our own children. It is arrogant and smug. It is also tragically unfair.
THE ISSUES IN THE President’s speech are formidably complicated, and perhaps it is just as well that they are not at the center of the campaign’s rhetoric. They are too important to be left to political statistics. My thesis is that the more closely the numbers are examined and the more deeply the analyses of social policy over the last twenty years are scrutinized, the clearer it becomes that we took a wrong turn in the mid 1960s — not in any one program, to be fixed by any one remedial amendment, but in the nature of the rules of the game that we created for poor people. As far as I can tell, neither Republicans nor Democrats are eager to confront the full implications of changing those rules. Welfare cheats are an easier target for the conservatives; hungry children are an easier object of compassion for liberals. But at least the political rhetoric has one thing right: “Fairness” is the proper word for describing what our social policy is not. We just need to think harder about what it means.
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TLP| 5.11.12 @ 7:20AM
I love it when a bunch of Crooked Millionaires, go on and on about Life's Inequities, don't you?
I like when Corrupt Politicians, who've made Millions via Insider Trading, and snatching up Parcels of Land, just before the Legislation goes through for that New Highway, or that New Airport, make one of those stern faces, and lambast THE RICH for being Greedy.
Think: Harry Reid.
I like the fact that a woman, who is, OBVIOUSLY, not right in the head - Nancy (The good Catholic) Pelosi - is out there, fighting every day for the Right to Unionize, at the same time HER FAMILY, runs Vineyards and Restaurants, with NO UNION LABOUR. As do all of the Hollywood Super Libs Who film everything they can, in Canada, so as to NOT pay Union Scale. You know the type. They have to go to Africa to buy a Black Kid, because their Careers could use the shot in the arm that Adopting an African Kid seems to bring these days. So they buy the kid from its Parents, whereby they take it home, where they promptly pass it off to their South American Domestic Help, never to be seen, again. FAIRNESS.
These are the people who think it's "FAIR" to try and deny us OUR RIGHT to have a Firearm to Protect our Kith and Kin, even as they have Armed Bodyguards at their Disposal 24/7 that WE PAY FOR.
They think it's FAIR that they can get Full Retirement, after 5 1/2 Years. They think it's FAIR that they should Fly around in Private Jets and Rub Elbows with Millionaires and Billionaires, on our Dime, while Herding the rest of us in to little Sardine Can Cars, so we can save gas when we drive to the Supermarket to try and find Food for our Families, that we can AFFORD, from the "Savings Aisle", where all of the items are packaged in Recycled Containers, like the Generic Ibuprofin or the Generic Antacid Pills.
They think it's "FAIR" that they get to vote themselves Raises, or add $BILLIONS of Free Campaign Dollars (EARMARKS) to Legislation, so they can take it back to their Districts and throw it around, thus keeping them in Office, in perpetuity.
But, of course, as we've all been told before, by the Late Democrat Speaker of the House - Thomas "Tip" (as in - His Booze Glass) O'Neil - "The Fish ROTS from the Head, down".
President FAIRNESS likes to Play Golf. He likes to go on Multi- Million Dollar Vacations, and throw Lavish Parties with his Hollywood Sycophants, where the Crystal Champagne flows like a River, from the Bottles in his servant's white gloved hands, and the Caviar, the Kobe Beef, and the Maine Lobsters, are all Never Ending, and ON THE HOUSE via you and me. And when His Majesty, and Her Excellency have had their fill?
THE ONE, who has our U.S. Military out there, fighting our Enemies "On my behalf", will Majestically, step up to the Podium, and with a Stern look of resolution, on his face, He will tell us all, AGAIN, how we must "Share in the Sacrifice", because "It isn't FAIR that some should have more than others." And, if we would just all come together on Election Day, and give him 4 More Years? He can take us to the Mountain Top of Fairness. where everybody has the same thing.
They all have NOTHING.
It's like a Bad Dream.
SUBVET| 5.11.12 @ 10:14AM
TLP............right on brother.....may God bless you.
Keep your ammo dry....
TLP| 5.11.12 @ 4:21PM
You're the man.
Harry Nhadzack| 5.14.12 @ 12:52PM
TLP for POTUS!!!
cellomom| 5.11.12 @ 9:05AM
Today on CNN-"How Unequal Pay Threatens Our Democracy." Unfairness is definitely the meme of current times.
Von Mises Jr| 5.11.12 @ 9:06AM
The welfare state has cost tens of trillions of dollars that has destroyed the value of the dollar. The result is continual and massive inflation. The well employed have their incomes adjust with inflation. The liberal establishment uses this redistribution of wealth to enrich themselves.
But the poor and those on fixed income are the victims of this liberal nonsense. Seniors did not get a Cost of Living increase for a few years, I believe. Low income people and those on entitlements did not see their income increase as we suffer some 12% inflation in food over the last few years. All while the liberals in DC, NYC and Hollywierd eat caviar and drink Krystal at $150-200 per bottle at the store and probably twice that at their swanky clubs.
The welfare state was set up for the welfare of government rent seekers such as the Clintons, Pelosi, Obama and the GOP liberal establishment types.
cicero| 5.11.12 @ 1:53PM
...and the people deserve everything they get. They voted for all of this insanity. It is the people who feel compelled to pay $65.00 a ticket to listen to their heroes lip sinc on a stage, while they, the people jump up and down and scream their lungs out asking for more. It is the people who pay $100.00 for a ticket, parking, and a cold hot dog, so they can sit with the cheering crowd when their athletic heroes play little kid games. It is the people who show up and cheer when their elected rulers promise them free stuff, paid for by their own money taken from their paychecks. The tiger never feels sorry for the goat. The lion never feels sorry for the antelope. The politician never feels sorry for the fools that vote for them. They are like the alligator whose eyes water after swallowing its victim whole.
Next time you have a school millage election in your district, conducted on an off month, when nobody suspects one is being held, watch for all the parents who are thrilled that their kids' teachers finally decided to talk to them, rush to the polls, and gratefully vote in the affirmative, so that the teacher can get a raise in her salary that is double what the foolish parent gets, even though the teacher works one half the time, has a pension after 20 years that the parent will never see, and has all summer off, when the parent will have to work harder to pay for the day care, or child care establishment so that the teacher can sit on her derriere.
Great country, this America. We have so dumbed down the voting public over the past 50 years that they don't even see that they are b eing led down the chute. Unless this thing gets turnedd around, and fast, the great experiment in Republican Constitutional government will fade into history, never to be heard of again.
Lee Ghume| 5.12.12 @ 10:09AM
Bread and circuses anyone?
POST American| 5.11.12 @ 11:59PM
-----Routine, white--out 'Ball--KIN--ization' op--------
Meanwhile, "Notice as the REAL campaign
approaches, the REAL issues 'disappear'."
BTW ----speaking of the ILLEGAL, nearly
century long usurpation of our country
and 'CULL-chore' by the USURY mongering,
EUGENICS and sedition promoting 'FED'
--------------------BILDERBERG's-----------------------
set to be having their annual meeting at the Westfield's Marriott
near Dulles airport in Washington, D.C..
----------------------------------BEEEEE THERE!
Harry Nhadzack| 5.14.12 @ 12:55PM
Wow...
AM SPEC are you paying attention?
Some GREAT writers here on the comments you should pick up on your staff
TLP and Ciscero would make great add ons to your staff, imo