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Status Quo Antebellum
Make way for Obama’s little Robespierres.
They tell a story about an old Jew who was living in Paris during the French Revolution. A friend of his from Poland came through for a visit and asked him if the unrest was affecting him personally. “Are you kidding? They are chopping people’s heads off with the guillotine left and right!”
”Are you afraid of becoming a target?”
“Nah. Who am I? A nobody.”
“So how does the guillotine affect you personally?”
“Because I’m in the hat business.”
Well, the French Revolution seems to be back with a vengeance. This weekend people went out to the homes of executives of the AIG insurance company to protest outside the gates, even leaving messages in the mailboxes (a Federal offense honored in the breach). Among the comments recorded by the press was one gentleman saying there were no such opulent homes in his neighborhood.
One lady said that returning their controversial bonuses is not enough, they should volunteer for additional taxation and the Lord will bless them. I suppose the same temperament which allows people to allot the assets of their fellow citizens allows them to distribute the Lord’s blessings in accordance with their own dispositions. My own experience teaches restraint in the area of apportioning the Lord’s bounty.
The larger point here is that we have lost sight of technical matters like correcting fiscal problems, we have even lost sight of volitional moral behavior such as giving to the needy, and we have surrendered to the dictatorial dialectic of equality at all costs. If we can’t all be equally rich then, dammit, we should be equally poor. Let’s chase those rich folk to their lairs and take from each according to his agility.
Granted it is poor practice to broadcast one’s wealth in a parade of ostentation. The families which have maintained wealth over the span of multiple generations tend to adopt circumspection as a virtue. Certainly there are two breeds among the moneyed, those who avoid the public eye and those who pop it out of its socket. We might call them the Haves and the Have Snots. Still, the offense of the vulgar ones is aesthetic, not essential. If they got it and want to flaunt it, just turn the other cheek and look away.
This sort of peasants-at-the-gates revolution is scary on one side, but it is being mirrored on the right by the return of the American Revolution in the form of tea-party rallies. Four thousand people gathered in Fountain Square in Cincinnati (where I met Bob Dole, Colin Powell and Ted Koppel back in ‘96) a fortnight ago, and about five thousand came together in Orlando this past weekend. No Mickey Mouse crowd that. Some of your sleepily conservative homebody types are being roused by bad loans to high interest in first principles.
This excites folks in the reporting business, because this is the sort of fodder that pays allowance regularly. Covering demonstrations is always fun. The side you like you build up with clever quotes and camera angles that make the Chicago Nine look like the Million Man March. The side you disdain you zap with dumb quotes and pictures of three geeks holding pickets. That is how to give ordinary citizens a proper gander at what is going on out of eyeshot.
So will this all end in the streets? Has Obama pushed his revolt to the extreme point where it can only be decided in the gutter? Will the French Revolution square off against the American Revolution in our streets with the new government health-care squad standing by to do triage on the injured, and may the best-manned win? None of this bodes well for our future. We should have elected What’s-his-name, the centrist reformist guy from Arizona. At least he believes wars are best fought outside our own streets.
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Jay D. Homnick, commentator and humorist, is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. He also writes for Human Events. Here he speaks at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Miami on June 8, 2012.
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Tenn Slim| 3.25.09 @ 7:18AM
All
For months I bemoaned the upcoming election, as a meld of Socialists, Activitists, Leftists, and all like ilk. Most blogs simply ignored the posts, and wailed mightley on the current rhetoric talk.
Come November, the tears flowed, both left and right, the kool aid flowed and we embarked on the Transformational Path to the Left.
Now it is 2009, mid March, with March Madness, both basketball and fiscal idiocy on us. The absolute worst that I could have thought of, back in March of 2008, has and is happening.
We, the USA Electorate made a grave error on November 2008. We are just beginning to understand the gravity of the situation.
OBNA minions marching in support of fiscal legislatition, the campaign activitists leading the charge to storm the gates of the declared weathly. Our country has been hijacked by the Left, led by the 60's activitists, 70s and 80s elite academia economists, and the Center for American Progress faithfully writing the Teleprompter Speechs.
Folks, I am now turning the page. No more whining about elections past, no more angst over the 2nd and 3rd and 4th level activitists invading the Civil Service, no more arguing with the moderate GOP who just want to get along, no sir. From now on it is Heritage Foundations Principles across the Blogsphere. Post, Post, Post the principles, the Right is marching to glory.
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Jeremiah| 3.25.09 @ 7:35AM
I wouldn't worry about any reign of terror.
The "conservative" propaganda since the 80s has been so effective that people generally believe the wealthy are entitled to their wealth, and they believe their own economic insecurity is related to their own personal ethics -- not things like the stagnation of wages.
The ideology seeks constantly to reinforce the notion that wealth is tied to hard work. There are CEOs earning 15, 16, 17 THOUSAND times what the average earner makes in companies that have gone belly up. Does this mean they worked 15 thousand times harder than you or me?
The narrative is so compelling that I doubt anything could unseat it at this point, and the little pitchfork demonstrations you see are just a pressure valve giving way to prevent something bigger (and more effective) from happening.
Siegfried X| 3.25.09 @ 8:41AM
Sore losers
The same thing happens after every election. A few extremists on the losing side make up a bunch of lies, painting the new president as an extremist, a threat to their liberty who might need to be met, they darkly hint, with force.
It's doubly ridiculous this time around since the Republicans nominated a socialist RINO as their presidental nominee. The same people who voted enthusiastically for John McCain's cap & trade bill now see it as being a dire threat to their liberty since Obama won.
Gill O’Teen| 3.25.09 @ 9:15AM
Siegfried X, if “(t)he same thing happens after every election”, it also happened after the elections of 2000 and 2004.
Um...| 3.25.09 @ 9:51AM
Mr Homnick, timely piece. Thanks. Zeh SturmACORNweitung is just the beginning.
Poor Jerry. "Does this mean they worked 15 thousand times harder than you or me?"
Yes, Jerry, I get paid well - very well indeed - because I had invested years in training (at appropriately low wages) to solve very difficult problems that lazy sods such as yourself couldn't even understand. Do you truly believe that because I have worked hard to achieve advanced skills and earnings that I have behaved unfairly, and so you have a right to confiscate my property?
Sorry, lad, but your envy and inferiority complex does not justify your covetousness. Get a job Jerry. Go for it.
Douglas Skinner| 3.25.09 @ 10:07AM
Dear Jeremiah,
You write (as if you were making a real point), "There are CEOs earning 15, 16, 17 THOUSAND times what the average earner makes in companies that have gone belly up. Does this mean they worked 15 thousand times harder than you or me?"
Well, Oprah makes thousands of times more than I do and probably you do. Do you think she works thousands of times harder?
Personally, I would support confiscatory taxes on entertainers because it is manifest they don't work as hard as most of us.
Son Of Sam | 3.25.09 @ 10:45AM
Liberalism is a war against the middle class. Liberal programs to "help" the poor, the un-educated, the un-citizened do NOTHING of the kind: they only allow lying thieves disguised as "public servants" to HELP themeselves to our money.
The ObamaNazis are only the logical result of this war, just as genocide is the logical result of all forms of tyranny. The ObamaNazis and their Kool Aid chugging dupes are on one side; the patriots and conservatives and America lovers are on the other side. We will fight them until we have won unconditional victory. So yes, it WILL be decided at least partly "in the streets".
Step aside ObamaNazis, while you still have the chance to do so gracefully.
until freedom dawns,
Son Of Sam
http://www.geocities.com/samadamssos
Louis Jenkins| 3.25.09 @ 10:50AM
The ruling elite have worked the peasants into a killing frenzy. Let's be honest with ourselves, all this anger over a million or two of bonuses paid to each executives is just a paltry drop in the bucket when considering the billions that have been spent to bailout just about anything. It's chicken feed to congress and the executives, and it 'ain't' even their money, its your money and your obligation. Doesn't make it any easier to digest, but it is a ploy. It is an act! Keep the people's attention occupied on the bonuses. Remember Nero? Rome is burning: blame the Christians!! Meanwhile, our elected officials are up to no good. The "enforced volunteer" program (GIVE) made it through both sections of congress so your middle school child will be impressed into 50 hours of volunteer service each year, Pelosi called illegal immigrants patriots last week (what useless verbal tripe), and Holder has declared that weapons purchased by US citizens and smuggled accross the border as responsible for the drug war in Mexico. All this play school bonus inflamation has a reason. "What good leaders they are, they got the bonuses back," the peasants are exclaiming. As the bonus recipients are burned at the stake by the angry masses, Congress passed at 90% tax to regain the bonuses. If it can be done to these guys where is the minimum ? A dangerous precedence has been established. How dare that man have a loaf of bread when I only have one piece!! Off with his head!!
james wilson| 3.25.09 @ 11:08AM
Mr, Homnick, if the Founders and the generation of voters who signed on in 1787 were to make a visit to our time, there would be no talk of restaint, or of electing the man who believes wars should be fought outside our country while he negotiates the rot from within.
Not only Jefferson, but the great Edmund Burke as well believed no government could keep its balance without a genuine fear of its citizenry.
They are not afraid us anymore, nor of you. This is not working.
Jeremiah| 3.25.09 @ 11:12AM
I find it incredible that one of you can refer to John McCain as a "socialist" when he spent 5 years as a prisoner of war fighting against communists in Vietnam, while another one of you can blithely and with no effort of thought refer to Obama as a Nazi. Sir, better men than you gave their lives fighting Nazis in Europe, and to make light of that sacrifice to make a cheap and really stupid political point is artless, bogus, gutless, and foolish.
To "Um" and the rest of you who completely misread my first comment, let me say this:
I did not mean to imply that those who earn a great deal of money do not work hard.
But it does not follow that because many wealthy people are driven, hardworking people, people who do not earn a great deal do not work hard.
The analogy -- like most ideological structures -- does not withstand even cursory scrutiny. Do you work harder than some poor immigrant who toils in a food processing plant 60 hours a week for 7 dollars an hour? I doubt it.
The fact that hard work can lead to wealth does not mean wealth is only the result of hard work -- as someone's (not very clear) point about Oprah confirms.
George W Bush did nothing to earn his money; in fact, everything he did as a business man should have ensured he was broke and begging on the streets for bread. Would that the universe had been just.
So please. Spare me.
Jeremiah| 3.25.09 @ 11:17AM
Son of Sam --
There are plenty of people who post foolish things on this website. I suppose I have posted things that, upon reflection, I found silly or inaccurate.
You sir, never post anything remotely worth reading. You somehow manage to be nasty and boring -- a rhetorical feat I would have thought impossible.
Even your handle ("Son of Sam") -- although I am aware it has more than one possible meaning -- is creepy and pretty lame.
My advice? Get yourself a library card and spend some time in a big, publicly funded, tax payer supported library and read some books. Choose any subject matter: history, philosophy, economics. Something. But make sure you read good books -- the classics. Try literature maybe. Poetry, if you think you can handle it. You need to get in touch with your inner human.
Texas Male | 3.25.09 @ 11:58AM
Jeremiah said:"But it does not follow that because many wealthy people are driven, hardworking people, people who do not earn a great deal do not work hard. "
What exactly is your point in a nutshell Jeremiah? Do you beleive that the government should determine who deserves what? Do you believe someone who works hard for a living but dropped out of school in the eighth grade should be GIVEN money from the pockets of a driven and intelligent individual who sacrificed to make a six figure income yearly? Or do you just believe if you never worked hard for wealth, the government should be given the right to make that determination and take it from you? for someone who seems to be intelligent, you sure have some skewed ideals.
If we start down the same road that has been tried and failed of income/wealth redistribution, it will end where it ALWAYS ends....a corrupt and uncaring government with the power to make all of us poor and a redistribution of power from us to them. You MUST see that as the logical outcome. Just look at our current crop of congressmen and their actions and tell me government is capable of effectively administrating social programs and redistribution on as large a scale as you seem to suggest.
Jeremiah:"The "conservative" propaganda since the 80s has been so effective that people generally believe the wealthy are entitled to their wealth"
They are...and it's not yours or the governments business HOW they got it unless it was illegal! Do you and the Obama minions forget how our republic is defined? You know things like individual liberty and a government subservient to the citizens.
Hank Archer| 3.25.09 @ 12:25PM
Douglas Skinner and Jeremiah,
It has nothing to do with how "hard" someone works. It has to do with how much some other, non-coerced, person is willing to pay them.
Jim| 3.25.09 @ 1:19PM
Not to worry Jeremiah, as soon as you and your ilk have "completely" replaced God in our society, then all will be fair and just in the universe.
There are so many who have so much more, materially, than I do but I neither envy nor despise them. All "good people" do what they can to lift up the downtrodden but to impose on the "rich" against their God Given Will a system of gov't that would force them to give what YOU deem to be their "fair share" is pompously arrogant and downright ignorant. You sir, are an elitist of the worst kind.
Behind every item of convenience and luxury that I have in my home i.e. LCD/HDTV, microwave, refrigerator, ice maker (what would I do without it), remote control (my control), my little Honda Civic, my riding lawn mower, et al... stand some very, very rich people. These same people also pay the majority of the taxes in this country.
To them, I say, thank you and keep up the good work. And most of these people are very generous in their giving to charities as well. Thank you Bill Gates for this PC upon which I now write. Ain't windows the coolest thing.
Jeremiah| 3.25.09 @ 1:52PM
Texas Male and Hank --
I hope you'll take this in the spirit it's offered. I appreciate the points both of you make and am willing to reconsider my own views in light of them. I only wish Jim and Um would follow your example and engage in rational debate without name calling or bizarre speculations, including the idea that I am somehow opposed to God.
I would go even further than you both and claim that some people deserve to be wealthy even though they don't work hard by normal standards.
Paul McCartney is a billionaire because he's brought pleasure to millions of people singing songs. God gave people like that a gift, and I think they deserve to get rich for it.
And of course I believe people who come up with great ideas, or who just work hard, deserve the wealth they can earn.
None of this, however, means -- necessarily -- that people are poor because they don't work hard.
And the disparity in wealth in this country is growing unwholesome and bad for our society.
Al Adab| 3.25.09 @ 2:13PM
Here is exactly the problem. Having lost the war of words in 2006 and confirmed in 2008, the Conservative movement now must look to its next action. Beyond that however is the issue of American freedom and federalism itself. How can we remain a self-governing nation when as the dust settles we find the majority of the economy placed under the control of Government bureaucracy? There is a word for such conditions or for such governments. What is a free people to do inorder to retain their rights against a government "destructive of those ends"? We had better study our history, read our Cicero and decide. Beyond dumping tea and mailing teabags to the White House April 1st, what actions are needed? Posiing the question presents a frightening answer. Where do we as people stand to avoid going quietly into the night?
English Rightie| 3.25.09 @ 2:20PM
Jeremiah, what are you talking about? Is it your contention that because YOU consider that Paul Mccartney has a God given talent, he deserves his millions? The only reason that he gets the money is because enough people like him - his (in your opinion ) talent is irrelevant. If (in your opinion) he was talentless, he would still be entitled to it if enough people were prepared to pay. I myself can't stand Oprah Winfrey, but that's no reason why she should not earn whatever her idiot supporters think she's worth (if you don't understand that point, you are not worth talking to). A society that tries to regulate wealth differences by coercion usually ends up making them worse, with the perpetrators on top.
Doppy| 3.25.09 @ 2:35PM
I love my tv president, he's so coool and deboner.
Texas Male | 3.25.09 @ 2:36PM
Jeremiah:"the disparity in wealth in this country is growing unwholesome and bad for our society."
I believe the disparity in wealth that some say is becoming greater is in fact a myth. This notion is the latest tool being used from the socialist playbook. The first thing that happens when socialist take power is to deny they are socialists. The second is to squeeze the middle class (whom are normally the largest contingent in a democracy) through taxes and hyper-spending in the guise of helping the poor (and in this case bailing out those who are "too big to fail"). the sleight of hand involves convincing the nation that they have fallen prey to capitalism when in fact we have been social engineered to death...handing out mortgages to those who couldn't (or wouldn't) pay...turning a blind eye to greedy, ponzi schemed corporations who are free to monopolize the financial markets and doom the economy...corrupt labor with out of control unions and floods of illegal workers who depress wages....and on and on.
The disparity comes from government crushing the middle class and deflecting blame on to the "rich". Our army special forces use these same tactics on the battle field to cause chaos behind enemy lines......the socialists are the enemy amongst us using their tried and true tactics, keeping us in fear and using that fear to control.
Jim| 3.25.09 @ 2:41PM
Jeremiah continues to opine, "And the disparity in wealth in this country is growing unwholesome and bad for our society."
Since when Jeremiah, 1776?
Texas male | 3.25.09 @ 2:53PM
From the resignation letter of an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit :
"I am proud of everything I have done for the commodity and equity divisions of A.I.G.-F.P. I was in no way involved in — or responsible for — the credit default swap transactions that have hamstrung A.I.G. Nor were more than a handful of the 400 current employees of A.I.G.-F.P. Most of those responsible have left the company and have conspicuously escaped the public outrage."
Hmmm, were those responsible possibly part of the "socialist special forces" trained to get in, wreak havoc, and get out? I think so (see my post above)
Jeremiah| 3.25.09 @ 3:03PM
Jim --
I'm glad you asked. Actually wealth disparity in our country today is FAR greater than it was in 1776, 1876, and 1976 (discounting slaves, of course).
John Adams's Boston had wealthy people and poor people, but the difference between them was far smaller than it is today.
English Rightie --
Because you rely on pre-made arguments, you insist on finding something in my post that is not there. I did not say that wealthy people I like deserve their wealth; I just used an example. I'm not all that particularly fond of Paul McCartney, either. I understand your point; I just think you misunderstood mine.
Texas Male --
Positing a secret cabal of socialists to blame for the failures of Wall St. capitalists is a weird though understandable tactic.
Capitalism will tear its own flesh if left to itself. There's no such thing as an eternally benevolent "invisible hand" that will fix everything if only left to its own devices. That's Moloch-worship.
George S| 3.25.09 @ 3:26PM
I have always been puzzled by the Marxist concept of wealth should be proportional to the amount of work you do. If I spend a year’s worth of labor whittling a box of toothpicks from a tree with a pocketknife, am I entitled to charge and receive, say, the median yearly income for that box of toothpicks? Should government force someone to pay that? Or should I just get over the fact that nobody would pay tens of thousands of dollars for a good that can be purchased elsewhere for 39 cents. What’s the difference? The Efficiency of Labor. Working hard is not a means to wealth if what you do is not worth anything of value to someone else or if someone else can do the same job with more efficiency. Like the capitalist’s toothpick factory.
In the case of overpaid CEO’s. Suppose “Bill” of the plumbing department of Home Depot has an idea that would generate an additional 30 percent of sales in a year. Would Home Depot still pay him 10 dollars an hour? Somehow, I think the shareholders would appoint him CEO and increase his salary “17 thousand” times. Why? Because Home Depot’s competitors would love to have “Bill” apply his magic for them - to increase THEIR bottom line by 30 percent. He has value, or more importantly, he has a value that causes a revenue stream to flow. This revenue stream means more money for shareholders, additional employees, new store construction and the jobs created, and better products for the consumer. That is the secret behind wealth. That is why Oprah, Rush, Gates, et al., get paid what they get paid. They are in the middle of a revenue stream that makes other people lots of money. Those who toil in sweatshops or dig ditches do labor that anybody can do (and their salaries are, also, part of a revenue stream). But not everybody can tap a revenue stream.
Of course, all of that is foreign to those protestors at the AIG executive’s houses. They do not understand where wealth comes nor do they see how it benefits them in the long run. They have been successfully propagandized (or is it organized?) by our President that they have been the victims of the Marxist theory of capitalism’s inherent unfairness – the unfairness of not everybody being equally valuable. How else can somebody protest the waste of tax dollars when that person probably does not even pay taxes in the first place?
Todd| 3.25.09 @ 3:34PM
I have ignored you Jeremiah lately but I will call you out on your class warfare rhetoric. Where do you come up with you 15,000 times more number? Do you know what $50,000*15,000 is bozo? It is $750,000,000, I don't know any CEO's who get paid that so get your facts straight ignoramus. Why is okay for Oprah to make a couple hundred million per year but if a CEO of a fortune 500 makes $10 million per year, he is a robber baron and a greedy SOB? How about the fact Judge freaking Judy makes like $30 million per year? I guess that is capitalism for you that so many idiots have nothing better to do than to watch stupid shows like hers but it doesn't make anyone any poorer so good for her and the government will take their nice fat share of that.
The middle class will be getting increasingly squeezed but it won't be because of rich CEO's, it will be due to the robber barons in Congress and The White House who are spending us into oblivion and will ruin the dollar and increase inflation dramatically in a few years time. Not to mention this cap and trade nonsense which will increase the cost of energy to unprecedented levels.
Note for Obama, the government does not "invest", it taxes and spends money inefficiently on everything it does. If he really wanted real investment, he would reduce the 2nd highest corporate tax rate in the World and allow business to invest their own money instead of stealing it for the utopian liberal welfare state that will drag down the standard of living for everyone whether rich, middle class or poor.
Texas Male| 3.25.09 @ 4:06PM
when Bawney Fwank said in a committee hearing to the CEO of AIG that he wanted the names of executives who received bonus money and wouldn't promise their names wouldn't be made public....even after CEO read a letter received threatening the lives of said executives and their families......I KNEW we were being ruled by a ruthless class of anti-capitalist socialists.
This regime is no less ruthless than the Mao and stalin regime and it WILL become apparent soon. Only then it will be too late.
Daniel Stiles| 3.25.09 @ 5:35PM
If the MSM has decided to ignore the protests of conservatives, it means that we need to be more creative. The protests should occur where they cannot be ignored; right outside the newsrooms of major networks in major cities. They should be disruptive and loud.
Ed Wallis| 3.25.09 @ 6:14PM
I find extremely offensive the author's equating violent mob furor of the Leftists with the legal gathering in protest OF and FOR Constitutional rights. Darned lazy thinking, and even worse comparison.
JeffT| 3.25.09 @ 6:21PM
The only gathering that will get the attention of the Kings and Queens (Barney Frank amongst the latter) who reside in Washington is a 1,000,000 man/woman TEA Party affair. Get the busses rolling.
Daphne| 3.26.09 @ 12:14AM
I'll be there--and there will be many more than a million others standing with me. LOL--Barney Frank is a most disgusting old Queen.
JHarp| 3.26.09 @ 12:19AM
I just love it that a marxist, snot-nosed loser has decided that wealth disparity in the U.S. must be resolved, and he is the one to do it. Well, who the hell are you? Still doesn't get the Golden Egg principle--everyone will lose. Stupid marxist libtards.
1Freeman| 3.26.09 @ 11:22AM
I see the liberal troll Jeremiah is back spouting lies again.
New readers: ignore the attempt of this troll in sounding like he is either credible or schooled. He is a "pot stirring liberal" here to misinform and incite always trying to misdirect the posts and intent of the article.
When cornered like a rat he will stop posting his lies on that article and go hunting for the next story to misdirect. Give him no mind.
Douglas Skinner| 3.26.09 @ 1:06PM
Hank Archer--
I agree with you completely. Sometimes it's necessary to answer an absurdity with an absurdity.
Shoot Them First| 3.26.09 @ 1:23PM
James Wilson wrote: "They are not afraid us anymore, nor of you. This is not working. "
You are correct, sir. We need to change that.