This is purely an observation, but liberals seem to be rather unhappy. I was almost run over in the grocery store parking lot last evening by an overweight woman driving a Korean car with an Obama/Biden bumper sticker. When I raised my arms as if to say, “hey, I have the right-of-way,” she flipped me off. Support the unions but drive foreign, I say. I don’t support the unions and I drive a Saturn. Hybrid, even.
Last summer I was in Chicago walking from the Navy Pier back to my hotel on Michigan Avenue when I was approached by college kid who asked if I would donate to help support the Obama campaign. I asked him why he supports Obama and he said that Obama would help students like him afford college.
I told him that I worked and took out loans to help me get through my undergrad and post-grad studies, plus I got some grants that helped pay for ramen and macaroni and cheese. Grants wouldn’t do much he went on to say, because he is attending a school back east and it was rather expensive.
When I suggested he attend a State school instead of a private, liberal arts college, he told me to expletive off.
A friend on Facebook just posted: To all the youth who can not seem to find their way to remove their hat or stop talking during the national anthem, remember, it’s my husband who is out there fighting so you can be disrespectful!!!
Our freedom is not free, people. College hipsters in Berkeley can sport a Che Guevara t-shirt around campus, but I doubt a Cuban student can wear a JFK tank top around town. He’d likely get a stiff reprimand.
Sean Penn and Danny Glover can pimp for Hugo Chavez because that is their right as Americans, but Jose Venezuelan with a Reagan Rocks headband may come into some difficulty with local law enforcement.
Bosom buddies - Glover and Chavez
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Please Mr. President Raise My Taxes
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011Please, Mr. President, raise my taxes so you don’t have to cut entitlements, pensions or waste.
Please raise my taxes so we can continue to send aid checks to countries that hate us.
Please raise my taxes so we can create new government agencies that give jobs and pensions to people who accomplish nothing.
Please raise my taxes so we can pay college tuition for illegal immigrants.
Please raise my taxes so we can pay for medical expenses of family members of non-citizens who can sponsor their parents even though they only hold a green card.
Please raise my taxes so we can continue paying welfare to people who have cashed checks for decades without ever looking for a job.
Please raise my taxes so we can cover growing pension payments for every government aide that has graced the land of the free and home of the brave.
Please raise my taxes so we subsidize corn farmers so we can make ethanol. Never mind that it costs $5.00 per gallon to produce and sells for $3.00.
Please raise my taxes so we can fund another Solyndra.
Doug Edwards, a former Google tech-millionaire, and Obama supporter was apparently OK’d to get up and ask Mr. Obama to raise his taxes, while speaking at a townhall meeting at LinkedIn.com. Since raising taxes has been one of Obama’s goals since he has been in office, and since Edwards has donated large sums of money to Democratic causes in the past, it would not be surprising if he approached the Obama team to pre-qualify the question knowing full well the sound-bite press coverage it would get.
Again, instead of raising taxes for anyone, let’s cut the fat, and let’s start with pensions. I challenge a politician, particularly a Republican politician to announce for the record they will forgo their pension once retired and then have them challenge others and see if it gains any traction.
Tags: doug edwards, entitlements, google, linkedin, mr president, obama, pensions, raise my taxes, solyndra, town hall meeting foreign aid
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