Which means that we have to stuff a flux capacitor into a Firebird rather than a DeLorean — but that we’ll still have to stomach a lot of Yes and Chicago. I guess is the point.
[…] what Obama is really saying is this: “Let’s go back to the 1970s.” It was a Golden Age of Equality, with the top 1 percent’s share of national income at its lowest level of the 20th century. And the nostalgia surely doesn’t stop there. It was also a time of strong unions, expensive oil, regulated industry and high tax rates. This is exactly the Obamacrat agenda. Of course, the 1970s were also a time of economic chaos and stagflation that led voters in 1980 to reject Jimmy Carter by a crushing landslide. Yet Obama wants give that formula another shot.
[…] Back during the success-punishing 1970s, the top marginal tax rate was 70 percent. And guess what? Liberal economists such as Paul Krugman, Brad Delong and Peter Diamond — whose nomination by Obama to the Federal Reserve thankfully failed in the Senate — think the top tax rate should zoom back there again. More evidence that Clintonomics is dead in today’s Democratic party. Then again, Obama, like many Democrats, never thought the Reagan tax cuts made much sense. As Obama wrote in “The Audacity of Hope: “The high marginal tax rates that existed when Reagan took office may not have curbed incentives to work or invest … but they did lead to a wasteful industry of setting up tax shelters.” So the only downside was excessive tax planning?
[…] Here is the real record of cutting taxes and regulation: The U.S. economy grew at an average pace of 3.3 percent from 1983-2007, inflation — the scourge of the 1970s — was slayed, and the stock market rose by 1,400 percent. Median middle-class incomes rose by roughly 50 percent. (These numbers are even more impressive when you recall that heading in the 1980s, experts were predicting a dystopian, Solyent Greenesque, Age of Limits future for America.) Obama would be lucky to fail like this.
Sure, median middle-class income exploded. But still, others had more — and that’s what the income inequality argument is all about: taking what others have and spreading it out evenly, even if that means we wreck the very process that allowed for that 50% real wealth increase.
The left wants us to envy the wealth of others rather than embrace the fruits of wealth production itself — by way of a proven economic system that raises the standard of living for even those at the bottom of the “income disparity” scale such that our poor mirror much of the world’s “rich” (they have cars, DVD players, computers, flat screen tvs, shelter, food, etc.).
And it’s all so they — rather than a disinterested and organic free market — can direct wealth. The free market system takes away the power of the central planner. Which is why the central planner has to kill the free market system to consolidate power.
That they use class warfare and emotional sophistry to gin up outrage in those their institutions have trained to be useful idiots is not surprising. But surprising or not, the totalitarian impulse must nevertheless be identified, illuminated, and soundly defeated — each and every time it rears its fork-tongued face.
To borrow from that great freedom fighter, Kyle Reese, “Listen, and understand. [Socialist Utopianism] is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. [Or at the very least, it’s made you it’s worker bitch].
Deontology sucks and blows, categorically, at one and the same time. Question is, how in the hell did it ever get to this point? Was there ever a simply necessary point for it? Or was it just a matter of some mind’s undirected hubristic wandering in God’s green garden?
This is some more of that Hopenchange we were promised, isn’t it?
Well sure — back then the right people weren’t in charge yet. They truly are the ones they’ve been waiting for.
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The Trammps – Disco Inferno
not all that surprising really Doug
mr jeff might like this
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Deontology sucks and blows, categorically, at one and the same time.
Wait — are you talking about the study of Runaround Sue?
He posts now at the Belmont Club I’ve heard.
Not everything in the 70’s was bad. We might just need more marbles.
Richard Epstein: Why progressive policies always fail
what’s the ’70’s without renewable energy
Wind turbine bursts into flames as hurricane-force winds hit Scotland
I don’t want to do the 7o’s over again.
High school wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
It crept, as evil often does. Remember when it was shameful to be on the dole? It wasn’t that long ago. Now it’s a birthright and a multi-generational way of life. And slavery is freedom.
Tonight on TVLand:
That ’70s Administration, followed by Welcome Back, Carter
my allah baracky lites up all the hanukkah candles in one night
http://www.drudgereport.com/
go barry
the obamawhore associated press missed that detail
Why would he do this? It’s stupid, even for him. I guess he expects to be golfing in Hawaii on the 20th.
here’s the pic
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Cripes. That’s bad. I’m insulted and I’m not even Jewish.
Is he that stupid or just that mean-spirited?
maybe he wanted to roast some cocktail wienies and didn’t want to have to do em one at a time
Next year he is planning to celebrate the 4th of July on May 1st.
well it kinda fits
Republicans Demand Obama Fire Ambassador to Belgium Over Comments on Anti-Semitism
Is there no one with a protocol clue in this White House? I know they replaced this silly bint with this silly fundraising bint. Is that all we’ve got?
Julianna Smoot took a powder a while back, Pablo. Doesn’t the White House have a whole Office of Protocol? With a staff and everything or was that just a Goldie Hawn movie?
i think its this guy doing protocol though i have no video
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so it’s not like he’s never encountered the fucking concept
Well, he certainly has the credentials, eh?
The first couple piss me off. They are always putting their grubby paws on dignitaries and doing stupid shit like hugging the Queen! That used to be a hanging offense. Not only did Mitchel hug the Queen, she wore a hideous argyle sweater to meet her. Anyone else not too surprised that they weren’t invited to the Royal Wedding?
“During the week of Kwanzaa, a new candle is lit on the kinara each day.”
a fake celebration by commies stealing jew stuff. hopeandchange!
man I hate commies
Oh noes! It’s all a fake!
you’re not supposed to torture black women
it’s in the constitution
It sure sounds hate crime-y. I bet there’s extra jailtime involved.
it give me the heebie jeebies just thinking on it
oh well happy kwanzaa everybody!
James Taranto takes a look at the extent (and rapidity) of the change of views toward Israel and the Jews in the Democrats today, comparing them to holding Pat Buchanan-like views from the ’90s. Older, mainstay Democrats like Joe Lieberman (a fecking Democrat candidate for Vice-President only a decade ago) for one among many, must feel particularly disoriented.
someone had stats the other day on how many jews the dumb fuck had alienated
I’ve never seen anything like it. From the Civil Rights era to this in just 50 years? It’s unsettling, to say the least.
he’s lost 1/3 of those jewish peoples what used to approve of his dipshit marxist ass
we can get along: ronpaul and baracky
Thing about those Democrats like Lieberman, they don’t have any better idea what to do about the socialist takeover of their party than the sitting Republicans do. Which is to say, like, none. All them motherfuckers are philosophically lost, without a clue.
Well, sdferr, they are all a bunch of nutless wonders, and I’m not just talking about the women. One of those pukes needs to be the voice in the wilderness, standing up and saying “Hold it just a damned minute!”
the Democrats tried to kick Lieberman’s enitrely-too-jewish ass out of Congress and National Soros Radio cheered the whole sick hate campaign on from the sidelines
*entirely*
The NY Times did a bunch of profiles in courage type articles about Lieberman and his staunchiness about his faith. Pictures of him walking on the Sabbath. Pictures of him in a yarmulke. A profile of his (second) wife, Hadassah. There was a little bit of a “not our kind of people” undertone to it all, though.
i “want” baracky’s national socialism. it comes with unicorns.
Not for the likes of us it doesn’;t, nr. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, a’nat.
Us, we get errant semicolons.
i think i might take the train to beck’s 7/28/12 gig. for the prerevolution vibe.
Strangest thing about it is, there simply isn’t all that far to look for an answer. And yet, it’s as if they can’t find their own ass with the two hands God gave them.
damn semicolons
it wasn;t like this when Bush was president
oh my andy
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For real. Bush was like a trusty sheepdog keeping us safe from terrorists and semicolons.
i hope rick s. “santorums” the gay peeps
Donald Trump should’ve paced himself more better with respect to how he used his fifteen minutes
rick should just give it up we’ve never ever had a president with an icky last name
Rick is so desperate for attention. I bet he’d jump rope on stage if The Donald made it a debate requirement.
we be santorum the baracky and the gay peeps
santorum the commie bastards
take the progg’s sh@t and stick it in their idiot faces.
all the kerfuffle about how tacky Donald is has done a lot to gloss over that he’s partnering with… Newsmax
Newsmax.
Yes. Newsmax.
I thought Donald was more a World Net Daily kinda guy.
rick should just give it up we’ve never ever had a president with an icky last name
Ignoring that bit of retcon-ing, we’ve had two presidents named Bush — which prompted Whoopie Goldberg to talk about her twat, in public.
Ick.
there was a bush in the bible which makes it definitively not-icky
Yuck, John.
santorum the left
speaking of bush
Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 1978
ah the ’70’s
she has a new one I haven’t heard it yet my friend H says she’s gonna try and get me a cd off the street team that’s been working it
Ick. Wouldn’t want to get any of that on you. Especially if you’re Dan Savage.
oh and this one
Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
kinda funny that kate bush and ronald reagan and steve jobs were on the same plane circa “78-“81
what does that even mean… #1 site?
this [PDF] study uses the more-accepted Comscore numbers and they show that the site with the greatest % conservative audience is Mr. Drudge’s (p. 37)… and as that chart shows, if you’re talking about the site with the greatest conservative reach it’s going to a be a high-traffic site like Yahoo or ESPN
here is a favorite Kate Bush song
look at the end of kate bush’s “running up that hill” with the end of from Flashdance What A Feeling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILWSp0m9G2U. a celebration of individual achievement. sad about this “culture”.
I was one of the first people to say we need to take a look at Santorum. Said it on Twitter, after some debate performance or other.
I was told to get serious. By a chick who is a Romney supporter.
It was ironic.
I still like Bachmann, but Santorum is also quite sincere in his conservatism. He’d Constitution the shit out of some fools. Like a family values Honey Badger.
Pat Benatar does a nice cover of Bush’s Wuthering Heights.
It’s on my iPod.
There’s a load of yucking it up on memeorandum about Rick Perry wearing the exact same jacket Heath Ledger wore in Brokeback Mountain!
How stupid is that? Like Carharrt isn’t worn all over by ranchers and farmers.
I have a Carhartt jacket and I’ve never been buggered. Anecdotal, but there you go.
You and my husband and sons. Come to think of it, my 80 year old dad has one, too.
I’m not seeing a correlation.
“here is a favorite Kate Bush song”
yea don’t know what she be celebrating. superman is there but effin’ commies galore. the ” big psych”
i like the cloudbusting one too where the fascist government destroys her family
Yea, but you don’t wear mom jeans or throw a baseball like a foreigner, either.
Oh that’s not Perry? Never mind.
You know a great Carhartt product? These.
Got them as a present and now I wear the hell out of them during the winter. Practically snow pants and the zippers make winter boots easy to tuck under.
i don’t dance with commies, fascist, low rent acorn activists et al. what’s with the guacamole?
Carhartt wears like iron. You’ll still have them 20 years from now.
It’s true, even with the weld-spatter.
Bunch of wussies. Takes a REAL Islamicist to show you how celebrating’s supposed to be done.
my allah peeps: baracky wants to do national socialism
So now we let one progressive socialist with an obsession, decide whether someone is qualified to run for President? We’re to let one Savage be determinative? Fuck that shit. Next thing Randomnymouses will be picking all candidates from all Parties.
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we need a christmas recipe? hf?
President Ronald Reagan – Liberty State Park
christmas recipe!
I’m doing my first christmas thing this saturday but they’re all a bunch of fitties so I’m stumped what to do so far… I’m thinking of maybe just getting spicy tuna rolls and then just a big thing of the cocktail shrimp from ralphs… and then for beverages I’ll just have bottled waters in a bucket and some red wine… and then I’ll be ready to go on coffee with skim milk – I’m not even gonna bother with the low cal creamer stuff
and then just in case after that I’ll have a cheese plate standing by with some of that quince wine
kate bush be fatty like chris donuts
kate is rich rich rich but not as rich as romney
Our esteemed host wrote:
But can you prove that? I mean, surely even the appearance of impropriety is enough to raise serious questions on this subject.
Further, it might be noted that all you have denied is being a bottom; how are we to know you aren’t a top? The fact that your denial of such activity was extremely limited should also raise questions. It’s a good thing you aren’t running for President!
There’s a load of yucking it up on memeorandum about Rick Perry wearing the exact same jacket Heath Ledger wore in Brokeback Mountain!
Just shows them for the fools they are. Carhartts are practically the daily uniform of a large percentage of men living outside of Detroit here in Michigan.
But keep it up. I can hear people changing the channel.
How stupid is that? Like Carharrt isn’t worn all over by ranchers and farmers.
I suppose it’s easier than noting that Perry has the same jacket that a lot of left wing pussies wear ironically. The contrast between a bunch of twats who couldn’t screw in a lightbulb without electrocuting themselves and a guy who can actually work with his hands would just be too painful for them. So, yeah, go with the movie character.
Abe, they don’t know any of “those” guys.
I’m guessing Perry wears Carhartt better the Mitt Romney. Romney seems more of a North Face or Columbia guy.
From Santorum’s statement:
I’m guessing just a bit more in common with the audience as well.
I hope Bachmann debates too. It’d be nice to see a serious debate among conservatives* for once.
*Well, two conservatives and one haphazard conservative. debauched by too many years in the D.C. whorehouse.
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Abe, they don’t know any of “those” guys.
Nonsense. Most of them have a brother or father or uncle who has grease under his nails. They just don’t talk about him. (It’s even worse if he goes to church on Sundays.)