After four years, all you have to boast about is making one
decision that anyone would have made and saving a few union jobs at taxpayer
expense. Pretty sad in my view.
The President said business owners "did not build that,
somebody else did that". Media pundits point to the infrastructure such as
roads and bridges as the reason business were successful. What is wrong with
that argument is simple. Government is nothing more than the vehicle used by
the people to facilitate common goals. It is taxpayers and bond holders who
build infrastructure. It is reminiscing of the chicken and egg argument, which
came first? When Henry Ford and others started building cars, people wanted
them and roads to drive them on. So the taxpayers supported road building. Car companies
were not successful because of roads, roads where build because cars became
something people wanted and more and more were becoming affordable.
Let’s consider where the funds necessary to build roads,
bridges and other public projects come from. In large part, the money comes
from fuel taxes paid for by individual and companies and highway use tax paid
by trucking companies. Government only
collected the tax and funded projects that the people wanted and was
willing to support with their tax
dollars. On another note: I noticed
today when I filled up my car that 51.8 cents was the amount of tax paid on
each gallon of gas. At $3.46/gal, that
equates to approximately 15% in tax on each gallon. Compare that to the $.08
cent per gallon reported by various media outlets as being the profit oil
companies make on each gallon for which they are chastised by politicians and
the media.
The President and supporters point to the auto industry as
an example of how government intervention saved the industry. The President
said it is roaring back. What they don’t tell you is that current GM is a brand new company
that was given the valuable assets of the old GM while the non-performing
assets and debt were left in the old GM where stock holders and creditor got swindled
out of their investments. In the end, the real reason GM got in trouble to start with has not been addressed. GM problems were easy to
understand, their cost was too high and the cars are priced too high for
consumers. The only ones to benefit from
the GM fiasco is the union workers. The consumers is expected to continue
buying overpriced cars or GM will fail again.
As to the President’s comments on "shared
prosperity", how does that work? It’s obvious that he is talking about
redistribution. The constitution offers each the same opportunity to pursue happiness. It does not guarantee it.
Each of us is free to pursue whatever
dreams one can conjure up. The
opportunity to be all we can be and accomplish all that we can through legal
and moral means should never be punished or frowned upon, and those who do
achieve should never be penalized for being successful.
The other crowning achievement we heard much about during
the DNC convention was Bin Laden is dead. Let’s be real, the military sought
out and killed him. That simple. The President simply approved the action based
on recommendations from military leaders. Anyone in the same position would have done
the same as the President did. In fact, I would suggest that if he did not
approve the mission, he should be impeached. Although his part was small. He
did his job on this one. So what?
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