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"A message to the rich" by Bill Whittle

This message/essay was posted on April 06th 2009 on pjmedia.com. I couldn't find the link on pjmedia website, so I had to borrow it from here 
I have to say loud and clear, Bill Whittle is my hero! In light of today's news, this essay is more powerful than ever!

A MESSAGE TO THE RICH

 The Washington Post ran a column a few days ago, in which a Mr. Joel Berg applauds the Obama Administration for reducing the amount of charitable deduction that The Rich are allowed to take when they write a check to charity.

Mr. Berg – who runs a charitable foundation that feeds the poor — explains things for us thusly: 

 “…It is wrong to give them [the very rich] unilateral power to decide whether their taxpayer-subsidized donations should go to, say, well-heeled operas or lavish care of pets rather than to organizations that meet more pressing communal needs.”

Mr. Berg lists two specific ways in which The Rich have been Letting Down the Team – again.

“First,” he writes, “such tax deductions are a highly inefficient way to fund social programs.” Got that? He continues:  “Second, voluntary private charity is a less equitable way to solve community problems.”

See the problem here?

“When the wealthiest Americans donate to charities,” writes Berg, “they are most likely to give to universities, hospitals and cultural institutions from which they and their families may benefit.”

The filthy swine!

The answer is simple. Don’t let The Rich have a big deduction on charitable giving, since they will donate to stupid things like the Arts or medical centers, instead of those charities doing important things – like Mr. Berg’s.

No sir! The answer is clear: simply tax them more.

“Combined with other progressive Obama tax proposals, that change would not only start to redress the inequality gap that has engulfed America in recent decades but would also help to pay for many effective domestic programs…”

 …Which Mr. Berg then helpfully goes on to list.

Well, I read this article in the Washington Post, and I thought: there you have it. The top ten percent, that pays sixty percent of the total income tax and which allows the bottom half – HALF! – to pay nothing… Those horrible, greedy bastards are not using their free-will generosity as “efficiently” as the government can, so let’s just take more of their money and call it square.

So let me now send a personal message to The Rich in America…

As an American and a patriot, I implore you – I go to my knees and beg you – LEAVE NOW.

Leave. Just go away. Retire to the Cayman Islands or Bermuda or wherever, but do it now, please, while you still have some love for this country. Close your companies, fire your employees, shutter your factories and offices, sell your property, and take all of that somewhere else… better yet: somewhere scenic but poverty-stricken. Somewhere that could use some wealth creation. Somewhere that people simply are grateful to have a job in the first place. Somewhere where you will be appreciated.

You are not welcome in America any more. Take your wealth and prosperity and inventiveness and hard work and vision and insight and bold risk-taking and joy in seeing growth and wealth creation and just go away – right now, before it’s too late. Because if you stay, Joel Berg and Barack Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd will continue to come after you for more and more and more and they will not ever stop – notever – until you are forced to flee. And when that day comes, you will go with not with fond remembrances and a desire to return home, but rather a black heart and hard and bitter memories.

So on behalf of those few of us who still believe in the Land of Opportunity, I beg you and implore you, in the name of our common patriot ancestors who worked so hard and sacrificed so much so that we could become so spoiled and ungrateful: take your 60% of the total income taxes and just go away.

Because if you do, then there will no longer be an Enemy for the Left to stick it to. Then, perhaps, the half of the country that pays no income tax might have to put some skin in the game. Then, perhaps, with most of the wealth generation gone we will turn to our community organizers to provide the wealth creation, and the tax dollars, and the innovation. When you have gone the President of the United States, supported by an army of little acorns like Joel Berg, will have to start calling for the rest of us to be taxed more to address the inequality gap.

That’s what I want.

You see, I’ve actually been there. I have experienced this pathology from the inside.

There was a time, in my twenties, when I was very poor. I have sat silent in an apartment, shades drawn, silently waiting for the loud knocking of the landlord to go away. I have borrowed enough money to have to decide whether or not to restore the electricity, or the telephone. (And by the way, that decision is a no-brainer.) I have been that broke long enough to realize something about myself.

I was living off of the charity of friends. The charity of friends – do I make myself clear? I never applied for welfare or food stamps because – silly me – I thought that was for people who really needed it. 

After a year or two being constantly bailed out by my friends – “Wheel-less Whittle” they called me, far more kindly than I deserved – after several years of their largesse, and because my delicate artistic nature prevented me from getting any number of the actual paying jobs I could have landed in a half-hour – I began to get angry with them, especially my best friend, Fritz. Yes, he bought me lunch and dinner and drove me everywhere.  Yes, he helped cover my electric bills and rent. But he was making out like a bandit: he was a successful commercial actor in Miami, making over a hundred grand a year.

And so I stopped looking at what he did for me, and started looking at what he could do, but didn’t. I went to him with a plan for him to pay my entire rent and expenses. He refused, the miserable selfish bastard. Not because he couldn’t afford it, mind you, but because he was getting really worried about me and thought it would – get this, Mr. Berg! – do me harm.

And I was furious. Furious. For two weeks I hated him with a white-hot rage.

That is the pathology – that is the sickness – that dependency breeds: resentment and hostility to those that help you the most.

And I will add one thing to this story, if only to cover the shame of me dredging it up for you to see: I fought this dependency cycle for most of my middle life. I lived in his garage for a while. And then, finally, I couldn’t take it anymore and I went out and found a job. Actually, his wife got it for me. But I took it. By some unknown action of grace or luck my new employer advanced me $300 and I bought a used bike and rented a dirty room in a cheap motel. I rode the bike to work at 5:00 am and put in several hours on a second project, and then would stay late after work and put in three or four more. This actually isn’t too hard, when you have nothing to go home to.

I was six weeks in that motel, paying by the week. I had saved enough for an apartment. The first two places I went to turned me down flat. I do not remember what my credit score was, but So Help Me God I do know it was below 350.

Finally I found a place that accepted me based on my pay stubs and the shame written on my face. When the second project finally paid, a few months later, I was able to buy a used car. A year later I used that car to drive 45 miles a day to get a job that paid almost twice as much. I would be so tired, driving home after 11:00 pm, that I remember praying that the car ahead of me was going to my apartment because I was too tired to do anything other than follow him down the 405.

That job led to a better job. That better job led to a better one, and then a better one, then a great job, and that is where I am now. And all my life, from the time I was five, I had always had a single dream: to own my own airplane. I’d like to be able to say I worked hard to achieve that dream for as long as I held it, but that’s just not true. I only started working for it ten years ago. I achieved it in eight.

Needless to say, I’m not one of The Rich that all of this vitriol is aimed at, but the thought occurs to me that if I keep this new attitude up I might become one some day… at which point I can look forward to paying enough to cover the half of the country that pays nothing, and have my charitable efficiency rated by Mr. Berg.

I don’t carry that vitriol myself. I know a few of The Rich. The one I know best I met forty years ago over a breakfast of generic brand breakfast cereal and grey powdered milk. I watched him come up with an idea, shop it around, face failure and go back at it again. I worked for him in the early days.  He was there when I arrived and remained after I left, every single day.  He owns three houses now, and has made all of his employees rich too. When I visit him in these magnificent places, I think back to the two-bedroom house that housed his family of six, and I am curiously enough not filled with rage that someone lives in such a palace. I am, in fact, uplifted and motivated to live in such a place myself. Perhaps I shall, someday. 

Until then, you’ll be happy to know I’m not angry at my friend Fritz any more. I paid back every dime I borrowed, and his money is no good when I am in his company. I am determined that he never pays for another lunch or dinner for the rest of my life or his, whichever comes first.

And I say all of this – all of it – simply because I wake up to discover that in this country today, this better, harder-working, more productive, kinder and happier man I have become is now in thrall to the bitter, angry, ungrateful and despicable adolescent I once was.  Well, that bitterness and envy was powered only by the fact that a better man than I was allowed me to become that way through his kindness, and then forced me to break out of that addiction out of real love for me and fear about what I had become.

So to The Vilified Rich, I beg you now: do for the rest of the country what my friend did for me… do for us what we are incapable of doing for ourselves. Break us of this addiction to the generosity of others. Just go away for a while, voluntarily, and leave the rest of us to look around and wonder where all the money and the jobs went. It will be painful, and it will be bitter, and our rage will be a terrible thing to see. But then, either we will get better, or we won’t. All will depend on whether or not we still feel the shame, and find the courage, to recover for ourselves the mastery over our own lives that once existed for all Americans, before you few despicable rich people came and started paying for more than half of everything. Which, as is obvious now, was not nearly enough.  

If we can break this fever, then you can come back with your jobs and your capital and your vision and your wealth, which was generated by producing something large numbers of people found worth paying for. But go now, while you still love America enough to want to come back some day. Because if you don’t shut this thing down, and soon, the Bergs and Obamas will take and take and take from you until you never want to see this Godforsaken land again.

Will Smith Lectures France about Paying Taxes until Learning of their 75% Rate

Well...I was waiting for a "Holy S**t!!" I guess Will Smith is not moving to France! So much fail...!

Source:Will-Smith-Extolls-Virtues-Of-PayingTaxes-Until-Learning-Of-Their-75-Percent

Be careful how you vote in 2010-The Ant and the Grasshopper (modern version)

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER


This one is a little different... . Two Different Versions.... ......... .... Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy BeingGreen.'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back ofthe grasshopper and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Tax-Day equal Tea Parties

Tax Day este 15 Aprilie,ultima zi in care americanii pot depune Tax Return. Si pentru ca asta este una din probleme actuale in America-cresterea taxelor si felul in care acestea(banii) sunt adminsitrate de catre actuala administratie de la Washington ,americanii au iesit in strada. Asa-numitele Tea-parties ( numele isi are originea in "Partida de ceai de la Boston" din 1773) sunt formate din  americani din clasa de mijloc-deci platitori de taxe ,care sunt impotriva acapararii pietei libere de catre guvern si a incalcarii Constitutiei  prin legile date de acesta.

Washington DC

Statele din US vor da in judecata guvernul federal -legea care socializeaza sistemul de sanatate este neconstitutionala

Nici nu s-a incheiat bine prcesul de votare pentru " healthcare bill",ca incep si procesele. Procurorii generali din cateva state americane,vor da in judecata guvernul federal pentru ca au votat o lege care incalca flagrant Constitutia Statelor Unite.
Virginia
"Virginia will file suit against the federal government charging that the health-care reform legislation is unconstitutional, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s office confirmed last night.

Cuccinelli is expected to argue that the bill, with its mandate that requires nearly every American to be insured by 2014, violates the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. The attorney general’s office will file suit once President Barack Obama signs the bill into law, which could occur early this week."

South Carolina
"After the U.S. House’s historic vote Sunday night passing the health care reform bill, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster issued the following statement:

The health care legislation Congress passed tonight is an assault against the Constitution of the United States. It contains various provisions and federal mandates that are clearly unconstitutional and must not be allowed to stand.
A legal challenge by the States appears to be the only hope of protecting the American people from this unprecedented attack on our system of government. "

Florida
"Moments after Congress voted to approve President Obama’s health care legislation, Florida’s Attorney General announced he will file a lawsuit to declare the bill unconstitutional.

…”The health care reform legislation passed by the U. S. House of Representatives this evening clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state’s sovereignty,” Bill McCollum said in a statement distributed late Sunday night."

Se asteapta ca si alte state sa faca acelasi lucru: Texas, Nebraska, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma si Alabama .

Toata aceasta monstruozitate a fost votata in timp ce pe dealurile Capitoliului zeci de mii de americani demonstrau impotriva acestei legi. Este incredibil cum acest guvern isi voteaza agenda socialista impotriva vointei oamenilor. Dar Noiembrie este dupa colt,si sunt convinsa ca ce s-a intamplat in Massachusetts se va intampla in fiecare stat .
Catve imagini de la demonstratiile anti-Demcare de sambata si duminica:

http://michellemalkin.com/

Canada healthcare vs. US Healthcare-Premierul Williams - din N.L. Canada- s-a operat in US

O noua lovitura pentru democratii din US,care se lupta sa schimbe sistemul de sanatate din US,dintr-unul bazat pe private insurances intr-unul condus de guvern(brrr scary).  Cred ca decizia premierului Williams a mai adaugat niste intrebari pe lista pentru cei care vor sa introduca socialized healthcare in US.. De ce s-a operat premeirul Williams in US?Se zice ca sistemul medical din Canada este cel mai bun cel mai bla-bla bla-bla(BS-uri de stanga) ,iar cel din US trebuie schimbat. Si atunci ce credeti despre gestul premeirului Williams?
Cateva articole despre asta Premierul Williams din N.L. Canada programat la operatie in US si
Premierul Williams se resupereaza dupa operatia de inima din US
P.S. Ca o parere personala,cred ca sistemul medical din US este cel mai bun din toata lumea,calitatea serviciilor fiind cu mult peste orice alt sistem medical din lume.Trebuie umblat la malpractice suits( care ridica pretul malpractice insurances la 6 digits si in consecinta duce pretul serviciilor medicale in sus) si cei neasigurati voluntar (si aici nu vorbesc de milioanele de ilegali care beneficiaza de sistemul medical fara sa plateasca nimik, umfland facturile celor care platesc) .
In cifre proportiile arata cam asa(aproximativ):din 250 milioane de americani,50 milioane nu au asigurare medicala.25 milioane(minim as zice eu) sunt ilegalii.Din cei 25 de milioane ramasi,cca. 15 milioane au acces la asigurare medicala cu costuri minime,dar din diferite motive nu o acceseaza.Si atunci ramane o categorie pentru care musai trebuie sa se faca ceva:cei cu boli cronice.Pentru ei trebuie gasita o solutie. Dar....acum vin si va intreb: de ce trebuie sa se schimbe un sistem care functioneaza pentru mai mult de 80% din populatie? De ce nu se gaseste o solutie pentru cei 20%?

Economia Americii: up or down?

Luna ianaurie este una din lunile cele mai grele pentru toate  companiile,firmele  adika pentru economie in general. Magazinele au cele mai mari "sales" din an ,ceea ce le ajuta cumva sa se mentina pe un trend pozitiv, sau sa "break even(profit zero)". Despre angajari nici nu se poate discuta in aceasta luna,in economia de acum.
Si totusi eu personal am vazut oameni care s-au angajat luna asta. Pentru ca urmaresc anumite site-uri de joburi(deh e bine sa fii tot timpul in cautare de ceva mai bun)pot sa spun ca joburile sunt ceva mai numeroase decat anul trecut in aceeasi perioada,si ca sunt firme care angajeaza . La compania unde lucrez eu(un corporate cu peste 150 de locatii) se fac angajari in continuare. Chiar asa,daca vorbiti engleza la un nivel avansat, aveti skills in vanzari si locuiti undeva aproape de Sherman Oaks,Culver City(in general in LA County) si  aveti nevoie de un job,scrieti-mi. Poate va pot ajuta.
Eu personal SPER ca economia sa-si revina cat mai repede. Si cum California este un barometru pentru USA, SPER sa fim pe trend ascendent.Si daca se va intampla asta curand,nu e pentru ca guvernul de clovni de acum ar fi facut ceva in acest sens.Ci e pentru ca americanii sunt educati in acest spirit,adika sa-si  continue viata si afacerile indiferent de "intemperii".

Europa & USA :Pro si contra valului musulman!

Pornind de la un articol publicat in Evenimentul Zilei ,in care se spune ca Franta se gandeste sa restrictioneze accederea la cetatenia franceza a musulmanilor pe motiv de :
"Vălul care acoperă faţa şi corpul femeilor musulmane nu este binevenit în Franţa. Nu este un însemn religios, este un semn al aservirii, un semn al dispreţului pentru femeie", afirma Sarkozy, în timpul unui discurs ţinut în vară în faţa Parlamentului reunit la Versailles."
Cetăţenia franceză, condiţionată de vălul islamic
si procesul intentat companiei Abercrombie & Fitch de catre o adolescenta de religie musulmana pentru:
"A Muslim teenager hoping to work at one of the company's childrens clothing stores says she was told during an interview that her head scarf, known as a hijab, would violate Abercrombie & Fitch's strict but secretive "Look Policy," which governs everything from dress to the length of one's fingernails"
Lawsuit: Muslim Scarf Not Part of Abercrombie & Fitch 'Look'

ii invit pe cei interesati  la o dezbatere pe aceasta tema.

Desi mi se pare putin deplasat gestul francezilor , totusi sunt total impotriva procesului intentat de catre adolescenta musulmana companiei A& F.  A& F este o companie cunoscuta pentru prezentarile lor nu tocmai pudice,cu modele super sexy si nu foarte imbracate chiar si in magazine.

Ehe..si A&F -ul meu preferat,cel de la "The Grove" -West Hollywood.