What a friend of mine on the far right (and truly, NOT a common sense guy) posted on his facebook. He hates Obama. Some points are valid ...perhaps number 2 is a tad bit racist ...but even though I think there are arguments to be made against each of these statements, I will give him his due on them on face value. This blog is, after all, about common sense.
10 Political and Economic Imponderables that should Drive Every American Crazy
1. Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich, at a $40,000-a-plate campaign fund raising event.
2. Only in America could people claim that the government still
discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a
black Attorney General and a federal workforce that is roughly 18% black
when entire the black population is only 12%.
3. Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible
for our tax code — Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department
and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee — turn out
to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
4. Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name
of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims
might be upset by the backlash.
5. Only in
America would we make people who, want to legally become American
citizens, wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of
thousands of dollars for the privilege, while we discuss letting anyone
who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.
6. Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the
budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as
“extremists.”
7. Only in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
8. Only in America could people demand the government investigate
whether oil companies are gouging the public - because the price of gas
went up - when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company
(Marathon Oil) is less than half of what a company that manufactures
sports shoes and apparel overseas (Nike) makes.
9. Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars
from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a
trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending ($7
million PER MINUTE), and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough
money.
10. Only in America could the rich
people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying
their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.
1. Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich, at a $40,000-a-plate campaign fund raising event.
2. Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General and a federal workforce that is roughly 18% black when entire the black population is only 12%.
3. Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code — Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee — turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
4. Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be upset by the backlash.
5. Only in America would we make people who, want to legally become American citizens, wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.
6. Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”
7. Only in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
8. Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public - because the price of gas went up - when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of what a company that manufactures sports shoes and apparel overseas (Nike) makes.
9. Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending ($7 million PER MINUTE), and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.
10. Only in America could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.
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