Excerpts from NEALZ NUZE
Wednesday, June 23, 1999
IT'S AMAZING HOW WELL THIS SCAM WORKED
I'm talking about the "government shutdown" scam.
There's a story in today's Washington Post about George W. Bush. (I call him "Dubya" here.) The story asks the question of whether or not Dubya can get the support of congressional Republicans without taking on all of their baggage. What baggage? Well, according to the Post, that baggage would be the " ... legacy of impeachment, former Speaker Newt Gingrich and a government shutdown."
Just why is the impeachment Republican baggage? Are the Republicans the ones who lied under oath and obstructed justice?
And what's this about the government shutdown? Do you folks remember how this whole think came down? No? Well, here's how it worked. The Republicans passed an appropriations bill and sent it to the White House. Clinton refused to sign it. The Republicans said, "Fine. While we work this out we'll pass a Continuing Resolution to keep funding these areas of government until we straighten out our differences." Clinton said he would veto that too. So --- due entirely to Clinton's veto, some government agencies had to shut down non-essential agencies.
Clinton then went into action. He started blaming the Republicans for the shutdown. The press bit and went along with Clinton's spin. Clinton's staff then met with some government employee union leaders. They were told to get their people out there in front of the cameras complaining about how they couldn't afford Christmas for their children because of the Republicans shutting down the government. The press bit on this too. Finally, the American people bought the big lie in its entirety. The shutdown became the Republican's fault.
Amazing, isn't it? How can you fight a socialist, dishonest President when the press acts as his public relations arm?
MORE ON BILL PRESS OF CROSSFIRE
I think I've changed my mind a bit on Bill Press – the liberal commentator on CNN's Crossfire.
Yes, I still think he's about as intellectually lame as you can get. He could quite possibly lose in intellectual combat with an average seventh grader.
Yesterday I expressed a longing for the days of Michael Kinsley. At least he presented his leftist ideas in a comprehensible manner. I wish to retract, though, my suggestion that the producers of Crossfire look for a better spokesman for the left. The hallmark of liberalism is it's inability to recognize the rights of individuals and the stark lack of logical thought processes. I can think of no liberal, save for Tom Teepen (who would just not work on television) who embodies these liberal traits more than Bill Press. All conservatives and libertarians should pray that Press remain just where he is --- right there on CNN every single night embarrassing the left.
I took a look at the transcript for Tuesday night's Crossfire and found a few Press quotes that you might enjoy. The subject was all of those evil, nasty millionaires and billionaires out there. Press want's something done. Read on a get a bit of a chuckle. Press quotes in italics. My smart-ass remarks follow:
"Have we reached the point where some people are making too much money? Should they be required to give more to charity? Or even to taxes? "
Right, Bill. And just who is it that is going to determine just when a person is making too much money? The government? What sort of an agency are we going to set up to make that determination? What will we call it? And when this agency determines just how much is too much, who is going to determine what charity will get the overage? Is this your idea of freedom?
" ... as you well know, the number of poor in this country remains unchanged, still about 36 and one-half million poor people in this country. Isn't there something wrong with this picture?"
Who says there are 36 and one-half poor people in this country? The government? Well, under government poverty standards you could live in a one million dollar house, have a garage full of $100,000 cars and $15 million in a checking account and still be officially defined by the government as "living in poverty." Did you know that, Mr. Press?
"Here are these guys walking around with more money than they can possibly spend. They'd have to stay up all day and night trying to figure out how to spend that much money. Why aren't they giving more? And if they're not, maybe they should be required to give more?"
This is why you'll never be, as you say it, "obscenely rich," Press. You have this idiotic idea that rich people need or want to spend all of the money they have. This "more money than they can possibly spend" nonsense comes right out of Marx's "to each according to their needs" doctrine. This may come as a shock to you, Bill, but wealthy people don't feel the need to spend every penny they earn. There's something out there called "investing." They invest in real estate projects. They buy stocks and bonds. They buy or begin new businesses. All of these activities create jobs and drive our economy. Gawd, what an idiot you are.
" ... if people are disproportionately rich, shouldn't they .... be asked to give disproportionately more to the government that gives us this opportunity to get rich and protects their property, by the way?"
Damn, Bill. You just don't know when to quit, do you? Again, just how do you determine when a person has earned "disproportionately more" than someone else? Where in our laws does it set up a standard of proportions on what people may earn? Oh, and by the way. The wealthy already pay a disproportionate amount of taxes. The top one percent of income earners – earning about $200,000 per year and up – earn about 16 percent of the total income, yet they pay 33 percent of the income taxes. If you were as interested in facts as you are in emotional argumentation you would have already known this. Oh, and what's this crap about "the government that gives us this opportunity to get rich"? Do you mean to say that our freedoms are a gift from government? Golly! And all this time I had this outdated idea that our rights to life, liberty and freedom were actually the rights that we created government to protect! Imagine my surprise after you informed me that these rights actually flow to me from government! I guess whatever the government gives, it can also take away, right?
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