Excerpts from NEAL'S NUZE
July 8, 1999
By Neal Boortz
THAT MONEY COULD BE SPENT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL RUN
Just remember, folks. All that money Hillary is gathering in donation-rich New York? She doesn't HAVE to spend it on a Senatorial race. She can save it and use it to run for President in four years. Or next year, for that matter, if Al Gore dissolves into a quivering heap of splinters.
WEALTH-BASHING, AGAIN
House Republicans announced yesterday that they'd like to cut the top capital-gains tax from 20 percent to 15 percent. Almost immediately, the bash-the-rich mentality of the left reared its head. White House spokesmen were whining "This is a risky, costly scheme that would skew the benefits away from the average American and tilt them towards the wealthiest in our society"
Odd, isn't it. It's OK to skew the taxes away from the average American and towards the wealthiest (remember, the top 1% of income earners earn about 16% of the income but they pay 33% of the taxes). But it's not OK to skew tax breaks to the people paying most of the taxes.
In a CNBC interview, Bill Clinton said, "We ought to think about first things first. If we take this country out of debt for the first time since 1835, then average people are going to have more money in their pockets than if we keep the country in debt and give them a tax cut now because we've got an election in a year and a half."
Sorry, Slick Willie. Take a look at our debt figures. We go $250 deeper in debt every single day --- in spite of your phony claims of a "surplus. Also ... quit pointing the finger at the Republicans for trying to gather voter support before the 2000 election. That's exactly what you're trying to do by pushing "Medicare reform" and offering to pay for bluehairs' prescription drugs. How the hell does reforming Social Security put the average people in a better financial position than a tax cut?
Income redistribution, folks. That's the name of the game. Demonize the rich, then take their money and buy votes from the "less fortunate."
TRASHING GEORGE W. AGAIN
Now he's a racist. Today, George W. Bush will make campaign appearances in
Seattle, Wash., but doesn't plan to show up to address a conference of 6,000 minority journalists that's also being held in the city.
How DARE Dubya not visit these minority journlists? Doesn't (don't) he realize that these aren't just ordinary run-of-the-mill reporters? Why, they're part of our great, exhalted, protected, special, pure, saintly MINORITY class! They are there to be paid HOMAGE to, not to be ignored! This horrible snub just has to be a symbol of Dubya's deep-seated racism. Typical.
Next thing you know Bush is going to visit a city that hasn't named a street after Martin Luther King.
Someone needs to keep an eye on this man.
WOWING THE UNWASHED
Hillary's "I Love New York" tour rolled into Oneonta yesterday, where she worked on wooing the people most likely to fall for her particular brand of campaign schmaltz.
One man, Kevin Hodne, said he was "so disgusted with downstate Democrats and their disregard for the agriculture economy" that he likes the fact that Hillary Rodham is taking the time to visit and "listen to upstate concerns." Maybe she can give Kevin a lesson in investing in cattle futures.
At a roundtable discussion with educators and local politicians, Hillary impressed the crowd by taking notes with a red-capped pen. Look everyone! She ‘s taking notes! My God! She's actually taking notes! Look, She's listening!
Proving her unbreakable bond with the common people, she prepared forall of this campaigning by using the restroom at a rest stop along Interstate 88. Said one gawker: "My God. No way. That's the first lady that's in there?" Yes, and she, too, uses the public facilities! What a woman!
HEY, YOU'RE RICH!
According to Citizens Against Government Waste there are about 21 million married taxpayers who are victims of the marriage tax penalty. These taxpayers pay on the average of $1,400 per year more in federal income taxes than they would if they were single. In some cases the penalty runs as high as $20,000. USA Today recently editorialized against a cut in the marriage penalty. The reason to oppose this cut? Well, because it would be a tax cut for "the rich" naturally! Whatever we do we can't let those evil, nasty, filthy, greedy rich people keep any more of the money they earn! USA Today said that the marriage penalty rarely affects people making over $50,000 a year. So, this means that the editors at USA Today believe that if you are making over $50,000 a year, or $25,001 for the husband and the wife, then you are RICH!
Wow! Aren't you thrilled! You're rich! The reservations number for the Ritz-Carlton Hotels is 800-241-3333.
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE WHAT REPUBLIC?
It seems that someone wrote a book about the rise and fall of a republic. That book contained one of my all-time favorite quotes. Here ‘tis:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, and from dependency back into bondage."
The quote is from historian Alexander Frazier Tyler. He died in 1813, so he could hardly have been writing about the Republic of the United States. Actually, he was writing about Athenian Republic.
Is there one person reading his words who does not see a direct parallel to the United States at the end of the 20th Century? Do we have voters who have discovered that they can use their vote to plunder the pockets of others? You bet you sweet butkus we do. And do we have politicians who know just how to go out there and get those votes? Not only yes, but HELL yes. And what's that about loose fiscal policies? Why, our national debt is increasing by $250 million each and every day, yet our politicians feed us the lie of a balanced budget and even a surplus!
The only debatable issue in Tyler's statement is just what stage we have reached. I think we're in the complacency/apathy stage myself.
I really don't see any turning back.
AND WHILE I'M THROWING QUOTES AROUND
Here's that quote from Teddy Roosevelt in a speech to the Knights of Columbus around the turn of the Century. Evidently some ethnic group had adopted a hyphenated identity and the Rough Rider wasn't amused.
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
This is why you don't hear me using that absurd "African-American" nonsense.
POVERTY TOUR UPDATE
Bill Clinton stopped in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, yesterday, on his "Buy The Vote" tour of the nation's poorest areas. He said, "I sit around in Washington and try to imagine how in the world they make ends meet when nobody has a job. How in the world do you actually pay these bills?"
What a politician. What an schmoozer! Do you think, for one moment, that while he's defiling the Oval Office in Washington, he's actually wondering how the po' pay their bills? Of course not! He's wondering how best to use imaginary budget surpluses to buy votes, and waiting for Eleanor Mondale or some hapless intern to come buy for a smoke. He knows where the money comes from. Don't be fooled.
YOU WANT TO WHAT?
Hope your gag reflex isn't too touchy.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan had something to say about Queen Hillary yesterday. "I hope she will go all the way. I aim to go all the way with her,"
Pickin's must be pretty sparse in that part of the State.
EAVESDROPPING ON YOUR PAGER
In the name of curbing youth violence, Congress is considering legislation that would approve police surveillance of numeric pager data without the need for a warrant or a wiretap order. This would mean that government agents would be able to get a list of all pages that appear on your pager. All of the phone numbers of the people who want you to call them. All of this without a warrant or a wiretap order.
When are we going to stand up to this?
By the way, this is NOT something that the Justice Department has called for. In fact, a letter from the DOJ Office of Legislative Affairs said "We are unaware of any law enforcement need for such authorization and believe that the proposal is unwise as a policy matter. The bill also raises significant constitutional concerns under the Fourth Amendment.
Just some renegade in congress wanting to get his name in the media by introducing a controversial bill?
DEPRESSING THOUGHT OF THE DAY
You think that Americans are generally ill informed? Are you surprised that only a small fraction of Americans could name their Congressman and the two U.S. Senators from their State?
Well, hold on. You are about to be more depressed than you were.
According to a new Gallup poll, 20 percent of Americans actually think the sun revolves around the earth. Only 76 percent know what country the original U.S. colonies won their independence from.
Mama!
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