Hate The Rich

The Cedar Rapids Gazette had an online poll question:  Should unemployment benefits be extended?  Naturally, the newspaper doesn't bother to explain any of the details here.  Are we talking beyond 99 weeks?  How about extending them forever?  Who knows.

Does the Gazette explain that as of May 20, 2010, 32 states and the Virgin Islands have borrowed from the Federal Government to make unemployment benefit payments?  Hell no!  Why bother mentioning that little factoid?  It's better to keep everybody stupid and at each others' throats over hating the rich!

And hating the rich seems to be something that commenter "Lori Morris" comes back to in the comments of this story.  Here is a look into the mind of a liberal/statist idiot:

I will say this: it is hypocritical for those who say extended unemployment should be funded if passed to turn around and say it was okay to pass two wars, Medicare Part D and tax cuts for the wealthy, all unfunded. The tax cuts for the top earners need to expire as well because it’s equally hypocritical to hand over a tax cut to those who don’t need it but deny needed funds to meet basic day to day needs for those out of work long term.

If "Lori Morris" had written this in 2006, she might have a little bit of leg to stand on, except for the "tax cuts for the wealthy" bullshit. Lori Morris completely ignores how much debt Obama has signed on for in the past 23 months. The first deficit that Obama signed on for was more than all of George W. Bush's deficits combined.  In her mind, Lori Morris the partisan would never ever criticize a Democrat for a drunken spending binge.  Isn't it obvious?  Because of that, Lori Morris is the hypocrite.

After some back-and-forth banter, Morris replies:

The Oedibush tax cuts for the wealthy were unfunded, just like the rest of his major initiatives I’ve mentioned. If the govt can’t come up with a plan to make up for tax revenue it loses when the wealthy gets a tax break then why should it have to all of a sudden fund emergency unemployment benefits for out of work people? The wealthiest INDIVIDUALS can afford to be taxed more–and should be.

Who says when tax rates go down that revenue goes down?  Only a partisan liberal who can't do math.  When LBJ lowered tax rates in the 1960s, did revenue go down?  No.  When the Democratic Congress and President Reagan lowered tax rates in the 1980s did revenue go down?  No.  After Bush 43 got his tax rates enacted, did revenue go down?  No.

Listen, libs, I said REVENUE.  We're talking REVENUE here.  Not total spending.  I know those two concepts are confusing to you, but that's because you're a moron.

Now you install the Obama regime and a spendaholic Democratic Congress threatening tax increases and tremendous regulation and what happens?  Look around.  Companies not hiring, nervousness, unemployment, foreclosures, bailouts, bankruptcies, and endless deficits.

Lori gets in another round later on:

As to your is sue with small busines ses: I’m not a conservative like you obviously are– I’m pro person, not pro corporation and I believe in giving tax breaks to lower income persons who deserve them, not high income individuals who don’t need them.

Lori, you dummy, conservatives, at least fiscal conservatives, are all about the individual. Thomas Jefferson said it best in the Declaration Of Independence:

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Lori, you don't think all Men are created equal. You think the lower income persons are more equal and the rich are jerks who "don't need them".  Some animals are more equal than others, right Lori?  What's the matter with you? Why are you so mentally ill? Why are you living in the United States believing that crap you're spouting? Why don't you move to some place more welcoming of such an attitude, like Cuba, Venezuela, or Zimbabwe?

What do you mean you're not pro-corporation?  What kind of asinine statement is that?  Does that mean you're anti-corporation?  Anti-business?  Where the hell do you think tax money comes from?

People earn their money, fair and square.  Either that, or they're criminals.  What do you think?  That all "rich people" are criminals?  You must!  Those evil rich people, they don't deserve all the money they've made.  Why, the government should just take it, and give it to lower income people!

You're just a commie, Lori Morris.  A Communist.  Admit it!

You statists have a fetish for nothing but big government.  And you don't care whether your politicians tell the truth, keep the checkbook balanced, or live by the same rules as everybody else.  You're all like Tom Harkin, that class envy asshole.  Your days are numbered after the 2010 elections, and especially after the 2012 elections.  Same with spendaholics like Chuck Grassley, the fraud.  Yes, I know Chuck Grassley was re-elected and will be until he poops into his diaper for the very last time because that's how Iowa does things.  Other states are electing politicians who are at least talking about doing the right thing.  The Harkins will die off with their dirty oil money well-protected in secret offshore accounts free of estate taxes, and the Grassleys of the world will be marginalized.  Maybe we'll get a better class of idiot going to Washington to ruin things in the future.  Who knows.

For now, we have to keep fighting and punching back at these pricks like Lori Morris who know nothing and spout bullshit.  Looks like there's a couple of Gazette readers who don't mind trying to educate these dummies.  Good luck to you all.  It's an impossible task.  Just remember, there's very few of them.