The Insanity Of Liberal Economics

I'm on a goddamn high horse about this "raise taxes on the rich" crap and the extremely high unemployment rate.  Aren't I?  I'm bitchy, grumpy, and just not willing to put up with any more bullshit by stupid libs and feckless RINOs who think a bastardization of Keynesianism is the way to move forward.

Case in point today is this post in the Blog For Iowa by some Vitamin B12 deficient looking hippie named David VanThournout who says stuff like:

We’ll it appears that the Grumpy Old Party has a soft spot for the mega-wealthy but not for the average hard working and out of a job through no fault of their own Americans. Big surprise there. Never mind that everything points to the loss of jobs as the number one problem the economy faces and is going to further guarantee the loss of profitability in the private sector. Which of course, in light of recent record profits on Wall Street, will not effect the bottom line at all as I’m sure they’ll just be terminating all the people hired temporarily during the holiday season to serve those that still remain employed.

The "mega wealthy" are now a family who earns more than $250,000 a year or an individual who earns more than $200,000 a year.  I know people like this.  They are not "mega wealthy".  Most of the time they are "mega busy" because they are important people with particular skills and lots of employees who depend on them.  They may have a nice house, new cars, and can take a good vacation once a year, but they're not "mega wealthy" like, say, John Kerry, John Edwards, Jay Rockefeller, Nancy Pelosi, or the Kennedy family.

How is the government taking more of what people earning over $250,000 a year going to put an "average hard working" person into a job?  Can you answer me that, idiot?

Who provides the jobs?  People with money create jobs, right?  Yes, they do!  Have you ever gotten a decent paying job from somebody earning $30,000 a year?  No, you haven't.  Not unless you're some drone working for the government with a job paid for by the taxpayers or the deficit, in which case you got your job because of some HR person's decision.

Why don't you stupid hippies have a more diverse bunch of friends?  All your friends are in academia, non-profits, or living off the dole.  You don't know any business owners or people who earn a high salary.  Stop being AFRAID of them and get to know them.  Their lives aren't all sitting around idly while counting their money.

It's like that dumbass Lori Morris, writing in the comments of a Cedar Rapids Gazette story yesterday.  She comes right out and says she is "not pro-corporation" in her views.  What is that?  That is mental illness on display, people!  Who employs people?  Corporations do, usually.

I'm not saying you shouldn't hate some companies.  I think it's fair game to hate corporations built on government lobbying, taxpayer-funded corporate welfare, and protectionist tariffs, like the bio-diesel and ethanol industries.  They are leeches!  They are the reason things are screwed up in this world.  That, and quasi-government entities like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and General Motors, too.

Back to Mr B12 Deficient Looking Hippie Guy's column:

I spoke with Research Associate Noga O’Connor, who reviews employment trends for the nonpartisan Iowa Policy Project and she explained: “By not extending unemployment insurance — historically unprecedented with national unemployment rates near double digits — Congress immediately cut off or reduced benefits for about 44,000 Iowans. That will hurt the Iowa recovery, as unemployment benefits are spent immediately in the economy.”

Everybody knows the Iowa Policy Project are a bunch of Socialists in Mount Vernon, so this is nothing new.  The idea that cutting off unemployment benefits after NINETY NINE WEEKS is going to hurt the recovery in Iowa is complete and utter bullshit.  In order to HAVE a recovery, you need to get people OFF unemployment and INTO a J-O-B.  Am I wrong here?  I am not wrong here.

How long should unemployment benefits last?  According to Tom Harkin, they should last forever.  You "reporters" in Iowa on that conference call with him, did you even bother to ask Harkin how long unemployment benefits should last?  No, you didn't, because you're a bunch of butt-licking tools of the government who didn't want to upset the old Commie Liar Senator Who Doesn't Live In Iowa.  Don't want to be kicked off the phone call and have Harkin's staff call your boss at the newspaper and get in trouble, right?  You don't want to lose your job, right?  The job provided by some corporation, right?  Some rich person who gives money to Tom Harkin's campaign or sees him at dinner parties in the Bahamas or Virginia, right?  The same person looking to have your industry "bailed out" by the Federal government taxpayers because nobody wants to read the bullshit you write anymore because we all know it's bullshit.  Am I right?

Here's more:

When I spoke to Ms. O’Connor she said; "based upon 2009 numbers, which were slightly higher than they are today, somewhere around 30 million less dollars per month would be coming into the Iowa economy because of the failure to extend benefits." She later confirmed via email that for the month of October 2010 $31.4 Million in benefits were paid to Iowans. Ms. O’Connor also pointed out that most of the money that people receive in unemployment benefits goes directly back into the economy rather than into savings and would therefore have an immediate and direct negative impact upon the Iowa economy.

This is deranged.

Unemployment benefits are an economic recovery mechanism?

What sort of insane person thinks this crap up?

Oh, but we must raise taxes on the "mega wealthy" who create jobs and corporations and we must be "not pro-corporation".

Insanity.  This is insanity on display.

Don't the "mega wealthy" already pay the lion's share of income taxes?

"Oh, well, they don't need that!  They don't need that to save or invest or to buy things or to expand their business or to hire people.  The governments need it!  To give to people who aren't working!  Because that's part of the recovery!"

INSANITY!

These people, these Marxists, need to have their asses kicked, politically.  We started kicking their asses in November at the polls, but it will take a few more election cycles to really put them in their place.  They need to be mocked, ridiculed, and exposed as they stupid commies they are.

Their policies hurt people.  They hurt businesses.  They make people dependent on the government, which we should not be.  They incite class warfare, which is wrong.

I'm sure some of you don't like it that I'm calling these people dumbasses and idiots and douchebags.  If you can't handle that, please stop reading and go read some dumbfuck moron columnist like Kathleen Parker instead.