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SHOOT THE RICH

Lately I've been collecting examples of wealth envy from various sources; mainly newspapers.  The topic interests me for a number of reasons:

• Wealth envy is usually an excuse-making or defensive mechanism for those who have failed to become what they would consider to be "rich."  These people can't understand why this is so.  After all, they're good people aren't they?  And they work just as hard as anyone else does!  Yet they're not wealthy!  It can't be them!  It must be the other guy!  So, they take comfort in believing that wealthy people must have acquired their wealth through dishonest means.  By cheating people, exploiting people, and by using crooked lawyers.  The real problem with this, other than the fact that it simply isn't true, is that the person who develops this wealth-hatred is really programming himself or herself to remain in their present economic situation.  If you have convinced yourself that to become wealthy is a bad thing, then why in the world would your subconscious mind ever allow you to make the decisions or take the actions that would lead to wealth?
  
  
• It's no secret that I'm a general aviation nut.  I love to fly, and I celebrate the fact that I live in a country where people are free to get into an airplane and fly almost anywhere they want; just so long as they follow the rules set down by the FAA.  As an advocate of general aviation I've been following anti-airport and anti-general aviation activities for literally 20 years.  Two areas of specific interest to me are the two airports where I base my airplane; Atlanta's Dekalb-Peachtree airport and the Naples (Florida) Municipal Airport.  Both airports have active anti-airport groups.  In both groups there has been ample evidence of wealth envy.  In Atlanta we have complaints from people who don't like "those rich people from Dunwoody flying their airplanes over our houses."  In Naples they have a new city councilman who, in a previous campaign, supported closing the Naples airport, saying that moving the airport out of the city would give those people in their limousines a chance to sip more wine on the way to the airport. In the Sunday Naples newspaper another anti-airport resident referred to the people who use the Naples airport as "a few wealthy commuters." 
   
  
• Wealth envy is an emotion that is eagerly exploited by politicians for power.  We can thank wealth envy for our present tax code.  The 16th Amendment would never have been ratified if it had not been presented to the people of this country as a way to punish the rich.  Like it or not, our economy is powered by people who take chances.  If they couple their risk-taking with good choices they will likely become wealthy.  In the process they create hundreds of thousands of jobs and produce tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue for government.  You doubt this?  The next time you need a job, ask a poor person; and why don't you tell us of all of the wonderful government programs like roads, libraries, health clinics and public safety departments that have been funded with taxes on the poor.
  

And then I found this posted on some Internet site yesterday relating to the vice-president's shooting accident:

 "This may be an opportunity to open a new Global Free market:  Shoot the Rich.  They are vermin regardless which country they live in.  Of course we should take advantage of the "trickle down economy" by issuing hunting licenses and stamps as we do for ducks.  There are enough of them to have a year round open season - no bag limit bur must measure at least $1 million.   .... For those of you who object that this suggestion may be illegal, just remember that the Rich do not follow rules or laws, so why should we?"

There we have a posting by someone who just can't understand why they are not wealthy.  After all, they've followed the rules, right?  So why aren't they rich?  The only excuse this person can come up with is that rich people "do not follow rules or laws."  

Wealth envy is irrational and damaging, both to the individual and to our society.  That's why I want to make the subject a part of my next book "Somebody's Gotta Say It."  So ... help me out if you can.  Send me clippings from newspapers and other sources with examples of wealth envy.  'Preciate it.

SADDAM ON A HUNGER STRIKE?  WHAT A SHAME.

Anti-American radical (and former Attorney General) Ramsey Clark has been quite successful in his role as one of Saddam's defense attorneys in Iraq.  Successful, you say?  Absolutely!  His goal over there was not to win an acquittal for Saddam.  His goal was to disrupt the trial to the point that it never proceeds to a conclusion at all.  Now we have a new tact.  Saddam is going to go on a hunger strike.

Now .. let's flash back to yesterday.  The absurd United Nations Human Rights Commission has decided that force-feeding someone on a hunger strike amounts to torture.   So .. we want to be very sure that we don't torture Saddam, don't we?  Let's not lift a finger to make sure that Saddam Hussein gets one morsel!  In fact ... and here's an idea ...let's wait until he is desperate for food and starts begging.  Then we can throw him a sausage biscuit.  But whatever we do, no torture!

I wonder what Ramsey will have up his sleeve next?  Anything but an actual defense.

MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING

We are engaged in the most dramatic battle for human civilization since the last World War.  Yesterday the word was spreading that Iran had once again started the process of refining uranium into weapons grade fuel.  Did you hear much about that in the media?  Nope ... all they could talk about yesterday was Dick Cheney's hunting accident.  What did he know and when did he know it?

Now,  Cheney deserves scrutiny for and gunning down a 78-year-old man.  But what you're seeing from the media is the Watergate template in action.  They're reliving the glory days.    So any of these journalists actually think they can bring down a president...or a vice-president?  Today the big question is how long should it be before the people know that the vice-president has been involved in a hunting accident?

Which brings us to the chief idiot of the White House press corps, NBC's David Gregory. Who seems to make it his business to push the Democratic agenda under the guise of being a reporter.  Things got a bit testy in the off-camera portion of yesterday's press conference...but evidently Gregory and Scott McClellan kissed and made up.  Anyway, the controversy is over the timeline of the Cheney shooting at the private ranch in Texas.

Maybe it's just me, but while Iran is trying to get its hand on a nuke; while armed and uniformed Mexicans are shooting at U.S. law enforcement personnel along our borders; while congress is spending us into oblivion --- I somehow find it hard to get worked up over how we learned that Dick Cheney bagged an attorney.  So .... How about a big "who cares" here?

Wait!  Let's not forget the controversy about Cheney not paying $7 on his Texas hunting license to be able to shoot the type of bird he was hunting.  Here's an idea: if you shoot a person when you're hunting, how about suspending that person's hunting license?  Just a thought.

JUDGE RULES FEMA CAN EVICT

Here's a court ruling we can all get behind. A judge has ruled that the federal government can boot the Katrina parasites from your local Holiday Inn, Motel 6 and whatever other hotel they're staying at on the taxpayer's dime.  The star of this show is U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval.  Duval rejected the arguments from the ambulance-chasers representing the parasites, saying the government could give them a boot.

Once the poverty pimps and the mainstream media start reporting on this, the universal question will be "what are they supposed to do now?"  Well, here today are a few suggestions.  How about...oh...I don't know....GETTING A JOB.  How about TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF ... for a change.  Surely with all of the rebuilding going on in New Orleans, a fairly decent paying job could be had.  But you see, the Katrina parasites don't want to work.

To most of the ones left occupying these hotel rooms, they've been living high on the hog since the hurricane hit.  In fact, it may have been the best thing that ever happened to them.  Talk about a lifestyle upgrade!  Going from a dump in the 9th ward to a nice hotel room with cable TV! That's some government housing.

It's nice to know there's at least one solid judge on the U.S. District Court bench that seems to have grown a pair.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

Speaking of Katrina, the billions that were spent in the aftermath of that natural disaster have started to be audited.  And it's not pretty. Here are just some examples of where the federal largess has gone:

1.) Katrina "evacuees" were given $2,000 debit cards by FEMA.  These were to be used to buy necessities. A report this week detailed how Atlanta evacuees were spending that money on items like Louis Vuitton handbags.  Perhaps theirs was damaged in the flood!  Now Houston police are reporting they have discovered the $2,000 debit cards were used at strip clubs and to buy beer.  How nice.  Same thing in Memphis, except folks there say the Katrina parasites were buying designer jeans, high heels and purses.

2.) According to government auditors, tens of millions of dollars was misspent on everything from scams to porno films to diamond rings.  The Inspector General says it will take months or years to clean up the mess.

This is what you get when the federal government tries to run a charity.  And yet, despite all of this, there will be calls to spend more money...not less...on the next natural disaster.  Sure makes you want to go to work today when you know so much of your paycheck is going for a good cause, doesn't it?

If Muslims thought those cartoons were offensive, wait'll they meet Fark.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

For Valentine's Day, we'll have a look at young love. Really young from the looks of it. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

so long to tell the press about the hunting accident? 

Byron York examines the timeline.

The UN released a report

on prison abuses at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...and

the Pentagon told them to stuff it. 

Good for them. About time somebody put Kofi's boys in their place.

There's been all this talk

about lobbyists and money in politics, mainly about Jack Abramoff and the

Republican party.  But

did you know John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy enjoy taking flight on jets paid for

by corporate cash?

Here's a quick lesson in

media bias.  Al Gore's event last weekend where he spoke out against the

administration in Saudi Arabia was

paid for by the Bin Laden family. 

Now..the Bin Ladens have disowned Osama, but can you imagine if a Republican had

done this?

A

new study says that money doesn't buy happiness. 

True, but a lack of money sure can make you unhappy.  Unless of course the

government is picking up the tab.  Then people are really happy. 

Unless you're the one paying.

Now that the Danish

government is getting hammered by Muslims, Victor

Davis Hanson tries to figure out why. 

After all, they've always been the politically correct ones!

Thomas Sowell has a good

point.  Remember when the Clinton administration had the FBI files of

Republican members of Congress?  Sowell

wonders why that bit of domestic spying got little attention from the mainstream

media, but spying on terrorists gets more.

Jane Harman and Tom

Daschle are both speaking out in support of the president's domestic

surveillance program.  Once again, the united Democratic front crumbles. 

David

Limbaugh has more.

Professor

Mike Adams has an idea. 

Since the NEA has been funding art all these years that is offensive to

Christians, he thinks it's high time than the NEA commission a piece of work

that offends Muslims.

The Washington Post's Dana

Milbank went on MSNBC dressed in a hunting outfit to make fun of Dick Cheney. 

Since

no one watches MSNBC, Michelle Malkin has the coverage.

Toilet water cleaner than ice from fast food restaurants? Yikes!

This columnist is no friend of the FairTax. Hey look, there's a discussion option...

WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE POINTY HAND THINGS?

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