Castro wanted to be Stalin. Chavez wants to be Castro. Shrillary wants to be Chavez.

"Actually, under capitalism fairness does just happen, just as goods and services are distributed to where they are most needed"

No, fairness does not "just happen" in Capitalism. Capitalism, by itself, simply pools most of the wealth in the fewest people. The US is not a purely capitalist society, which is why wealth increased across the population in the past. With the dismanteling of social systems, it looks like that is about to change.

I wonder if Jimmy Carter has any regrets over helping Chavez to power. I wonder what he thinks of what Chavez is doing. Does he back him? And what about Sheehag? And all the hollywood libs who praise him. Will there come a point in their reasoning where they say "oops, my bad"...

Or do they really consider what he's doing to be a good thing?

"The Mask Is Off"!!

We all knew hillary was very socialist, but now she's really started touting it. The whole idea that we should do away with our ownership society in favor of shared responsibility and prosperity is pure socialism, beehive borg mentality.

So much of what she says is total bull:

1) she says the government should promote "special privileges for none" - but what about affirmative action? That's a special privilege if I ever saw one. Do you think she'll do away with THAT?! Hardly. In fact, she will INCREASE special privileges for lots of people, including the poor, the non-whites, the illegal immigrants, etc. Why are they consider more worthy of privilege than me?

2) she wants to "ensure that the middle-class succeeds in the global economy" - The middle class in the U.S. has one of the highest standards of living in the world! Thanks to Capitalism, certainly not Socialism.

3) she says the "'on your own' society that has widened the gap between rich and poor" - that's misleading. The poor in this country are better off than the middle class in many countries. The poor in this country have increased their standard of living dramatically over the past 40-50 years, but since the rich have also increased even more, the gap widens. She misleads the reader into thinking the poor are getting poorer, which is false. What she wants is for the rich to get poorer to "lessen the gap".

4) she wants to "reduce special breaks for corporations" - this is all hype. Once in office she'll pander like everyone else. She may have a show of some special bills but she knows what makes this country run: corporations and industry.

5) she wants to "eliminate tax incentives for companies that ship jobs overseas" - yeah, yeah, yeah. and they'll say "so what! we're saving a bundle by having work done offshore, it'll offset those tax incentives". The truth is the more we head towards a global economy, the more jobs will be done by the cheapest skilled worker no matter where they are in the world. Bush can't change that, Clinton certainly won't be able to. If she tried she'd be derided as "racist" and "Luddite".

6) she wants to "open up CEO pay to greater public scrutiny" - big deal. If it's a public company, what's there left to reveal? We all know they make millions in bonuses while laying people off, they don't care that we know. If it's a private company, she can't do anything. This is all hype and nonsense.

7) she wants to "help people save more money by expanding and simplifying the earned income tax credit" - for who? just the lower classes? everyone except the upper classes? We all know what she thinks of people as rich as her. No specifics on this of course. Instead of expanding the credits, why not say she's going to simply lower taxes? Because she plans on raising them, that's why.

8) she wants to "create new jobs by pursuing energy independence" - hahaha! And she'll find a cure for cancer while she's at it. This is the most frustrating, because it's so completely impossible to do right now. What's she gonna do, have us oil-free in the next four years? Gimme a break. If it can be done, fine, but it can't anytime soon. It's just campaign b.s. that her constituents eat up...as if the Republicans want us to remain dependent on foriegn oil from our worst enemies...Hurray for Hillay, she's the only candidate willing to make us energy independent...

9) she wants to "ensure that every American has affordable health insurance" - well we all know she's not lying about this one. Misleading, perhaps. Everyone who wants this, tell us where the money comes from....taxes? There's no debating this issue. The libs will actually praise Cuba's healthcare and watch "Sicko" in rapt fascination. You can't argue with stupid.

- "Hillary Clinton denounced our "ownership society" as really being an "on your own" society." -

Used to be 'on your own' and standing up on your own two feet were thought to be virtues. Now, according to Hillary, they are vices. Horatio Alger must be rolling in his grave.

When my company announces it's bonus program at the beginning of the year, we're always hoping it will be based on individual performance. But because that's harder to manage, they usually make it based on company-wide performance, and everyone gets the same amount.

We always complain that's not fair - the hardest workers get the same bonus as the biggest sluff-offs. Then half the people that complain go out and vote Democrat. Go figure.

The Ant and The Grasshopper
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ***
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable
home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp
contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor
grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome."
Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the
grasshopper' s sake.

Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King
that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of
single-parent welfare recipients.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits
of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just
happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote

Brilliant, nail-on-the-head allegory MB!

"Brilliant, nail-on-the-head allegory MB!"

If you live in a parallel universe, where the rich are threatened by the poor, then yes, it is brilliant.

However, as that is not the case, the allegory sucks.

Dingbat, it's not the poor which threaten me. It's a liberal President who schemes to take what I've earned in order to give it to someone who is too big of a screw-up to have earned it, but who voted democrat. Working to support myself and my family....an oh yeah, three families of shiftless, entitlement-minded, hand-out, drug-addled, welfare bums who happen to be competent enough to pull the "D" lever every 4 years, that's what threatens me.

loved that story.

too bad we have dingos in the world who go through life with blinders on.

don't bother to explain anything to the dingo, it's like talking to a brick wall.

you can't argue with stupid.

I liked it too but I wasn’t the author. Just to be honest.

i stole this from flo's:

"Father-Daughter Talk

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing?" She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus, college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over."

Her wise father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be fair! I have worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!"

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

SHOCKING!!!! READ THIS!!!!!

Tonight, Alan Colmes said the following about Chavez regarding the shutting down of RCTV and the military response to protesters:

"I've been defending him to some extent, but this is really off the deep end and I can no longer do so given what's happened in Venezuela over the weekend."

It was short but sweet. Maybe there's hope for the left yet. Please, PLEASE listen to what the right has been saying all along. We're NOT nuts. We're just pointing out what everyone should be seeing but the left refuses to acknowledge simply because of the old saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", and they figure anyone who aligns themselves against American must be their friend. Open your eyes!!