Sen. Hillary Clinton reminds us why she is unfit to govern:
“Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.“
F*ck that. I’m not supporting anybody who advocates communism, especially when they make a feeble attempt to sugarcoat their intentions.
Hillary Clinton’s statement ranks up there with this blast from the past: “We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.” This woman should never be elected president. Ever.
(link via Ravenwood)
Related: Serenity breaks it down:
You and a friend go to college. You take the exact same classes and you work the exact same schedules and have the exact same amount of time to spend on homework. You are also equally intelligent and capable. You attend class every day, on time and you always have your homework assignments completed. On the other hand, your friend decides to skip classes, sleep in, show up late, turn in homework late or not at all and never studies for tests.As a result, you get a 4.0 and your friend gets a 2.0.
HOWEVER! For the ‘common good’, the college has decided that they are going to take away from you so that your friend, who didn’t get as high a grade will be equal to you. Afterall, again, it’s for the ‘common good’. Right?
Now you both have 3.0 on your transcripts.
How would you feel if you were the student who had earned that 4.0?
Put that in dollars and cents, and you get the gist of what Hillary Clinton wants to do — and she won’t just stop at eliminating tax cuts for the “rich”. She’ll try to raise taxes across the board to help bring about “equal distribution” or “fair share” (which are sugarcoated translations of principles from The Communist Manifesto).
The irony is, though, that Clinton herself is a member of the bourgeoisie. Will she also lower herself to proletariat status “for the common good”? If the answer is “yes”, I have some beachfront property in Pahrump for sale.
Related #2: James Hudnall comments.
We are in absolute agreement. Communism or Socialism, I don’t care. When you take stuff that I worked for it’s called stealing. It’s interesting that the only place I have heard anyone screaming about this is in the blogosphere. The rest of the world is ignorant that she said this. I found the same story at San Francisco Gate and blogged on it myself.
give me a break… talk about rhetorical overkill…
advocating to repeal the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy and return taxes to 1990’s levels does not make one a Communist… wow… I don’t want to hear conservatives b*tching next time some ignorant lefty makes some sort of “fascism” or “brown shirt” comments when you turn around and throw the “communist” label so freely…
if its childish and immature for the left to toss out “Hitler” and “fascism” references, it is equally inappropriate when the right tosses out “communist” labels…
both the demos and repubs are safely in the capitalist camp… the debate is over the extent we should fund a social safety net… good-intentioned people on both sides of the political spectrum can disagree without being a**holes.
darn, wish i could edit posts… that last sentence, on rereading, did not come out the way i wanted…
the sentiment i was trying to express was: fair-minded people on opposite sides of the political spectrum can disagree over policy without being disagreeable… when the left bandies “facist!” labels… it destroys any hope of honest debate with conservatives… when the right whines “communist!”, it is equally as bad, in my humble opinion.
I agree with Joe DC. Senator Clinton is no more of a communist that the Commissar. The political debate gets nastier by the day. And I am no economist, but Bush came into office claiming to be the CEO President… Well I am a CEO and if I ran deficits the way he does, my board would throw my ass out on the street.
She can get away with it, because we were wll weaned on the idea that the government “lets us” make money. Supposedly, it is the government that makes it possible for us to succeed, and it is to the government that we “owe a debt” for that success.
Or, at least, that’s how the Democrats see it.
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The people of the world have resoundingly rejected Communism. The only places it is still practiced are totalitarian regimes where the people long for something else. China is the biggest holdout. Just yesterday there was a huge protest in Hong…
“…I am no economist, but Bush came into office claiming to be the CEO President?”
At least Bush, albeit not one of the best economists in the world (increased government spending, etc.), isn’t trying to confiscate my earnings or my property “for the common good”.
Calling Clinton on her true intentions isn’t being nasty, but being honest. The sneers have been coming mostly from the far left — who are enraged that a majority of Americans aren’t falling for it.
David, how would you feel if the government imposed a slew of regulations designed to confiscate your business profits for “redistribution”, despite the fact that you provide your employees good wages and benefits — or worse, shut down your business and pillage your assets “for the common good”?
Joe, I don’t whine. I just call ‘em as I see ‘em.
“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good” sounds like communism to me.
When individuals are held responsible and freed from runaway taxation to provide their own safety nets, statist ponzi schemes aren’t necessary.