Monday, February 27, 2012

BloggeRhythms 2/27/2012

According to Chris Stirewalt of Fox News, in a speech yesterday in Florida, the president said that "while he favored increased domestic production of some fossil fuels, he believed that higher taxes on producers were imperative in order to finance federal subsidies for green energy initiatives."

I mention it because politics aside, maybe it's just me but I simply don't understand what he means. Because the last time I looked, this country ran on a free enterprise system where open competition reigned. And what that means is, people and providers vie for business and it's customers who decide where and what to buy without outside interference, so long as providers remain within the law.


But apparently, this president believes that successful operators have an obligation to fund their own future competition which to me is so far past ridiculous, it's almost beyond comprehension. Especially when the new ideas have yet to be proven and are odds-on unlikely to ever work. What's more, I truly believe that if today's energy providers thought any of these hare-brained future schemes had a chance of success, they'd fund the projects themselves.

Along the same lines, Tim Geithner remarked that successful people should gladly pay higher taxes because of the opportunities provided them in our nation, which I think also misses the mark by miles. Because its those successes that already fund the government at present, while those in the administration find ways to waste, mis-use and steal what they already take while doing nothing to help earn it. 

Therefore, as for me, I think both of these guys are so far out in left field (pun intended) they either keep pushing the same buttons to appeal to their biased base or are truly demented. But whatever the case, it seems neither of them understand nor care about the fundamental freedoms that made this nation great, but are only interested in how much they can rip off and don't even have a clue as to how to spend it.

 That's it for today folks.

Adios

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