The President Is Wearing My Tie!
And it's about time someone spoke up about it. It's a dandy of a tie and I was happy to see it on television, but now I want it back. What's more, I don't have a single tie in my truck these days, and it's President Obama's fault. Oh, he may not have done it on purpose, but since when did such trivialities matter? Truth be told, he may not even realize that he's wearing my favorite blue tie, but his trifling innocence betrays a damning callousness about the plight of the un-tied. The fact of the matter is that politicians in Washington DC constitute only an infinitesimal slice of a portion of a fraction of a smidgeon of a percentage point, and yet their necks display a disproportionate share of the nation's dwindling supply of ties. My fellow Americans, we can no longer afford this elaborate expenditure. So many necks are bare. It isn't fair, it isn't equal, and, using the criteria we heard yesterday, it isn't American either.
After all, a tie is just another piece of property and, as such, it belongs not to us as just compensation for our labor, time and talent, but rather it belongs to the collective “us,” as in, the government. How's that, you ask? Thus spake Obama concerning his deficit reduction plan: “It calls for tax reform to cut about $1 trillion in spending from the tax code.” Now, you ask, how can the government spend money in a tax code? After all, spending means “expenditure,” and the tax code is the mechanism by which the government takes in money, not spends it, right?
Wrong again, 10th Amendment Breath. That's so yesterday, so powdered wig! Quoting the President, “...the tax code is also loaded up with spending on things like itemized deductions.” When you unravel the bureaucratic syntax, you see that the guy who is wearing my tie says that that which you earned really belongs to him, and that to the extent you are allowed to keep any of it, it is listed as one of his expenditures, see? So put that in your Commerce Clause and smoke it.
But I say two can play that game. He has more ties in his possession than I so, using his formulation, that tie becomes an expenditure I can no longer afford. So it's mine. In fact, I'm pretty sure he has more suits than I as well. I deserve my fair share of them, don't I? Come to think of it, he gets to fly around in the very coolest Air Force plane of them all notwithstanding that I spent more time in the latrine than he has in any sort of military service. Presto! My jet! He talks a big game about people needing to spread the wealth around, but I haven't noticed him spreading the lavish dinners, musical extravaganzas, first class accommodations, or five-star vacations around. He revels in the trappings of power, amasses as much of it as he can get away with, while simultaneously counting the portion of our earnings that we keep as his expenditure and hopping out of his motorcade long enough to tell us little people to trade our vehicles in on glorified electric carts.
The fact that this pathetic Marxist drivel should spring so trippingly from the lips of the “Leader of the Free World” is itself tragic. That it should go unexamined and unchallenged by much of the intellectual class is dangerous. Why, even a trucker could see through that kind of rhetorical fog. In the meantime, I want my tie back!
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Jul '10
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Counting my blessings:
Sep '10
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“...the tax code is also loaded up with spending on things like itemized deductions.”
We must not only defeat the President and his party in 2012. We must defeat this evil idea that the government owns us all.
Apr '11
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you know if 'Fight Club' where it's asked, "If you could fight one person in history, who would it be?" I got my answer, w/o hesitation after yesterday's "speech."
Jan '11
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I'm claiming the jet on every third weekend of the month, and one holiday weekend per year.
Jan '11
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Become his press secretary then resign; the president will return it then.
Jan '11
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"C'mon, they can afford it." That's the last thing someone says before cheating and stealing ... and now, taxing.
I also question this other premise: that a rich man succeeds because he benefited from society, and therefore he owes his extra profits back to society. Think of what that also implies: that poor people, who participate in the same society, are poor because of society, which therefore owes them. So, we have the simple conclusion: society determines your position and your wealth.
Obama was right. Ryan's vision of America is a lot different than the American that Obama knows. Count me with Ryan.
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Dogsbody, very well put. This notion that we get to keep the fruits of our labor by virtue of some benevolent dispensation from our betters inside the Beltway is insidious. That this idea emanates from inside the Oval Office is chilling. George III would be proud. George Washington is spinning at about 4,500 rpm right now.
Sep '10
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The Venezuelan Presidency of Barack Obama kind of rolls off the tongue doesn't it?
Sep '10
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Not to wax too nostaglic, but those of us who are Canadian have been subjected to this drivel for well over 40 years. In fact the phrase "tax expenditure" I first encountered in the leftist public policy tomes I had to suffer through in (wait for it) business school as an undergrad.
If you want to start something truly subsversive, counsel everyone you know to stop using the phrase "the government" and start using the phrase "the taxpayer". It has a wonderful tonic effect when reading such publications as the New York Times, for example.
Its fascinating too how TS Eliot's Hollow President saves his virtriol for the American citizen rather than the overseas thugs and kleptocrats.
May '10
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Man, I just got done lecturing Klavan about a simple pocket handkerchief, and now you don't even have a tie? Sigh, let's start with sleeves...
Y'know, I agree with the Prez that all your money is belongs to us, but we can't get at it without a properly functioning confiscation bureau, and that takes spending, so we can then dole it out again to our darling little supporters. Some call it kleptocracy, I call it Winning the Future. What the ???
Nov '10
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I wonder how many ties the president has. Does he have more than me? I'm sure he has access to as many as could be imagined, but how many does he actually own? I have well over 200, almost all pure silk (I have a cashmere or two in there), all with stitched/embroidered patterns, none of this printed design stuff. And that's only the third of what I had, as that's all I was able to get from Texas to California.
(I paid a grand total of $10 for the lot of them. Can Obama compare?)
May '10
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TheRoyalFamily: I wonder how many ties the president has. Does he have more than me? I'm sure he has access to as many as could be imagined, but how many does he actually own? I have well over 200, almost all pure silk (I have a cashmere or two in there), all with stitched/embroidered patterns, none of this printed design stuff. And that's only the third of what I had, as that's all I was able to get from Texas to California.
(I paid a grand total of $10 for the lot of them. Can Obama compare?) · Apr 15 at 10:06am
Do you also have a plaid skirt?
Mar '11
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As a member of a previously persecuted and discriminated against minority, it irritates me to be reminded, every time I see Obama sign another atrocity into law, that he is also a member. As a sinstralist I wish to distance myself from that individual.