There was a time when blogging was a little like Twittering is today; indeed, in the days before Twitter, many blogs were a medium for people to publish quick jottings to an audience.
Some of us shifted to the longer and longer form post over time (MITCH’S AUDIENCE: “No kidding?”); others stayed with the original idea.
Some still do. Alan Anderson has been doing “For Personal Responsibility” for the past four years; a long series of piquant, focused personal jottings.
President Lyndon Johnson’s administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama’s will be known for his War on Prosperity.
I’m speaking, of course, about Obama’s effort to engineer a massive redistribution of wealth in America, using all the coercive powers of government now under Democrat control.
Make no mistake about it: Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it, and disincentivize it.
Economical. To the point. No messing around.
“For Personal Responsibility” is like a political commonplace book for someone who thinks about the subject a lot. And since I agree with Mr. Anderson, near as I can tell, on most everything, that’s a very good thing.
Stop by, say “hi”, and support your local MOB bloggers. Please.
That you find the following profound isn’t surprising:
“President Lyndon Johnson’s administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama’s will be known for his War on Prosperity.”
That you don’t understand that Democrat is a noun, not an adjective or adverb, is..
As well as the fact that neither he nor you give a damn, or gave a damn, that for 30 years the rich have made war on the middle class. You defend them, while bemoaning (in usually the next “breath”) the power of the rich, against your puny reserves of money and manpower (to wit – your complaints recently using that very analogy). So which is it Mitch, are you for or against run away economic power?
The DemocratIC party, like the Rerubble party, is for sale – make no mistake – but the issue is that the people buying it aren’t the middle-class (in either case) but rather the rich and powerful. You don’t have a good health care bill not because the middle-class spoke out against it, but because the insurance industry maneuvered (and they were damned smart about it) the Congress to pass mandates to purchase, but not mandatory coverage. There were some reforms to be sure, but NO change in the important features, you still have zero competition, and you still pay THRU THE NOSE for prescriptions. If you seriously think the rich lost on this one, you don’t really know jack about who is making the money in health care.
But go ahead, twitter and tweet all you like about how the poor rich are being attacked. i mean, in the last 30 years their taxes have been more than halved, while yours have gone up, along with massive deficits having been heaped upon you while our bridged fall and our schools fail – those poor rich people – next year they pay NO inheritance tax, effectively insuring economic aristocracies which gave us the likes of GW Bush.. wow, they sure are sufering.
Penigma’s comment is all about the “rich”.
Mitch’s post does not mention the rich.
That you don’t understand that Democrat is a noun, not an adjective or adverb, is..
Thank you, Professor Peev. Is “germane” an adjective?
Tic tic tic tic.
“next year they pay NO inheritance tax, effectively insuring economic aristocracies which gave us the likes of GW Bush”
God, you are SUCH a idiot.
“i mean, in the last 30 years their taxes have been more than halved, while yours have gone up, along with massive deficits having been heaped upon you while our bridged fall and our schools fail”
Do you have the most remote idea how an economy works? You would prefer the tax rate top out at 70%? Who pays by far the biggest percentage of the income tax? Who do you think most of the “rich” are? The world is much more complicated than your mental image of Scrooge McDuck and the rest of us. You want to deficits to fall? Tell the gov to STOP SPENDING MONEY.
Hey Peev, you DO know that heavy taxation of the middle class started with a Democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, right, and peaked under James Earl Carter, right?
Right? Right? And that taxation is getting heavier under the reign of Barack Hussein Blagojevich Wright Khalidi Pfleger Daley Jackson Ayers Rezko Castro Obama, right? And did under the rule of William Jefferson Clinton as well, right?
Right?
And I don’t know that LBJ actually did much for the poor–I prefer Moynihan’s comment and warning that the very programs he helped author were destroying the poor.
Democrats; destroying the wealth of all for the sake of rich, Democratic/communistic bureaucrats and their foundations.
“Buford T. Justice: The god damn Germans got nothin’ to do with it.”
Peeve, you realize you are on a short leash, don’t you?
“You don’t have a good health care bill not because the middle-class spoke out against it,…”
It is a fact that the middle-class has strongly spoken out AGAINST ObamaNationCare.
It is a FACT that the Democrats are doing their damnedest to ram this down the middle-class’ throat.
Peevee, I abhor the Liberal Fascism that you so willingly support.
Speaking of the MOB, Mitch, I was inspired to hit some of my faves that I haven’t had time to keep up with and, sadly, discovered that Kathy has pulled the plug on Cake Eater Chronicles for health reasons. She’s moved to Texas for mental health (away from Klobuchar and Franken) and for warmer weather that is easier on her chemo-addled circulatory system. She made it official on Nov. 30. She obviously can’t be a cake-eater anymore since she moved out of Edina; perhaps in her new home she’ll launch Shit-Kicker Chronicles? Anyway, it’s our loss. She was always an entertaining read and very compelling during her cancer ordeal. I wish her well in her new endeavors, which hopefully will include more writing.
Night,
I’m finding some of these as I go; blogs that I used to read regularly that’ve folded up shop. I can’t write about ’em all, but Cathy deserves a mention. Thanks for the news.
Iron Matron turned out the lights at Kool Aid Report too. No more poop posts.
Sporadic posting (of late) aside, I’m still in business. Tiger Lilly’s keeping the lights on with her cartoons while I finish some heavy-duty work stuff that needs to be done by the end of the year. I manage about a post a week plus the browsing I do here.
I saw that Cake Eater Chronicles had ended, too. That’s unfortunate. I too hope that Cathy returns to better health and is able to start writing again.
It’s not her health that’s keeping her from writing, as I understand it. The chemo therapy permanently reduced the circulation in her hands and feet, making Minnesota winters even more uncomfortable for her. Her husband closed his business here and moved it to Texas so she doesn’t have to stay in doors six months of the year (no doubt finding a more bearable business climate for himself as well). Kathy’s doing well otherwise from what I can read, and may be writing again.