It is better to be a fool, rather than a fool's idea of a fool.
It's somewhat ironic that Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's the People's seat in Massachusetts with the help of Ted's brother John.
Scott Brown described the first TV ad he ran in late December, which began in black and white showing John F. Kennedy pushing for his 1962 across-the-board cut in tax rates. The screen then slowly morphed into an image of Scott Brown as he calls for a new tax cut by finishing Kennedy's remarks: "Every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create a new job and a new salary."
Brown, the Massachusetts' senator-elect, says he had always admired JFK as a president who "wanted to help everybody," and when he and his staff pored over that president's speeches his defense of tax cuts leaped out. "That's what we need now. Across-the-board tax cuts," he says. "A payroll tax cut would have been better than any government stimulus."
So why is Obama so opposed to extending the Bush tax cuts and lowering capital gains taxes - - - tax cuts across-the-board?
Instead Obama plows ahead with more government spending and entitlements, such as buying more young votes by promising to cancel their student loans. While that might be good news for the average college kid still living at home with his parents, how does this help the economy and the family who earns a living as a blue-collar worker? How does this help the people who actually work, build and/or fix things, the farmers and factory workers, the people in the service and retail industries, the citizens who actually contribute to the economy?
Is this another example of the academic elitist supporting future academic elitists? Are the Democrats Progressives using the old campaign tactics of seducing the younger voters with more freebies? Like "free" heathcare and other Nanny State subsidies?
What about the people who are actually already living in the real world and supporting children and paying mortgages? What do they get in Obama's Progressive "New Deal"? Obama continues to plow ahead to "fundamentally transform" this nation, but in what way? And why does Obama continue to ignore middle America...the average working (and unemployed) people?
In his State of the Union Address last Wednesday, Obama's "head fake" to the center to give lip service to the GOP (while appeasing his progressive base) is another Obama farce.
Obama mentioned lowering capital gains taxes for small businesses, but I would venture that this proposal will be tacked on to another Obama spending bill that the Republicans will oppose...and then the Democrats will cry, "See! The GOP is the party of NO!"
It will be yet another Obama broken promise.
And Obama hasn't budged an inch on healthcare "reform" or Cap and Trade either - - - what does his arrogance say about the future of our economy?
And besides being arrogant, Obama must be foolish as well, because he didn't learn a thing from JFK or from Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts.
Obama should have remained silent, and thought of as a fool...rather than to have spoken, thus removing all doubt.
The Tea Party advances.
Quotes from New York Times in an article by John Fund, a columnist for WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703389004575033160663975610.html
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