Happy Mother's Day, mom! I love you. I wish I could be there to see you, though I am having an increasingly difficult time determining why anybody would want to live in the immoral cesspool liberals are turning the United States into. And I'm not the only one who has that sentiment....
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Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook, renounced his U.S. citizenship. It seems like he wants to get out of the country before his next tax bill is due. Apparently a lot of rich people have been fleeing America recently. Why not? Why stay there and give your hard-earned money to Barack Obama, who is going to turn around and give it to lazy bums who haven't worked for it? For that same reason, people have been leaving California in droves and now Jerry Brown finds the state is $16 billion in debt. A lot of wealthy Frenchmen are apparently planning on leaving France before their newly-elected Socialist President can tax them out of existence. (Incidentally, it's now being reported that Francois Hollande owns three homes on the Riviera and is immensely wealthy. Not only are most socialists tyrants, they are also hypocrites. Well, maybe he'll tax himself into oblivion--but don't bet on it.) Liberals seem to think that wealthy people are just dying to give their money to government and thus will sit around and wait for their taxes to be raised so that liberals can waste more of it on welfare programs that, for 80 years, not only haven't worked, but have been socially disastrous. But the rich didn't get rich by allowing themselves to be taxed out the wazoo by wasteful government. Tax receipts will not increase if Obama is successful in raising tax rates. He'll simply kill off initiative and prolong the recession. Recovery can only come through business investment and that will only happen under an administration that encourages entrepreneurial activity, not threatens to punish it with higher taxes and more regulations. Please study the 1930s to see why FDR failed to get America out of the Great Depression. Somebody needs to study it; Barack Obama obviously isn't.
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Albert Einstein once said, "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." More evidence of that, from the AP: "In a world weary of war and economic crises, and concerned about global climate change, the consensus is that President Obama has not lived up the the lofty expectations that surrounded his 2008 election and Nobel Peace Prize a year later." Awww, the world is disappointed in their "Messiah." But this simply shows the boundless ignorance--yea, stupidity--of humans. There is absolutely no way that Barack Obama could succeed as President. His policies are a direct violation of economic, historic, and moral law. Liberalism is doomed to fail wherever it is tried because it is simply wrong, it contradicts eternal truth. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," and "the fear of the Lord" is the very thing liberalism despises more than anything else. And yet the world is "disappointed" that Obama has failed. There is no excuse for such ignorance and I don't feel one bit sorry for those who placed so much hope in Obama. They have the light in their hands--the Bible and the testimony of thousands of years of human history--but they refuse to look at it. They deserve what they get.
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Just a little anecdote confirming what I just wrote. The following was said by Roman orator and statesman Cicero in 55 B.C.: "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
He said that 28 years before the fall of the Roman Republic. Anyone willing to learn from history?