[TheMercenary]

Neil nails it.... again....

Today’s class warfare warrior is none other than Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky. In a radio interview yesterday, she had this to say:
“I’ll put it this way. You don’t deserve to keep all of it and it’s not a question of deserving because what government is, is those things that we decide to do together. And there are many things that we decide to do together like have our national security. Like have police and fire. What about the people that work at the National Institute of Health who are looking for a cure for cancer.”
Well let me ask this LibTwit a few questions.
Did we decide together to spend $760,000 on interactive dance software development for some researchers at the University of North Carolina?
Did we decide together to spend $1.2 million to convert an abandoned train station in Glassboro, NJ into a museum?
Did we decide together to spend $90,000 to build a sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, OK?
Did we decide together to give $762,000 to a Georgia Tech professor so that the good professor could “jam with world-renowned musicians” while he sought to “understand, model and support improvisation, or real-time collaborative creativity, in the context of jazz, Indian classical and avant-garde art music”?
Did we decide together to give $2.4 million to Winter Haven, FL to buy brand new 40-foot buses that will carry about three riders per hour?
Did we decide together to give the Fish and Wildlife service $6 million to build a grand new visitor’s center at a wildlife refuge that gets 80 visitors a day?
It sounds to me like Ms. Schakowsky has really embraced the idea of democracy … the majority rules. Whatever the majority wants, the majority gets --- even if it means the majority seizes your money to build a turtle tunnel.
But let’s talk about this concept that you just don’t deserve to keep all of your money. If you’ll remember, during the tea party debate the other night, a young man stood up in the audience and asked how much money do these candidates believe he should be able to keep? Here’s why the prog thought process on this concept is dangerous. You wake up at 4:30am to get to your first job on time. You bust your buns to earn a paycheck. Then later that afternoon, you show up to work at your second job, because things have been kind of tight and you and your wife could use some extra cash while you save up to buy a house or take care of a sick parent, whatever. You drive home late that night, in the dark, and you wake up early the next morning to do it all over again. You are the one busting your buns to earn this money. You are trading off some of the minutes you have to spend on this earth to produce this wealth. It belongs to you. It is yours. You decide how to spend it, how to save it and how to invest it. Then along comes government. It puts a gun to your head and says, You owe us 35% of everything you worked for. Hand it over. And the man does so, because otherwise he will end up in a jail cell.
In the world according to Jan Schakowsky, that money that you worked so hard to earn? You don’t really deserve it. After all; you -- or at least a portion of you -- belongs to the government. And just how much of you belongs to the government? Well, that’s up to people like Schakowsky to decide.

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