Brief thoughts after the Palin-Biden set-to in St. Louis.
I wonder if Sarah Palin’s last name was really Paling at one time, and the family just decided to drop the “g” because, y’know, they weren’t usin’ it anyway. By the end of the debate, I was likin’ some of what she was sayin’, but I was just wonderin’ if some of the schoolin’ up there in Alaska oughta include some trainin’ in how people should be talkin’ to one another.
Attractive, bright, confident, but a little too “Fargo.” Good thing Biden doesn’t have a “g” on the end of his name.
Which brings us to Joe Biden. Articulate and well informed in the minutia of Washington, as expected, although half the time I was blinded by that dazzling row of teeth.
The most important thing I thought he said – although it didn’t make any of the highlight clips I saw afterward – was on taxes. In defending Barack Obama’s income redistribution plan, he said, “Where I come from, that’s called fairness.”
Well, Joe, maybe it is now, but where you come from it used to be called socialism, especially when the rich already pay the vast majority of taxes. It is still socialism, no matter what you call it. It’s just another way of saying “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” According to that philosophy, if some people have more money than other people, it’s not fair. If some people are having trouble paying a mortgage, government’s role is not to promote economic growth so that everybody has a better chance to pay their mortgages through their own efforts. No, it is to take money from wealthier people and give it to those having trouble, without even asking why they’re having trouble. It can never be their own fault. Even to ask the question violates their “dignity.”
If they are elected, and succeed in imposing this twisted version of “compassion” on the country, the promise of America will dim. Immigrants have flocked to America because of its promise of independence and opportunity. Obama/Biden won’t say it, but that promise is being changed to: If you work hard and succeed, we will punish you by taking the fruits of your success away from you. And we will give it to somebody else who we have decided is more deserving of it. And for those of you who fail, don’t worry – we’ll reward you.
As I’ve said before, the best thing to be in their administration will be a victim. Welcome to the Dependent States of America.
