Obama: I'm NOT Anti-Business!

Have you heard the latest news? President Obama has settled the energetic debate on whether he and his policies are anti-business. The Anointed One has spoken, and he is NOT anti-business.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20017009-503544.html

Yes, you read that right. Despite passing numerous taxes and supporting even higher taxes on businesses, he is not anti-business. Despite openly proclaiming the "private sector" to be "the enemy," he is not anti-business. Despite demonizing Wall Street firms and health insurance companies for most of his term in office, he is not anti-business.

Only... hang a second. This administration is FILLED with people uttering anti-business rhetoric. Just listen for yourself.





If the player doesn't work, try this link:
http://blip.tv/file/4142594

After listening to that, how can you doubt the Obama and his administration are staunch pro-business activists?


For those new to this blog, please note the high level of sarcasm employed in much of the preceding text.

I think the most revealing line in that video is this one:

"... because we have been guided by a Republican administration who believes in the simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it."

So, the idea that you have the right to keep the money you earn by your labor is "simplistic." Our political masters in Washington know so much more than us, and can obviously spend our money better than we can.

I submit that no free society can exist without the recognition of basic property rights. That means that we have the right to own and keep property. This means real estate and buildings, yes, but it also means cars, TVs, and refrigerators. Oh yes... and money.

Money is property, for the simple reason that we own that money. If the government respected property rights, they would view that money as ours. Unfortunately, this government does NOT think money is ours to earn and keep. As evidence, read this article, which cites President Obama as saying:
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/09/18/commentary/op-eds/doc4c956f2fe214a004246174.txt

“This isn’t to punish folks who are better off – it’s because we can’t afford the $700 billion price tag.”

This is in reference to extending the Bush tax cuts, of course, and it reveals their underlying assumption. Keep in mind that he was referring to money that the government is NOT currently collecting in taxes, but that they WOULD see if they raised the tax rates.

In their view, that money is theirs by right. It doesn't matter that WE worked hard to earn it. It doesn't matter that we could certainly USE that money. That money is theirs and we have to shut up and hand it over.

With this underlying philosophy revealed, a lot of what PresBo has done makes a bit more sense. But my question is this: Do we want a government that thinks this way about us?

I don't... and I intend to vote accordingly this fall AND in 2012.

What about you?