They Have Two Trillion!

What's at the core of the I-know-better-than-you Progressives' strategy? Think Willie Sutton. They go where the money is. Their buzz now is that the rich aren't hiring because they're greedy. "Taxpayers bailed out (put in your favorite industry), and this is how they repay us?" The vermin running American businesses are "hoarding" two trillion dollars, and that's why the government has to run deficits to put money in the hands of the poor. Those rich bastards. If they keep forgetting that the purpose of business is to hire people - not make a profit - well, maybe they're not mature enough to have a business. Maybe they need to have their business privileges taken away; get sent to time-out so they can think about what they did, and stay there until they're ready to say "sorry."

Ever watch a card game you didn't understand? Money or chips sit in front of each player. They make bets.  Cards are dealt or turned; maybe held against the forehead. Someone claims the pot. Words are exchanged in your mother tongue, but make no sense. Another hand is dealt. Would a rational person sit down at that table?

Businesses have been facing a stream of destructive taxes and incoherent regulation since the Progressive sweep in 2008. Bills like the 3,000 page financial "reform" act created powers for regulators that aren't even enumerated in the bill. They get to make them up on a needs basis. Huh? Health care "reform" (another 3,000 pager) created 132 new agencies, again with powers not clearly codified. Say what? Then there's Cap & Trade. Is that going to be a costly middle finger to the nation during the lame duck session? When the rules are unknowable, sane people don't play.

Delays in putting money to work is the latest capitalist demon to Progressives. Remember, all that capital has already suffered through the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, but some time in the very near future, an excess accumulations tax will be proposed. Like Willie Sutton, they just have to get into that vault. Once that's done, IRA's and 401 k's will be next. If Obama knows how much capital is "enough," and how much pay is "enough," how can he not know how much retirement money is "enough?" (Sounds like a good title for a blog.)

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke

Evil has never been more visible. Rip it out by the roots this November.