Senator Clinton, speaking at a fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer (I'll pause to allow the conservatives to regroup from the image) as reported in SignOnSanDiego.com:
"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
Hat-tip: WSJ Best of the Web
Posted by jk at June 29, 2004 01:42 PMAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. This stuff makes me sick to my stomach. WHO gets to decide what the, "common good," is? No doubt Clinton and Boxer and the rest of the elite who are smarter than us poor hicks who do the work in this country. !@@##$^&*&*&*&*(
Posted by: dagny at June 29, 2004 01:54 PMDagny, you're certainly not suggesting that those who *earn* the money get to decide -- that wouldn't be fair!
Posted by: jk at June 29, 2004 02:48 PMI can't get angry at this. I just can't get past being dumbfounded that a politician would actually say such a thing, at a fundraiser no less! Hi, please give me some money and by the way you have too much so I going to take some of it to give to someone with less.
Posted by: Silence Dogood at June 30, 2004 02:29 PMOkay, Silence. Your liberal cred is hereby established for another year.
I don't get "mad" at Senator Clinton anymore. I've come to accept what she is and the Doctor has got my dosage adjusted just about right.
But this is not a gaffe. This is policy: she and the other Ivy League spawn in our Nation's Capital know what is good for us. A bunch of successful businesspeople in California (attending Senator Boxer's fundraiser no doubt) can't spend their money as wisely as the Gub'mint.
You may not disagree, Silence, but that makes you a little bit diff'rent 'round these parts...
Oh no JK, I agree with you and Dagny on the point that folks should get to spend their own money, I am far from that end of the liberal scale. I was just poking fun at the sheer audacity that a politician would say that at a fundraiser. My point was that I would have been too stunned by the stupidity of the comment to get around to being angry.
Posted by: Silence Dogood at July 1, 2004 09:58 AMThis ought to make you angry and afraid. Dumbfounded is insufficient. Hillary is a successful politician and expert at telling people what they want to hear. Her remark cannot be dismissed as, "stupid." Therefore these people probably agree with her that they have too much money and some should be spent on the, "common good." This would be fine if they got to keep their money and apply it to whatever common good they chose or send it to Hillary for her to spend. The government never turns down extra money. The problem occurs when THEY decide I have too much money and they are going to take it away from me at gunpoint and give it to THEIR definition of a, "common good." That is called communism.
This is comparable to the argument over religion vs. freedom given some time earlier on this page. If freedom is the higher value all can practice religion as they see fit. In a similar fashion if freedom from taxation is the higher value then all can contribute or not to the, "common good," as they see fit. The other choice is communism which is just as evil as religious dictatorship and in fact they are two versions of the same thing: statism.
You should be angry and you should be afraid. America is in very grave danger from this enemy.
Posted by: dagny at July 5, 2004 10:09 AM