Social Justice

One of the buzz words now is "Social Justice".  Sounds good, warm and fuzzy... who does not want social justice?  Jonah Goldberg blows a hole thru it with this:

"The only way for social justice to make sense is if you operate from the assumption that the invisible hand of the market should be amputated and replaced with the very visible hand of the state. In other words, each explicit demand for social justice carries with it the implicit but necessary requirement that the state do the fixing. And a society dedicated to the pursuit of perfect social justice must gradually move more and more decisions under the command of the state, until it is the sole moral agent.

Social justice is a Trojan horse concealing a much more radical agenda. “Social justice” is a profoundly ideological term, masquerading as a generic term for goodness. In short, it is a tyrannical cliché, a seemingly benign truism that, like a pill with a pleasant protective coating, conceals a mind-altering substance within.”

Quote of the Day

"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." 

                                                                  --James Madison

Bite the evil Apple

In a long article the New York Times caught Apple red handed obeying the tax laws!!!  But hey obviously were not paying their "Fair Share" according to the New York Times!!!! 

Now to come to this conclusion the New York Times obviously knows what Apple's "Fair Share" should be. President Obama is talking the same theme. Obviously he knows everybody's "Fair Share" as well. 

But they never tell us, do they? 

Does the article take the legislators to task for the laws they write? 

Not so much. 

Do they consider that corporate taxes are the mother's milk of our fine legislators and the president? It is a nice booty taken from the taxpayers under the cover of the evil corporations. Any time you buy an Apple product you are funding the government. Do you realize that the US has the highest corporate tax in the world? 

Time to rethink "Fair Share". I for one have contributed some of my "Fair Share" when I purchased the IPad I am using to write this post.

We go back to a previous post... Until a politician says what that elusive "Fair Share" is... consider it just political blather!  Just another thing to divide the nation.

Fair Share Baloney

Fair Share.  This is the current buzz word.... we should all pay our Fair Share.  Sound good, doesn't it? The president had a few CEO's into the Oval office and they all agreed that they were NOT paying their Fair Share.  The President agreed and even Warren Buffett agreed that he too was not paying his Fair Share.

The problem is that no one does anything about it!  Nobody whips out a check book to pay his or her  Fair Share.  And why is that?

I will tell you.  What is your Fair Share?  How would you determine it?  And, if you did would you whip out your check book and pony up?

Ok, the federal government to the rescue!!!  Yes, they will tell us what is our Fair Share!  They will institute a new cabinet post call the Fair Share Department.  It will have staffers up the you know what and each one will have to have a office, desk, telephone (and cell, of course!) need files and a secretary.  Of course they will go to the university for studies on Fair Share, they will have congressional hearings, tons of paper and many, many parties (ah, er. seminars) in Vegas. 

The conclusion....  If somebody says so and so is not paying his Fair Share and does not define Fair Share; they are just blowing smoke, not serous and is engaging is pure campaign rhetoric. 

Let's see how we can divide America today!