400-408 – (:24, :05) Obama at Roanoke (7/13/2012). "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
• Mike Flynn (Breitbart, 8/3/2012) THE PRIVATE SECTOR BUILT EVERYTHING.
One of the more amusing distractions of this campaign has been the post-modernist deconstruction of Obama's "you didn't build that" comment. The media has been desperately spinning that when Obama said "that", he was referring to collective goods like "roads and bridges" and not the entrepreneurs' individual businesses. Okay, fine. But where the hell did the government get the money to build those "roads and bridges"?
Every single dollar government spends comes out of the private sector, either through taxation or borrowing in the financial markets. Now, I know this is painfully obvious, but it apparently bears repeating. Every single dollar government spends comes out of our paychecks. The media would have you believe that government somehow has some mythical money-pot, from which it can draw to build these fantastic "roads and bridges". As a token of gratitude, Obama believes, the more successful among us should hand over a bit more of our income to the government.
To which I can only respond: "Hey, Scooter, we already paid for those 'roads and bridges'. Where do you think you got the money to build them in the first place?"
"Roads and bridges" are largely paid for through the tax on gasoline. Sure, these taxes also pay for bike paths and financially unfeasible mass transit systems, but they do also pay for "roads and bridges." Good. Cool. That's the kind of thing government is supposed to do with our money, i.e. pay for things that benefit us all. But, we already paid for it. And, businesses, presumably, probably paid more gas taxes than individual consumers.
Last year, I paid a contractor to do some work on my house. He didn't come back months later and say, "Hey, you like that work I did? You couldn't have done that. How about kicking me another grand."
This entire point was put in stark relief by yesterday's news that California's state budget is in trouble because of the apparent failure of Facebook's IPO. It seems the government was counting on reaping almost $2 billion in capital gains taxes when the company's employees sold the expected-to-be-hot shares.
Please let this sink in. The STATE of California built its budget partly on the expectations of tax collections from an IPO of a company headquartered there. Some percentage of everything the state planned to spend next year was based on what it thought it could extract from one company's employees.
The private sector built everything.
(8X) • Blaze (8/3/2012) 'A DIFFERENCE IN PHILOSOPHY': PAUL RYAN GIVES EPIC SPEECH IN SUPPORT OF FREE ENTERPRISE. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) on the House floor August 2.
(:53) PR1 – True Capitalism. Difference in philosophy. "The United States tax code is a mess. We've got to get out of the game of Washington picking winners and losers through the tax code. These special interest loopholes end up rewarding a few while raising taxes on everyone else. We want to remove these barriers of upward mobility and opportunity to have a true entrepreneurial form of capitalism, not crony capitalism."
(:20) PR2 – Special Interests. Both parties are guilty of this.
(:17) PR3 – Global Competition. 97% of the world's consumers live in other countries.
(:11) PR4 – Taxing Small Business.
(:48) PR5 – Canada Lower Tax Rates. Canada is 15%, Wisconsin's rate is 44.8%!
(:32) PR6 – Let People Keep Their Own Money. Difference in philosophy.
(:28) PR7 – Best Intentions. Let's have a public debate about this, not in back rooms.
(:09) PR8 – Clean Up & Down Vote
413-429 – (2X) • YouTube (8/4/2012) Obama That I Used To Know. "But college ended, had to pay my rent / at least your the first gay president, but the change I got was that I moved in with my mother." "Because you won and then you cut me off, but now your speeches never soar as high as unemployment."
• Breitbart (8/6/2012) NEW OBAMA APP RATS OUT NEIGHBORS' POLITICAL AFFILIATION.
434-440 – SIMULCAST WITH HUGH HEWITT'S NATIONAL SHOW TO TALK ABOUT 2016: OBAMA'S AMERICA.
LINER – Go to kkla.com and be one of the first 300 people to register for free tickets to our private KKLA pre-screening of "2016: Obama's America" this Thursday night, August 9th, at 7pm at the Edwards theater in old downtown Brea. I'll be doing our show from there, and then I'll welcome everyone at the beginning of this controversial and insightful documentary by best selling author Dinesh D'Souza, and Gerald Molen, producer of Schindler's list. The movie explains why he is reducing America's place in the world, and replacing the American dream with a dream from his father. Why is he working to redistribute wealth and power away from America and toward the rest of the world. And why he wants to remake America by unmaking America. Remember, there's only 300 seats available, they're all free, and you can only get them at kkla.com. And there's a max of only two tickets per registration.
443-452 – Calls – How will this app be misused and by whom? Are you concerned that anyone can now determine whether you're a Democrat, Republican, or Independent?
458-508 – Stanley Kurtz, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and contributing editor at National Review Online, talks about his latest book Spreading The Wealth: How Obama is Robbing The Suburbs to Pay for the Cities (2012) (Amazon).
• Stanley Kurtz (NRO, 8/1/2012) Burn Down the Suburbs? Just as wealthy states are expected to fund poor states, and those who pay federal taxes are expected to fund the unemployed, so too the suburbs are expected to fund our urban centers – in the mind of Progressives. This socialist redistributive scheme goes by many names, among them "regional equity movement" or "regional tax-based sharing," "Building One America," and the "Sustainable Communities Initiative." It's up and running in Minneapolis-St.Paul, and the suburbs hate it, but they can't end it because Progressives are the political majority. The best words to describe it are tyranny and theft.
512-523 – Stanley Kurtz,
528-539 – Stanley Kurtz,
544-554 – Stanley Kurtz,
• John Fund (NRO, 8/4/2012) What Obama Has in Store for Us.
558-608 – Kirk Cameron, from ABC's Growing Pains to the smash hit Fireproof, from his The Way of the Master evangelism tools with Ray Comfort, to he and his wife Chelsea's free Camp Firefly (campfirefly.com) for the families of children with terminal illnesses, he's touched our hearts. And now after spending the past two years doing research, he's ready to share with us what's he's found in his first solo project, the movie Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure, now available on DVD (kirkcameron.com). A portion of all Monumental profits will be donated to the Restoration of the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts (link).
612-623 – • Blaze (8/7/2012) ATHEISTS AWARD 12-YEAR-OLD WITH $1,000 FOR THIS PASSIONATE SPEECH AGAINST GOV'T PRAYER.
Here's a full transcript of her testimony:
Good morning. My name is Maia Disbrow, and I am twelve years old. I am a perfectly normal young adult, although some of my friends would beg to differ.
I was present at the meeting at which my dad spoke. The prayer was very rude to me and some of my closest friends, not to mention parts of my family.
My dad did not put me up to this. I came because I care about this and things like it. All through elementary school, I was teased and ridiculed by people who I thought were my friends. Whenever the subject of me being a freethinker came up, I was singled out. By my friends. You are doing the same thing that they did to me at every meeting you have. Singling me out. Singling out every single person in Hamilton County who is not Christian.
It is not fair for you to pray openly to your God without praying to all the others as well. I believe a moment of silence would accommodate all beliefs, not just one. And after speaking today, I hope I have some friends left at school next year.
Good day.
628-639 – Calls – Is Maia right?
644-656 – (2X) • YouTube (8/4/2012) Obama That I Used To Know. "But college ended, had to pay my rent / at least your the first gay president, but the change I got was that I moved in with my mother." "Because you won and then you cut me off, but now your speeches never soar as high as unemployment."
• Blaze (8/7/2012) AUTHOR DRAFTS '9 CHRISTIAN CLICHES TO AVOID'. Christian Piatt's final list.
21. Christianity is the only way to God/Heaven.
22. When God closes a door, He opens a window.
23. God helps those who help themselves
24. Perhaps God is (causing something negative) to get your attention/It is God's way of telling you it is time for (fill in the blank).
25. There, but for the grace of God, go I.
26. If you just have enough faith (fill in the blank) will happen for you.
27. I don't put God in a box.
28. (Insert name) is a good, God-fearing Christian.
29. God is in control.
• John Hawkins (8/7/2012, Townhall) Explaining Conservative Economics in 25 Quotes.
LINER – Go to kkla.com and be one of the first 300 people to register for free tickets to our private KKLA pre-screening of "2016: Obama's America" this Thursday night, August 9th, at 7pm at the Edwards theater in old downtown Brea. I'll be doing our show from there, and then I'll welcome everyone at the beginning of this controversial and insightful documentary by best selling author Dinesh D'Souza, and Gerald Molen, producer of Schindler's list. The movie explains why he is reducing America's place in the world, and replacing the American dream with a dream from his father. Why is he working to redistribute wealth and power away from America and toward the rest of the world. And why he wants to remake America by unmaking America. Remember, there's only 300 seats available, they're all free, and you can only get them at kkla.com. And there's a max of only two tickets per registration.
