Mr. Obama, Build Up That Wall!
I mean, the Communists did this in Berlin, right? That worked well! Did you think the reds just slapped that sucker up because they were evil? Did you think they just did it for the joy of shooting their own citizens? Of course not. The Communists were smart people, logical people. They knew that when the state encroached on human freedom by taking the fruit of people’s labor, by demanding power over people’s productivity and creativity, those people would naturally, sensibly come to understand that the contract between citizen and state had been violated, and they’d take off. And you just can’t have a socialist state if all the creativity and productivity and other people’s money leave. So the Communists built a wall. It made perfect sense.
And so we should build a wall! And keep job-and-wealth-creating people like Eduardo Saverin from leaving! What other solution could there possibly be? I mean, if smart guys like Senators Schumer and Casey can’t think of one, I sure can’t.
So this is the country you made, President Obama — and in only three short years too. So don’t you wait. Don’t hesitate. Don’t bother with punitive taxes or big speeches or any of that stuff.
Mr. Obama, finish the job! Make this the America you want it to be.
Mr. Obama, build up that wall!
“Kulaks! It’s all the Kulaks! Suppress them!!!”
Frightening, eh?
I am so outta here. My plans for emigration proceed apace.
The Facebook dude is a living example of the behavioral component of economics, the central component. Time and time again when the feds jack up taxes revenues go down and, conversely, when the taxpayer gets some relief revenues skyrocket. In the economics bidness, Keynesianism was long ago proven to be threadbare, but a great tool for socialist fraud. Most Keynesians are in the Faculty Lounge or are powerful officials in the gubmint. What these dudes do is crack the horse & buggy whip of static analysis. Obama’s on board with this crew, big time, always huffing and puffing “I’ve got many economists who…” So what? BFD. There are always plenty of con men on the come, so what does that prove?
Prez Barack Hussein is an uneducated man, a dullard for whom what education he did get was inculcation. The man’s a dumbass, but a highly effective on. He’s a super-ideologue with timing, a great canned speech, and sharp teef.
I say Eduardo is a dynamic guy… an object lesson in the primacy of dynamic analysis.
Shame on you you bastard!You are nothing compares to our President Obama.You are not a true patriotic American,if you are you don’t disrespect your pOTUS you moron!
Respect is earned. The greatest respect that can be had is the truth be spoken about oneself. The difficulty of speaking truth concerning “our President” is that we do not know what that is. Was he born in Kenya? He seemed okay with allowing folks to think that for 16 years … until it became incompatible with his future goals. When challenged on his place of origin he has produced or allowed others to produce forged documents. With all of these inconsistencies, how do we know what is true.
All the things Obama lambasted the former president for, he continued to implement. Then however he is driving us toward a socialistic state which is what Andrew is trying to demonstrate, eh?
Carol, read “Animal Farm,” “1984,” and “A Brave New World” Read The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich. Or just go to YouTube and watch it.
Freedom is slipping away. When it is finally gone, you will understand why we did not like Mr. Obama.
“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690
The Democrat party has indeed become the home of totalitarianism in this country.
Federalist #28
The people are to hold the power of the the Federal government in check to prevent it from usurping power.
Original quote:”In a confederacy the people, the people without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate.Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check usurpation’s of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate.”
Those who are fighting for smaller government are not simply expressing opinions;they are exercising the ultimate constitutional check on federal power. If the people stand by and accept the federal government’s ever expanding role, then there is no barrier left to eventual tyranny.
Andrew,
Don’t give the dumb sob ideas! And for God’s sake, don’t give the even dumber SOB’s in Sacramento ideas!
don’t give the even dumber SOB’s in Sacramento ideas!
They say Cal is technically bankrupt. When that’s said, and it’s said often nowadays cuz it’s true, the question I axe is what do they mean technically?
Prez Barack a few years ago openly floated the idea of the feds, in other words taxpayers in other states, bailing out the Golden State. Unconstitutional, but what does that really matter?
Whether it’s Barack or Mitt next year, we’ll hear once again of his opportunity to share in the great expense of California’s bold initiatives, none of which have worked.
California is like Greece and France. The population has responded to the failing policies of the democrat legislature by double down on liberalism and electing Jerry Brown to shepard the lemmings for that final cliff dive. Jerry’s slogan is as Orwellian as it gets. Lets get California working again.
And California cannot print money. Therefore, the national socialists in DC are starting to cry for more “stimulus” money to hide the inevitable failure of socialism, even in small doses. But CA got a real bargain with Captain Moonbeam. Maybe he can show all the rest of the country what “cool” is all about then apply that same cool to fixing his state’s economy.
Talk about a wish-sandwich.
But right parallel to France and Greece, he chooses the tax&spend route. So many Californians move to Texas. As much as I hate to see that great state get Californicated, I understand the need to move to a more profit-friendly place. But, that will just end up with Texas getting screwed up too.
They leave because of the regulations and taxes. Then, they find a neat house in a semi-rural area. Then they want sidewalks and streetlights and recycling and playgrounds and bike lanes, etc., etc. Before you know it, it’s LA all over again. All because the suburbanites from CA are expert whiners. And they push and they push and they push. Taxes go up to pay for all the goodies that people demand and the cycle starts anew.
Funny, I sometimes watch old episodes of Dragnet and the character that Jack Webb portrayed was a die-hard conservative. Hard to believe that it came from CA now. In fact, it was kind of showcased when Dan Akroyd played Friday’s nephew and got partnered up with Tom Hanks in the 1987 movie. Akroyd played a tight, insecure, anal-retentive caricature of Joe Friday and it kind of made me sick. Funny, yes but Joe Friday was just like everyone’s dad when I was growing up.
The 60′s really stank up the joint…started a trend to more and more liberalism in our government when it, above all else, should be conservative and very, very careful with the people’s money. But no, we have a president who likes to party all the time, a cabinet full of communists, a democrat party laced with bigots, ambulance-chasers, control freaks or just your garden-variety freaks, criminals, liars, con-men (and women), ignoramuses, self-righteous do-gooders, tax-cheats, sexual perverts and other assorted dregs of society. I can find better people at 2AM in a seedy bar. Mark Twain probably said it better.
Position doesn’t make one legitimate. A person of character instead legitimizes the position.
I was once in a cab in Las Vegas having a conversation with the driver about Californians fleeing to Nevada, but bringing their nanny mentality with them. I said, “Yup, liberals are like locusts. They leave once they’ve demolished the crop and then they go find someplace else to destroy.” The saddest thing is they don’t usually do it on purpose. They just don’t put 2 and 2 together and realize it is they who are the problem.
I’m a Californian that left in 95. I was a full fledged lib – not really my fault, they brainwash well (although the 1st pres I voted for was Reagan). I lived 4 years in OK and began being de-libbed. I can honestly say I never once voted in that state. Then in 99 I moved to Virginia and the de-libbing was complete. I’m more conservative than most of you – kinda like an ex-smoker that can’t stand smokers around them anymore. I’m very active in the politics here and I vote conservative/tea party/gop in that order.
Maryland is California Jr and they’ve done their best to bankrupt the state and drive everybody out. Guess where they go? That’s right – here! Trying to explain to these morons that you can’t keep voting for the same failed policies and expect to be able to pay your mortgage and property taxes is like wishing you lived in unicornland. They don’t get it.
“So many Californians move to Texas. As much as I hate to see that great state get Californicated,”
“They leave because of the regulations and taxes. Then, they find a neat house in a semi-rural area. Then they want sidewalks and streetlights and recycling and playgrounds and bike lanes, etc., etc. Before you know it, it’s LA all over again.”
You are spot on here mate. I have been watching this trend here in Texas for years. And I am just so tired of it. They leave a place that is screwed up and the first order of business is to make my home just like the place they left.
sacramento is alread11y counting the money from the taxes from facebook
..everybody at facebook should leave the country.
no sympathy here
Once again your creativity amazes me!
It would have to be a magic wall. One that stops emigrants from exiting, but allow (illegal)immigrants to enter.
What if we told Democrats that billionaires are escaping to Mexico? Maybe that way we could solve that pesky illegal immigration problem too.
Brilliant!! I really like your idea. It is almost as inciteful as “Alarmed Pig Farmer” (above) who used the words “cuz” and “axe” in the same sentence.
The Dems & Libs fight tooth and nail against a wall to secure the south border from the illegal incursions. If we told them that the wall wasn’t to keep the illegals out, but to keep America’s billionaires in, they’d clamor for the funding. As the Russians put it, during the Stalinist era: “herding us into paradise at the point of a bayonet.”
I’ve worked in East and West Germany, and East and West Berlin back when they still existed. A wall like that is a hateful, hateful thing; you cannot imagine the oppressive weight of the very air around it. Building a wall out of confiscatory regulations and impeding the free movement of people is only a precursor to building it out of bricks and mortar.
Invariably, each and every one of these modern day billionaire cool kidz are leftist Democrats. I say, they deserve what they get, or rather, they deserve what they lose. Wealthy leftist schmucks such as Jobs, Gates, Buffet, and now Zuckerberg and Savarin are living proof that the ability to make lots of money doesn’t confer any particular wisdom or insight in other areas that matter.
Schumer and Casey are hypocrits as are every hollyweirdo and all these billionaires. They say nothing about how they all have their money offshore to evade taxes. Buffet owes over a billion in back taxes.
I do NOT begrudge someone making a fortune. I highly resent them telling me I have to pay my fair share when they’ve gone out of their way not to pay a cent.
A grand idea, Andrew. Building a wall around California would create much needed jobs in a state that’s lost thousands more in the time it took me to write this sentence.
Ditto, for a wall around the US. It would help Obama and the BObots make a teensy bit of progress toward the 7 million jobs they promised.
Added bonus: Building walls requires materials, which might mean a few US manufacturers would get a short-term boost. Unless, of course CA and the Feds outsource materials to Brazil … or China … or … But surely they wouldn’t do that, would they?
PS: You’re a fan of Blue Bloods. Hope you’re watching this evening. Very interesting story line, to say the least.
Mr. Klaven, you are seriously misinformed. The Berlin Wall was built to protect the kind, free, and peace-loving people of the German Democratic Republic from the greedy, decadent, war-mongering, retrograde running-dog capitalist pig lackeys in the West.
With the Smart Diplomacy of President Obama, especially advised by his brilliant Vice President and beautiful and charming Secretary of State, we have no need to fear any external threat. A wall would be an unnecessary diversion of resources from providing Julia her birth control. Plus it would make it more difficult to import the delectable chihuahuas for state dinners.
There are rules in human endeavor that are to use a term long forgotten, are unalienable rights…
Building a wall, creates a cottage industry to scale walls.
Taxing something results in less of what you are taxing.
Any arguments?
You are an American or you Ain’t. Get rid of dual citizenship. My Dad renounced his original to become American in the 1920s. That is as it should be.
This accidental bilionare is a victim of his own stupidity. After all, both cretins (super rich cretins) Saverin and Zuckerberg are (or perhaps have been until now) Obama’s fanatical supporters.
They gather what they have sown and both deserve to have their wealth appropriated to pay for the bancrupting debt thay helped to inflate by backing the GRAND THIEF.
Right! It’s difficult if not impossible to feel any empathy towards these people that voted for this kind of abusive-entitled government. What did they really expect?
The best thing we could do is to eliminate all “non-profits” from the tax code. Non-profits are, in fact, not non-profit, they’re really just non-taxpaying entities. And you’ll note that many of the leading non-taxpaying entities “go on the warpath” to raise taxes on those who haven’t gamed the system for preferential treatment. It is truly baffling that a CEO of a “for-profit” company is vilified for a $1 million salary but the CEO of a “non-profit” earning the same is nominated for Sainthood. That the “for-profit” company enables all of the activities of the “non-profit” is somehow missed by the genius OWS movement. Isn’t it time for the non-taxpaying entities to pay their fair share? Let’s make it illegal for the uber-rich to shelter money in Trust Funds. We can call it the Gates-Buffett Rule.
Getting rid of tax shelters such as Trust Funds and Non-Profits to corral the Gates and Buffets of the world to finally pay their fair share is a good idea! That’s a tax-paying scheme I can get behind instead of the tax-avoiding scams that Buffet’s always pushing to try and make himself appear virtuous.
Others have made this point, and probably more articulately, but it continues to astonish me that pols don’t grasp the fact that people REACT to the tax code rather than simply being compliant serfs. You have to be unusually stupid not to see this, and yet . . .
Other than the fact that “intact” is one word, well done.
Absolutely hilarious.
But of course it is very sad too, because in fact the Wall is being built as we speak: the wall of class warfare, division, hate, envy, subversive propaganda. The wall is being built in the minds that go through the indoctrination process fostered by the media and the “universities”.
Every day, every single article here at PJM tries to chip away a little piece of the concrete of the wall that has been built around each one of us, around America’s Freedom.
Let’s keep digging, let’s pray and work until the day we will see it crumbling, and through a big cloud of dust we will see the Light of Freedom rising again.
In one of the GOP debates, Ron Paul commented that walls could keep our citizens from leaving – in response to a qoestion about border security. Some reacted as though he was nuts, but here you have it. Obama’s policies have made the uthinkable a possibility. Hope and change, comrade.
who would have thought that in three short years, this president would have people looking to forcibly keep people from leaving this country.
But that is what happens when you get a moochelle that wants to rewrite history, an education system that dumbs down and denigrates this country and socialist/marxist/communists that want to transform this country.
Didn’t take Obozo, our clown in chief, first White black, gay, unpatriotic, failure, economic dunce and chi style thug politician to take advantage of the uneducated masses with the help of the lame stream lap dog suck up media that were taken in by a smile and a crease in his pants.
And we mustn’t forget that this is the man that promised us he would spend every hour working on the unemployment problem but tells us that sometimes he forgets the magnitude of the problem.
Must be difficult to remember the little guys when you are golfing, partying, vacationing, eating, campaigning and are a part of the 1% that you rail against.
What a sick joke on all of us that has nobody laughing and he can’t wait until he is reelected so that he can do so much more without the threat of having to face another election.
Schumer sees all those dollar signs and wants to regulate something. It’s just not right for a company to make so much money and find ways to keep it out of the hands of the politicians who obviously know better how to spend it.
Sorry, Klavan, I think you miss your own point.
And the country all of the last administrations have made. Hell, much as I dislike Obama, he is just continuing the policies of the past. He has not come up with anything new just retreaded old Progressive lies in new rubber.
Bush 41 & 43, Clinton, Carter et al can wear this mantle.
“Politicians are like diapers. Both need to be changed regularly and for much the same reasons.”
This is what happens when one believes they’re entitled to other peoples money or stuff. There is no way that the progressive lefts’ class warfare can end up other than badly because some one somewhere is luckier and has more stuff. When one believes that they are more enlightened and can tell others how they should best use their money it compounds the problem further.
HOT DAYUM!
Just look at all them ‘Shovel Ready Jobs!!
And as a side beni when they pass this ‘Fugitive Slave Law v2.0′ there’ll be openings for new Government SLAVE CATCHERS. Another whole category of Federal Employment. And it’ll be ripe for expansion too. Why there’s no tellin’ where this may end. It’s a good day to be a Liberal. A real good day.
Casey was on Fox this morning and he was either lying or didn’t know that if you renounce your citizenship you already pay a tax on the value of all US assets.
Unless the US government is now employing mind readers, how is the government to determine when someone renounces their citizenship to save taxes.
FYI — CA already has about 10% punitive “exit tax” on the wealthy.
Didn’t the NAZI’s only charge the jews 25% of their wealth for an exit fee?
Excellent article! What’s frightening is that I’ve suggested your idea to some of my liberal associates here at work, and they all agree that it’s a good idea.
Scary…
Mr. Klavan, I read this and I can’t believe how you just read my mind. I have no taxable assets but mere unemployment and (I must admit) fear of what may happen were the two big reasons to leave the US. I am writing to you from Buenos Aires. I never thought forty years ago that one day the US would come to resemble the USSR so much. This amazing achievement is clear to see: we have managed to fuse the worse of Capitalism with the worse of Communism. I took a copy of the U.S. Constitution with me and buried it in a safe place. If the government there ever feels the need to return to its roots I will be happy to send them a copy.
God Bless,
C.