Comments on: Obama Heads to Oslo for Nobel, but Too Busy for Berlin Wall Ceremony

By: Arial Frost

Arial Frost — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:14:14 +0000

Why would a man who was brought up as a Muslim, who claimed to be a
Christian only when he felt it was necessary in order to run for
president concern himself with America? Why indeed!

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:42:03 +0000

Well, here’s one good reason for anyone to skip Fall-o’-the-Wall festivities: Europeans themselves miss Communism. Just read an opinion piece on dnevnik.si claiming that America’s health-care system (whose existence is taken on faith – an Eastern European can’t imagine an enterprise operating outside a “system”) commenced its collapse in the Reagan era, when profits started going into individuals’ pockets instead of the Treasury. You almost can’t overstate how clueless these people were and are.

By: goy

goy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:07:17 +0000

@94. Paul: - My guess is the young bho was probably mortified that such a horrific end could come to such a historic monument to his apparently then-shaping ideology. It's important to understand how the narcissistic / morally adolescent psyche functions: their overriding tenet is: "it's not MY fault!" In the case of socialism - which has failed, or is in the process of failing, everywhere it's ever been tried - it's never socialism's fault that it fails. It's always the fault of the people trying to implement it or, if it results in massive murder by a socialist government, then of course it wasn't 'socialism' that government was practicing. By that definition, international socialism (communism) isn't socialism; national socialism (fascism) isn't socialism. This is how the left demonstrates Einstein's observations on insanity: repeating the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.

By: goy

goy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:58:36 +0000

@91. ETAB: - david s ... your statement that people facing higher taxes will employ more people is, as noted, beyond parody. Here's a bit of "anecdotal evidence" (aka observable reality) refuting the notion that higher taxes encourage economic growth.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:40:59 +0000

Here’s another thing David S. misses- higher taxes increase interest rates. Not only do higher taxes deplete savings, but the lenders demand a higher rate of return to compensate for the higher taxes they have to pay on their interest. This raises the cost of capital and the cost of living at all levels, which in turn retards the economy.

By: David P

David P — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:05:07 +0000

David S.
After completing your studies at Liberal U. with Professor Academia Dole, I recommend spending a year abroad modestly living out of a backpack. Treat yourself to an empirical journey through the Middle East, Africa, and Europe then return home to America and tell me what you see in our MSM that isn’t fallible?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:24:00 +0000

I wonder what, if anything, the fall of the Berlin Wall meant for the young Barack Obama? …. If the end of the Cold War had sent any shivers down his spine the fall of 1989, it didn’t seem to have left any lasting imprint on his political psyche.”

Are you kidding? My guess is the young bho was probably mortified that such a horrific end could come to such a historic monument to his apparently then-shaping ideology. And if anything today, it is most likely a bad, humiliating memory, one he feels more comfortable ignoring as much as possible.

By: JulianG3

JulianG3 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:25:36 +0000

Obama does not like this holiday. May Day is more his style.

By: Jason S

Jason S — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:55:31 +0000

His reasoning is really quite simple and personal. When the Berlin Wall fell, leftists in this country wept silently and secretly, despite revelations of all the barbarism practiced in the USSR beforehand. Barack Obama still believes the failed model can work with his benevolent dictation replacing that of Stalin’s, and cannot bring himself to celebrate its humiliation at the hands of an imperialist country such as the one he presides over.

By: ETAB

ETAB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:08:05 +0000

david s -you’ve assured us that you provide factual data and that you are an expert philosopher. Yet you keep making the most fundamental errors in logic!

Stop with the generalizations..dicto simpliciter..

And, your statement that people facing higher taxes will employ more people is, as noted, beyond parody. As I said, you make even the White Queen seem rational. By the way, this contradicts your other ‘winging’ it statement where you opined that tax cuts only ‘make the wealthy more wealthy’.

So- which is it? More wealthy or hiring more workers?

And why the heck should income distribution be equal? Do you know what type of society this is found in? It’s called a No-Growth economy, where everyone is more or less in a median income level. Not much diferentation in skills or income.

If you have a population all engaged in living off welfare, well, that will give you an ‘equal income distibution’. If you have a population living, primarily, off low wage jobs that require little education or skill..well, that too gives you an ‘equal income distribution’.

But, if you have a population focused on progress, innovation and development, then, you’ll have a great disparity in income equality. You’ll have some workers requiring long training and high skills and earning high incomes, you’ll have some taking risks by investing in, let’s say, starting up a new technology and eventually earning high income.

And you’ll have some who won’t have the skills, wont put in the years of training and work, won’t take the risks and hard work..and who are content to work as employees rather than employers..they’ll get a middle income.
And you’ll have others with no skills, no ability or desire to learn and they’ll be low income.
Did you know that without that top level, neither of the other levels could exist?

Please explain your hostility to wealth, and how you feel it harms a society.