???

[kpete]

what planet is he from?

Brooks: "Obama enthusiastically perpetuates the myth that the American people can have everything they want without a dose of shared sacrifice. They can have health care, education reform, even a cure for cancer, and 98 percent of them need pay nothing. The burdens of progress will be borne by the rich while everyone else can enjoy their tax cuts and go shopping."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/opinion/27brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

[phantom power]

1. Sounds like somebody has been overdosing on The Fountainhead.

[Captain Hilts]

4. One of THE funniest movies I've ever seen. People take it and the book seriously, though.

One of my favorite scenes:

[phantom power]

16. They *do* take it seriously. Alan "Roark" Greenspan took it dead seriously.

Which, when you think about it, makes it sort of a minor miracle we're not in even worse shape.

[Captain Hilts]

19. Yes, it does. I've seen him in photographs with AR. nt

[phantom power]

20. And another thing...

the neocons aren't even good Objectivists.

It is a little known fact that I am DU's resident Ayn Rand Apologist. I've mostly given it up, but I'll come out of retirement for this thread: Ayn Rand would fucking spit in the face of the modern GOP wingnuts who use her name to justify their fucked up economics.

All these supposed acolytes of Ayn Rand ran their companies, and our economy, into the ground, and now that its time to pay the piper, they're all running around in circles blaming the poor and begging for govt bail-outs.

Ayn Rand would look at these pathetic specimens and think "Ellsworth Toohey," not "John Galt."

[phantom power]

22. Oh yeah, and one more thing...

if Ayn Rand had had the misfortune to live to see Alan Greenspan pimping ARM loans to unwitting American citizens, she would have kicked him in the nuts and made him give her back his signed copy of Atlas Shrugged. In a public ceremony of humiliation.

[Hissyspit]

21. A classic of unintentional hilarity. nt

[Captain Hilts]

2. I have nothing to add to your comment. ??? is right. nt

[tanngrisnir3]

3. Sounds like he's projecting what the top 1% has been doing for years on others.

[gratuitous]

5. Hanh?

I thought it was the other dark-skinned guy who was saying that Americans can do anything without cost or sacrifice. Maybe Brooks got them confused? Or do all the dark-skinned guys look alike to him?

[grasswire]

6. must be a typo

He meant to say "poor" didn't he?

[Cerridwen]

7. Well, they don't *have* to be rich.

Give the money away.

Voila!

No more burden and they can take their tax breaks and go shopping.

edit to add: I know of several banks and a couple of auto manufacturers who could use the cash. It shouldn't be difficult to find someone to relieve them of their burden.

[Boomerang Diddle]

8. But it's okay Bush perpetuated the myth

that we can fight two wars at once "without a dose of shared sacrifice."

[DianeK]

9. well, well, well..

the richest among us certainly do know how to whine. It makes perfect sense that those who have more should be contributing more. It is good for our country and it also provides incentive to assure that more of us do well.

[merh]

10. The rich profit from the progress

guess they should start to have to pay for it too.

I would gladly carry that burden, to be rich and to have the money to pay extra taxes as well as to not stress out about paying my bills, how will I eat this month, where will I get the money for gas, how will the kids afford college .....

God, please give me the burden of being rich, I'll trade and not whine.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Aha...caught whining and sniping ...typ Pub Talk from the NYT

Brooks sullies his name with crap like this

[ejpoeta]

12. apparently he hasn't seen the news that rolls royce is still doing gangbusters.

they are not hurting from the economy. wonder why that is. all those rich folks hurting i guess. wtf!!! the rich benefit more for the system.... so they should pay more into it.

[malaise]

13. None of those poor dead soldiers will be enjoying anything

but the rich don't join the army do they? The real load in America is carried by the poor and middle class. Fuck the criminal rich.

[pipi_k]

14. Well it's about goddamned time

the tables got turned, eh?


The burdens of progress will be borne by the rich while everyone else can enjoy their tax cuts and go shopping."


The rich have been living off the blood, sweat, and tears of the poor and middle class long enough.

Fuck 'em.

I have no pity.

[L0oniX]

15. Time for the rest home!

[Earth Bound Misfit]

17. Media Matters.....

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=david+brooks

Fuckin' tool.

[snappyturtle]

18. I'd like to tell ol' Brooks that the rich have been shopping and enjoying

their tax breaks for years, now it's our turn! They should have piled up plenty during those good years and they'll have to pull themselves up by their bootstaps.