If you do nothing else this week,

[No Elephants]

watch this episode of the Daily Show. http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/tue-september-25-2012-king-abdullah-ii

I try to catch every show and it may be the funniest I have ever seen.

Among many other things, Mitt says someone who pays more taxes than they owe is not fit to be President.

Er, wouldn't purposely paying Uncle Sam more than you owe be both patriotic and generous, showing love of your country and your fellow American?

However, Mitt, paying Uncle Sam more than you owe because you previously lied to American voters about the percentage of taxes you pay and are trying to cover up your lie may make you unfit to be President.

But, I'll take your word for it, Willard, because whether we go on my analysis or yours, the end result is you're unfit to be President.


Oh, and when you hear Mitt say in a clip that redistribution of wealth has never been a characteristic of America, think of the East India Company, Native Americans, slaves, and British Loyalists whose properties were taken by the revolutionaries.

Sure, that was before we were really the United States of America.

But, it did not stop there. After 1789, things like slavery and the Native American situation certainly continued. Then we had Chinese immigrants getting paid nothing building railroads, police paid by public taxes shooting underpaid coal miners for John D. Rockefeller, etc.

Oh, and there was the federal income tax rate during the administration of that wild-eyed rabid socialist, General Eisenhower.

Redistribution of wealth has gone both ways since Miles Standish and John Alden, but, since Reagan, it's gone pretty much only one way.



What an ass! Worse, none of the interviewers to whom he says these insane things or these self-contradictory things, challenge him on the facts and/or his own prior statements.

Willard, unfit by his very own standard and also by mine. Whodda thunk I would finally agree with him about something?

Unfit Mitt!

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1. Kicking because I buried my own thread and the show is a gem.

[Enthusiast]

2. Thanks, No Elephants. I'll watch it.....nt

[Enthusiast]

3. Unfortunately the show that played doesn't

sound like the one you describe. It was good anyway, very good. I should watch The Daily Show every time. I do have to consider the viewing wishes of my wife. And there is football to consider, then basketball.

My wife and I watch TV together in the evening. It's kind of like something we do. I DVR the political shows on Current then we watch those in the AM as she gets ready for work. I just know you needed all that information.

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6. Sorry. King Abdullah was the guest in the show I was trying to recommend.

And the show aired this most recent past Tuesday.

Wasn't that the show I linked?

[Enthusiast]

4. You make some good points on

the tax rate and redistribution of wealth. Think Obama wishes he never said that--redistribution of wealth? He was trying to appeal to we commies.

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5. I think he does believe in redistribution of weatlh, to a degree.

Anyone who believes in a progressive tax rate believes that people who have benefited most from what their country offers and therefore can afford to give back in a greater percentage should give back a greater percentage.

Before I ever heard of Elizabeth Warren or "You did not build that," I was posting that the rich use more of the things that belong to a nation, like roads, bridges, airwaves, etc. And they have usually been given certain tax breaks and other breaks along the way to help them get rich because we have been a society that favored job creators.

Trouble is, the jobs they created used to be jobs in the U.S. that were labor intensive, so their job creation did benefit the country. That is no longer necessarily so on either count. Even a job created within the U.S. that used to involve 200 people may now involve 10, thanks to computers, robots and other advances.
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