Liberals, Conservatives, Moderates, Progressives, all with very different ideas on how we, the people, should live in this country. Democrats and Republicans both have moderates in their party but only one has progressives under their roof, Democrats.
The economy in Congress is the current hot issue, whether to tax creators and spend like drunken sailors, or both. There are so many people , about 20%, who believe it’s right to take money from the rich and redistribute it. Bill O’reily called them thieves last night and he’s right.
The idea of robbing from the rich to give to the poor has been popular since Robin Hood. If you were a benevolent robber back in the day and you stopped a coach and asked the three passengers to empty their pockets and one had only a dollar, the second had a hundred, and the third had a thousand, how much would you take from the three of them. Remember you are a benevolent robber. A conservative robber would take the same percent from each, a progressive would take nothing from the poor, most of the hundred and all but a dollar of the thousand. Who is the benevolent one? Neither, they are both robbers and belong in jail. Note; the man with the thousand employed the other two, hired the coachman and planned to finance a business venture they were bound for. Now all four are beside the road, broke, out of work with futures bleak waiting for a Robin Hood to give them a handout. The conservative at least left them with prospects for survival and the coachman may get a little less than he bargained for.
Liberal progressives insist that taking from the rich and giving to the poor is and honorable mission. There is no honor in stealing from anybody. Our government was set up to collect taxes, by force if necessary, and use it to protect us, and build infrastructure, period. Where did it get the idea its mission was to set up a retirement fund, a medical fund, and a safety net for individuals and businesses? Progressives bent those original limited rules to further their honorable agenda but, as usual when you bend the rules things get out of hand. First they rob those they think can afford their robbery then they spend more than they steal. Tell me what is honorable or benevolent in that? Not only are they misguided thieves but they are irresponsibly mismanaging other peoples money.
Congress has no honor and is proving it daily in the way they are stealing and mismanaging our money. That is why it’s approval rating is in the toilet. It will stay there as long it behaves like a drunken sailor. But maybe honor is passe'.
