First we're unpatriotic ... Now we're selfish!

Obama's New Attack on Those Who Don't Want Higher Taxes: ‘Selfishness’

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"The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich," Obama said in Sarasota, Fla., yesterday. "I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. [The Ponderosa: So he can "spread" your wealth!] Go for it. That’s the American dream, that’s the American way, that’s terrific.

"The point is, though, that -- and it’s not just charity, it’s not just that I want to help the middle class and working people who are trying to get in the middle class -- it’s that when we actually make sure that everybody’s got a shot – when young people can all go to college, when everybody’s got decent health care, when everybody’s got a little more money at the end of the month – then guess what? Everybody starts spending that money, they decide maybe I can afford a new car, maybe I can afford a computer for my child. They can buy the products and services that businesses are selling and everybody is better off. All boats rise. That’s what happened in the 1990s, that’s what we need to restore. And that’s what I’m gonna do as president of the United States of America.
[The Ponderosa: So, since 2001, no one has gone to college, bought a new car or a computer? Got it. Guess he missed the economic expansion that was fueled in great part by consumer spending.]


"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

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Well, there ya have it.

Wishing to retain the rewards of your labor, intellect and innovation is now selfish according to the would be Community Organizer in Chief.

Obama constantly talks of building the economy from the "bottom up".

What Obama clearly does not understand is that the automobile, airplane and the PC, to name but a few key inventions that radically changed the way we live, did not come about based on some great groundswell of demand for them.

(Were you sitting around in 1975 wishing there was some way you could communicate with someone on the other side of the planet with a few keystrokes?)

They were someone's dream and only when the dreams came true was there a demand. That's Say's Law: Supply creates its own demand.

The next amazing life-changing innovation is being developed right now by someone risking everything.

That person will likely get rich -- and Obama will love him -- but, more importantly, his creation will provide more valuable to the world than the work of 10,000 community organizers.

Let us leave you with this thought: If wishing to retain the fruits of your hard work, diligence and imagination makes you selfish what does voting for someone to steal another's fruit make you?

The word is covetous.