Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Corrupt and Corrupting

Yet another member of the Obama Cabinet has a tax problem. After issues arose with Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner and were deemed so severe with Tom Daschle that he withdrew his name from nomination, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk had to deal with his own tax troubles as he is seeking to become US trade representative. This administration was supposed to be the most ethical-this was the Obama campaign claim. Obama's cadres are proving to be as or more tainted than any administration in our history. This goes straight to the top to the largely unreported and therefore almost forgotten Rezko scandal. But malfeasance is not the only or anywhere near the main problem. The back breaker is the culture of dependency that Obama is perpetuating and growing to unprecedented levels. He is creating a all-encroaching government where we will all become wards of the state. He is bailing out the shiftless and punishing those who work and save. What incentive is there to labor diligently when government will steal the fruits of those labors? A tax increase in the teeth of recession, a cap and trade carbon limiting scheme, and a national health system will subdue any prospect of recovery. Reversing the welfare reform that has proven so effective by taking people from the dole to gainful employment (passed under Clinton), will not show compassion but remove initiative. Why work when the government punishes those who do with progressive tax rates penalizing increased success, when you can sit back and wait for your government check? Why sweat to pay your mortgage, if your neighbor who didn't will receive a hand from Uncle Sam (Ho Chibama) to stay in his house? With sugar daddy Barack in office, only suckers work hard.

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