As IF Times

link RealClearPolitics – Video – Moore On Wealthy Peoples Money: “Thats Not Theirs, Thats A National Resource, Its Ours”.

It’s pretty clear that news conduits are publishing Moore’s comments for comic relief on a slow news day.   It’s obvious that at core, he harbors strong communist values despite his curious success in the capitalist world.  The appearance is even a giveaway.  The unkempt hair, the hat, the scruffy beard.  He looks like a Fidel Castro but much better fed.  Some may recall that just recently, he was suing the Weinstein brothers for monies allegedly owed to him from his recent celluloid delusion.  If he believes everyone’s money belongs in the collective socialist pool, why bother fighting for it? 

There is no more remarkable testament to America’s freedom of expression than the fact that Moore is able to spread his deranged gospel …and people will pay for it!  He reminds me of the precocious but annoying kid at family gatherings who always wishes to be the centre of attention by doing goofy things such as pulling spaghetti from one nostril through to the other.  As he gets older, he becomes a social pariah and thus behaves more bizarrely to get attention from increasingly aloof peers.  Somehow, kindred spirits to Moore find him and they glom onto each other like so many globules of mercury.  Unfortunately for us, some of those kindred spirits own media outlets and so Moore’s warped views reach the mainstream without his parents around to tell him to go to his room. 

What our hero is advocating in the linked video is outright socialism.  Someone should drop a note in his breakfast barrel to remind him that he lives in a country that happens to be ground zero of capitalism in the world, though admittedly many are trying to change that.   It’s as if he had filled himself at the buffet table and then preached to the people after him not to eat there.  Why don’t people get tired of hypocrites like Moore?  Why don’t they tie him up in the dead of night, throw him in a rucksack and ship him one way to Cuba?  His opinion of things may change when he’s in a place where the access to Big Macs is not as easy as he has obviously become accustomed to.   It will dawn upon him as to why there are no fat communists, except the leaders.   He may be surprised to find that in a society which shares the wealth, there isn’t any. It’s easy to share nothing.  All those with brains and drive have left…to the U.S.  But maybe he’ll find a more willing audience for his opinions there…if they let him speak at all.  I’m sure there would be many Cubans willing to swap places with him.

Moore mistakes his limited commercial success to genius.  In America, they’ll buy anything.  Even William Hung of American Idol fame sold albums.  He should confine his voracious appetite to restaurants instead of the hand that feeds him.

link African-American lawmakers blast budget plan as step back for civil rights – The Hills Floor Action.

If I had a nickel for every time a white person complained that public policy laws were racist against them, I’d be two short of enough change for a dime.  According to the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, coincidentally all Democrats,  the proposals by the Republican members of Congress to curtail spending are destined to roll back civil rights advances. 

While this appeal may reasonate with a certain crowd, the logic and validity of the argument are as absent as the missing 14 Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers.  Actually, this notion is insulting to people of many constituencies.  At its root, the logic seems to be that only people of color, namely blacks would be adversely impacted by budget cuts.  It’s truly giving false credit to those lawmakers that apparently are able to  direct legislation to isolate only blacks and exclude other ethnic minorities.  Do these proposed budget cuts somehow not affect Latinos? Chinese? South Asians?  How are they able to do that?

If in fact this is the case, the racism claim is valid since that means only blacks have been specifically excluded from access to prosperity.  This implies that all other racial subgroups have somehow managed to exclude  blacks as well since they don’t seem to be lobbying against budget cuts.  It’s intriguing to me that there are not more vocal black groups complaining about how they are specifically kept out of the grocery store business, or the laundry business, or the gardening business, or the restaurant business.  Those damn ethnic cartels are likely running closed shops.  How are they able to monopolize this slice of American business?  It must be racism.

What’s truly remarkable is that these other visible minorities can hold such influence within the economy without the benefit of significant racial representation in the Federal government.  There is no Congressional Chinese Caucus, no Mexican, Cuban or Central American Caucus.  There is no South Asian Caucus. 

The real racism here is from the Black Caucus itself, which by virtue of its very existence influences policies that have been detrimental to that minority.  The usefulness of this subgroup of lawmakers is very questionable since the world has changed dramatically over the past 50 years.  It’s hard to believe a legislative body exists only to forward the cause of one racial subgroup in an ‘inclusive’ society.  In case anyone hadn’t noticed, the present President is a person of color.  It is the height of hypocrisy to claim that the success of many blacks are due to individual effort while attributing failures to systemic racism.  When failure is rewarded, it perpetuates the culture of dependency. Ask any parent who has a 30 year old living at home.

If anyone needs help, it’s the contingent of Americans who are willfully non productive.  We’ll call it the Congressional USELESS Caucus which stands for  Union of SEdentary,   Lazy, Entitled, Sanctimonious Slobs.  This would work only if you could convince anyone in this group to run for office.  And besides, there already is a Democratic Party.