Monday, September 26, 2011

What do Democrats applaud?

It says somewhere that people can be judged by what they praise. Presumably audiences can be judged based on what they applaud. Recently, we saw Republican audiences clap for executions, cheer at the suggestion an uninsured man might die, and boo a U.S soldier who admitted he was gay.  Ugly stuff.

Today President Obama was taking questions at a Town Hall, when a very rich man stood up and made a commendable request:
Would you please raise my taxes? I would like very much to have the country to continue to invest in things like Pell Grants, infrastructure, and job training programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am.
The crowd cheered, and Obama answered with a nice little homily about how America needs both entrepreneurship and government investments.

This short exchange supports what I've always said about rich people benefiting more from government services. Pell Grants, infrastructure and job training programs help poor people individually, but a rich guy with lots of employees who've used the Pell Grants, infrastructure and job training programs benefits exponentially.



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