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Hillary Clinton, in response to the “Drill, Baby, Drill” mantra of the Republicans…
“Jobs, baby, jobs”
Well…now we know which one of the Clintons has the ballz. If I was her, this was the last thing I’d say.
Quoting myself from last week…and not a damn thing’s changed since then, so far as I know…
Sometimes the right side of the issue is to “do something!” and the left side is “don’t do that!”…With raising the minimum wage, it’s the left that says we should do something and the right that says we should not…But here’s something that remains consistent:
The “left” answer always has to do with making things more expensive.
And the drilling, which is supposed to be exactly what Hillary had in mind, is a great example of that. Import our oil and don’t drill for it, gas stays expensive; import it and drill it, price of gas comes down. Supply and demand. So of course the democrats are opposed to drilling. They say it’s all about global warming or the caribou or “pristine arctic wilderness” or some such rot. But with this issue, and many others, the democrat way keeps prices high, high, high.
And Hillary’s concerned about jobs baby jobs? The jobs directly connected to the drilling that the democrat party voted down — all by themselves — may number in the thousands.
And then, as just a few of the hundreds of comment authors noted directly, there is the matter of how to tax the businesses that would be creating these jobs. But look at the rest of the comments. They think this three-word rejoinder of Hillary’s was the greatest thing since sliced bread. So the democrats are all about creating jobs? While making it more expensive to employ people, in every single way they possibly can?
I don’t blame the politicians; I have to blame the people who fall for this. What is it with people on the left? Do they honestly believe when you make something more expensive for people to provide, you’ll get more of it? Or do they just not care?
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The point is not to get more of it. The point is to feel good about having it while preventing the dastardly capitalists from using their profit-maximizing methods to make it.
- Morenuancedthanyou | 10/13/2008 @ 19:01The emphasis on “getting more” marks you to the Left as a materialist, unless you apologize immediately for putting it that way.
It’s the extreme myopia you have to sustain with regard to cause & effect, in order to adore this, that gets me. Whisky…Tango…Foxtrot.
Let’s put it this way. What if Sarah Palin said something about making sure good schoolteachers were paid a decent wage. How many milliseconds do you think you’d have to wait before some enterprising “reporter” managed to use guilt-by-association to connect her to some other Republican who voted against some sweetheart deal that came up for the sake of the teachers’ unions?
I gotta give Hillary credit. That joke about why she never wears miniskirts, must really be true. That woman has enormous stones. Or else no respect for the mental acumen of her constituents whatsoever. Perhaps both of those apply.
- mkfreeberg | 10/13/2008 @ 21:38I don’t know if it’s appropriate to blame people for not knowing better. Christ said of those who should have known better, “Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
That’s one reason why I feel the Galt maneuver is appropriate. It’s not our job to punish (noting that you haven’t advocated punishing anyone). But blaming people for not being as intelligent as “we” are or for not having the understanding “we” do comes awful close.
Shrug, and let God punish as He sees fit.
That makes sense to me.
- JohnJ | 10/13/2008 @ 22:42When this nation was founded, you (or your wife and kids) did zillions of hours of farming cabbages, carrots and potatoes in addition to whatever else you were doing for a “real” living. Otherwise, you didn’t eat. Now we have our purified water delivered to our doorsteps.
There’s hundreds of hours people have to get themselves educated.
And if they can’t find enough time in the whole stinkin’ year to figure out there’s 435 representatives and 100 senators…or that you tax something when you want less of it and subsidize something if you want more of it…you know, on Election Day, there’s tons of perfectly decent reruns of Seinfeld, Friends and Fresh Prince.
Staying home is patriotic. If you’re so ignorant you think laying a tax smackdown on oil companies is the proper response to exorbitant gas prices, staying home is the most patriotic thing you can do.
- mkfreeberg | 10/13/2008 @ 22:52Well let’s see, Sen. Clinton represents New York State. So I guess it would be easy to test her theory on “jobs, baby, jobs”.
As a proud New Yorker, I don’t think she really wants to get into this argument.
- tim | 10/14/2008 @ 09:00