They’re coming for our wallets

I listened to Hillary on Fox News and Larry Kudlow proclaiming that she wants to take $36 billion in profits from the oil companies;

The other day the oil companies recorded the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits. And I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy, alternatives and technologies that will actually begin to move us in the direction of independence.

The only links I can find to this quote are at right blogs, not a whisper anywhere in the news. The quote above came from NewsBusters. There’s a blog about Hillary’s Energy Agenda at Pajama Media by “Anonymous”.

But doesn’t that seem odd that the main media isn’t reporting this any degree? Usually they’re is reporting every fricken syllable the woman speaks regardless from which orifice that syllable is expelled.

Then we have Edwards on Meet the Press promising to raise our taxes to pay for his healthcare scheme.

The bottom line is we’re asking everybody to share in the responsibility of making health care work in this country. Employers, those who are in the medical insurance business, employees, the American people — everyone will have to contribute in order to make this work.

Nevermind that most Americans are paying for their own health insurance already. Do the rest of us get rebates because we’re responsible enough to plan for our own healthcare while the minority Edwards is trying to cover won’t?

$120 billion/year cost to working Americans. God help us if Healthcare Hillary and this froo-froo form a party ticket next year. And since Edwards is always a bridesmaid and never a bride, that makes sense.

So just take a wild guess what gas would cost us if Hillary seized oil company profits (actually she sounds a bit like Hugo Chavez, doesn’t she?) and then tack on Edward’s healthcare tax. I really don’t think working Americans will be able to afford to live in this country any longer after that election.

This all so reminiscent of the 1984 when every talking head praised Walter Mondale for his “courage” to admit he was going to raise taxes in 1984 Convention acceptance speech (by falsely claiming that Reagan would raise taxes, too, Mondale was proving his honesty by telling the voters he would raise taxes up-front. To head off any stupid comments by my Leftist readers, Reagan didn’t raise taxes - he closed loopholes in then-current tax legislation.)

I sure hope Dick Morris is wrong about the outcome of the next election. But I have a feeling he’s not.

Category: Hugo Chavez, Politics