Every Man a King

[Geee]

National Review:


As the year in politics closed, Congress and President Obama were arguing over maintaining the Bush-era income-tax rates. Conservatives insisted that the top 5 percent of households already accounted for nearly 60 percent of the aggregate tax revenue and that it was suicidal to hike taxes on the job-creating classes.

Liberals countered that the wages of the middle class have become stagnant over the last decade, and it is time for the wealthy to pay more so that others can pay less. Meanwhile, both sides talked of American decline and assumed that the federal government was either the problem or the solution.
These debates were predicated on ossified notions of relative wealth and poverty as calibrated in money, and ignored the fact that such methods of measurement are archaic in our brave new world. Imagine if just 30 years ago we had dreamed that soon most Americans would have small mobile phones that let users talk or send text messages and photos to anyone in the world for mere pennies per minute — a veritable revolution in daily life brought about without the aid of a massive Manhattan Project–like federal effort. We have gone from “a chicken in every pot” to “a cell phone in every hand.”

[SrWoodchuck]

Geee! Love me some Victor Davis Hanson. Thank you.

 

As King, I order everyone to have 72" flat screen TV's, rotating Belgium waffle-makers, Pik-n-Buff all-in-one pedicure kits, Jack Lalane Vegomatic's and extra plush socks made from bamboo fibers!

 

I know they don't need those things, but I'm feeling generous & as King, I determine whose going to be rich or poor in the finer things of life.

 

Get busy all you serfs!

 

Hut, hut.....time's a-wastin'......the economy won't grow itself........