Posted by
Stephen Meister on Friday, April 10, 2009 9:03:42 AM
Yesterday the NY Post ran the Somali Pirates' failed seizure of the food aid laden Maersk Alabama as their cover story. In the article the Post says: "Piracy has improved the economy somewhat around Eyl, in the northern Puntland Region [of Somalia]. Commerce has increased because the pirates bring cash to spend. The pirates have promised to build schools and better roads, but they have yet to deliver on those projects." (Emphasis supplied.) Remember Madlibs? Let's pretend the bolded words are blanks, and fill them in Obama style. Here's how the madlibbed version of the Post paragraph now reads:
"The Federal Government has improved the economy somewhat around D.C, on the Eastern Seaboard. Commerce has increased because the Senators bring cash to spend. The Senators have promised to build schools and better roads, but they have yet to deliver on those projects."
Are you beginning to see my point? Is there really such a big difference between a federal tax policy designed to effect a redistribution of wealth (v. paying for necessary government services like defense) and high seas piracy? Like Obama, the pirates see themselves as philanthropists who are simply "evening" out a wealth misallocation for the betterment of the people of Somalia. As the Post further reported, "One of the [pirates] insisted his pirate gang was not merely a band of ruffians, but a well organized, business-minded group that also had philanthropic concerns." Could not that same statement as well apply to Obama and his team? Remember when Obama made that idiotic and unpresidential remark when addressing Congress, in reference to how the $787 Billion in stimulus funds would be spent--"No one messes with Joe"? Does that sound like Obama's VP is a "ruffian" to you? Aren't Summers and Geithner "business-minded"? I am confident that the Somali Pirates, from their point of veiw, see no greater immorality in their actions--when committing high seas piracy and ransoming back the ships they sieze--than do Obama and his ruffians when they hold the citizens of our great nation hostage with threatened tax increases. The nice thing about stealing, is that it has been easy to justify since the days of Robin Hood.