We are blessed to be a blessing

Buffalo Grove, IL : "Tesla car owners, dealerships and charging stations have been targeted nationwide by protesters and vandals because of CEO Elon Musk's involvement with the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which aims to slash wasteful spending and fraud within the federal government."

Shocking. This story was about a suburban woman. The Left used to admire electric cars and tackling government waste and fraud. Obama and Clinton lauded it. Now we know that was all scripted by Soros and others who were drinking from the Government corruption hose. Our own citizens are having their brains warped and wounded by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They now hate what Democrats used to stand for.

 
I still want care for the environment. We forgot that in the "Green New Deal." Reduce waste and clean up after yourself. If we had a cabinet member for that we could all breath fresh air and not look at trash along every intersection. I want fair tariffs and honest government workers, and grants that go for worthwhile research instead of building academic empires. How did we end up with so much graft? The lower and mid-income in our country are the biggest, most generous (in percentage) and the two biggest corporate giants, Buffett and Musk , are the most generous in amounts. Rich or ordinary--we have been blessed to be a blessing. Let's get back to that value system.

Cook County woman allegedly vandalized Tesla service center in suburb | FOX 32 Chicago

Warren Buffett Tops List of Biggest Donations - Business Insider

Elon Musk: The Donations of the World’s Richest Individual Focus on Education and Innovation - CEOWORLD magazine

What does Warren Buffett have against black babies?

Even if you are pro-choice, you should be asking this question. Since 2000 he has funneled an incredible $4.7 billion to abortion providers as well as the vast array of activist, lobbying, and research groups insulating them in Washington. He uses a "philanthropic" foundation named for his deceased wife, but supports many such "do-gooders." We don't know the exact count but legal abortions he funded number around 4 million, but even before 1973, he was "helping" women get abortions. Almost 40% of abortions in the U.S. are for blacks--so he can put himself right up there with those 18th c. Arab slavers and Europeans who devastated Africa in the Atlantic slave trade. He also funds training of abortionists and abortions for black and brown babies in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The article is just gruesome in its thoroughness and complexity. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/296529/

51,312 abortions 2017-2018

What Warren Buffet gave through his foundation in 2001-2012 paid for 2.7 million abortions. One of the reasons he was able to complain about his low taxes (said his tax rate was lower than his secretary's) is that his taxes were reduced by these "donations." So we helped pay for the abortions he wanted.

No gulags; no death camps; no gas chambers; no lynching. Just financing abortions.

https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/10/warren-buffet-foundation-spent-77-million-on-abortion-enough-to-kill-220000-babies-in-abortions/

Warren Buffett huge supporter of abortion

Liberal billionaire Warren Buffett, the “Oracle of Omaha,” has donated more than $1.2 billion to abortion organizations from 2001 to 2012--$289,811,421 to Planned Parenthood. That's enough money to abort 2.7 million babies--the population of Chicago, or Kiev. If you give $1,000 to a ballot initiative to defend traditional marriage, that’s controversial. If you give $1.25 billion to promote abortion, journalists, who are wildly pro-abortion, don’t dare see any controversy.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/05/13/warren-buffet-donates-12-billion-to-abortion-groups/

One of the reasons Democrats, the party that supports abortion, are so eager for loose immigration laws is that our birth rate is below replacement and we have no way to sustain our standard of living or pay for our social benefits. It takes 2.1 children per woman for a generation to replace itself; ours is 1.88.

Back in my day. . .

Oh, young people love to hear that one, don't they? My chosen career, librarianship, was and probably still is, at the bottom of the pay scale for an advanced degree (entry level degree is a master’s but many have PhDs).  But I loved it. What could be more fun than buying, organizing, preserving and distributing information, knowledge and wisdom? ("For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage o...f knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it." Eccl. 7:12) I don't envy Bill Gates' wealth or the 3 winners of the Megamillions. In fact, my religion says coveting is very, very bad not only for a society but for me personally. However, my president says it's good. He wants "fairness," which actually means coveting what others have. If you don't believe me, try teaching fairness to 6 year olds--you'll create jealousy as they each eye what the other has and start to whine.

 
The Buffett rule is something for President Obama to talk about during the campaign so he doesn't have to face the huge economic problems he has created and to rail against “rich Republicans” if it fails.  The biggest, wealthiest donors are all contributing to Democrats, but don’t let the facts confuse him—he’s already way off track and it plays well with the unemployed he hasn’t helped.   He wants the government to take more of what you or someone else has, not to use for any particular purpose, but to satisfy a vague belief in "fairness."

The Buffett rule takes money out of the economy and gives it to the government, where it will be spread around the various bureaucracies, revolving door non-profits and unions and you'll never see a dime of it.

What does the Buffett rule achieve?

Nothing.  Obama calls it “fairness.”  I call it a ploy for more votes for people who don’t understand economics—and a few who do, like nancy g and Lynne W, but will vote for him anyway. What will “fair share” do for you?  Nothing. You’ll never see it, hear it, touch it, taste it. I’m not rich, and I don’t envy anyone, not if they inherited, won it gambling, or worked hard for it.  It doesn’t belong to me.  Three Maryland people have won the Megamillions.  Is that fair to all the others who paid in to it?  Well, the others obviously must have known the risk and the chances. But they got nothing.  Some might call it unfair that they were lured into spending money at impossible odds.  The richest 400 pay 19% every year, their secretaries pay about 16%.  Warren Buffett’s secretary, according to an article in Forbes probably makes about $200,000+ a year.  Is that fair to other secretaries who don’t work for Buffett, but work just as hard?  Why does she/he get so much? Why does she earn more than librarians?

This is not about the deficit or about taxes, it is about a politician’s idea of “fair” and we know all that money goes into the bureaucracy and not back to the people.  It’s never been any different in any society.  The word “fair” is guaranteed to create jealousy—how many times did you hear your kids whining about “fairness.” Just try it in any classroom of first or second graders, which is about the level the Democrats are right now.  The rich pay most of our taxes.  Is that fair?

I was a librarian.  One of the lowest paid jobs you can have that requires an advanced degree.  Is it fair that lawyers or hospital board members like the Obama couple back in the 90s could have 6 or 7 times my income just because of who they were?

Class warfare in a graph—the Buffett rule

The tiny, almost invisible smudge at the top is the Buffett reduction of the deficit. This nonsense us purely to create anger and hostility toward successful people and lie about how much they actually do pay in taxes.