Sunday, November 16, 2008
Before the election, Howard Stern's Sirius radio show conducted interviews in Harlem, N.Y., in which the interviewer, not identified with the show, recited John McCain's economic proposals but portrayed them as Barack Obama's.
Not knowing whose ideas they actually were, these people raved and gave them their full support.
The election of Obama is an example of Americans voting against their own self interest. It's also further evidence of the dumbing down of America.
Trying to explain how our economy works and why lowering taxes is always better for them and America than imposing higher taxes is an economic bridge too far for many of the Obama sheep.
Unfortunately there is no See Spot and the Economy Run book. Many Americans can't balance a check book or spell e-c-o-n-o-m-i-c-s, but they sure know who will give them stuff. The lie is impossible.
Expecting them to have analyzed the tax positions of Obama and McCain and arrived at a decision that truly benefits them and America is wishful thinking.
The reason is that they know zilch about how the economy operates and — worse — they don't care. Obama will take care of us.
They are dunces, products of a failed public education system. That is, if they even bothered to complete high school. They don't read newspapers. Even if they did, I've got $20 that says they couldn't comprehend what they read.
We'll all pay
When President Obama imposes his wrong-headed, punitive tax structure, such stupidity is going to come back to thump these supporters upside their vacuous heads.
Capitalism works in strange and wondrous ways, and has a unique way of severely punishing fools.
As for this economy: These dunderheads have no clue how the economic mess was largely caused by Democrats, including Obama.
But Obama, trusting in the gullibility of the masses, drummed into Americans minds that the economic mess was caused by President Bush and the Republicans.
He promised to 95 percent of Americans a tax cut when 40 percent of Americans don't pay any federal income taxes.
McCain had no marketable answer to Obama's charge because McCain knew that attempting to explain the economy to dumb people is impossible in 30-second commercials.
Clowns like the idea of believing they are getting something for nothing. What they receive, however, is always scraps from the economic table. Stupidity sentences these people to lives of poverty and despair.
The Obama tax plan punishes the producers — the people who employ the majority of Americans. In Joe the Plumber terms, economic excrement will quickly flow downhill and punish the employees — I mean former employees.
Here's a slogan: The result of spreading the wealth around is spreading unemployment around.
The McCain economic plan was based on the type of tax cuts which spur the economy forward, create jobs and raise the standard of living for everyone.
It is pretty simple stuff except for the comfortably ignorant, the easily manipulated and the person who believes someone owes him or her something.
Ted Nugent is a Waco-based musician and television show host. Contact him directly at tednugent.com.
