The Grass Is Always Greener
And the British state excels at it.
Having suffered under a socialist government for 12 years now, the UK’s present is America’s future. Inconceivable amounts of taxpayer money have flooded public programs, as the Left has attempted to solve problems by doing nothing other than flinging more and more money at them.
And it hasn’t improved anything. NHS patients still die waiting (or because of) treatment; pupils physically, mentally and sexually assault teachers, who are not allowed to discipline the feral brats; the military is over-stretched and under-funded; the police are restrained by so much paperwork that they rarely see the streets they’re supposed to be patrolling; etc etc.
Not that this has had any impact whatsoever on the tax-and-spend trolls of the Left. Indeed, it has only enhanced their hunger for punitive taxation, as the problem (obviously) is that the state has not wasted spent enough already.
So it is that the Labour government once again resorts to stealth taxation, as it has well over 157 times before in this incarnation.
This time around, Brits will be punished for having earned any comfort in life that exceeds a roof over their heads. Should their home have a view, patio, balcony, conservatory, garage, parking space, be near a bus stop or in a quiet location, swimming pool, tennis court, stable or just about anything else that may enhance their quality of living, then those homeowners will be punished by the embittered failures on the Left who despise personal success, because your success must have resulted in someone else’s failure.
Click here for the horrific story.
Aside from increasing the tax burden, this initiative will also fulfill other permanent left-wing aims, as it requires even more intrusion into our private lives (how long before the government demands to know how often we use the bathroom each day and allows us only two flushes per 24 hours?) and the employment of another small army of box-ticking morons who are too useless to be employed anywhere worthwhile.
But this is ok. Because Labour is going to be massacred at the next election, and they are only making things worse for themselves. Whereas the UK is about to leave the Dark Ages, the US is only just entering them.
(PS – My internet connection has been about as fast as this guy for the past couple days and there are still some lingering problems, just so y’all know that I’m not ignoring you…)
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July 26th, 2009 at 16:44
I was reading in The Daily Mail this weekend about the problems the MoD is having is getting just 7 or 8 helicopters upgraded to go to Afghanistan, second-hand airframes from Denmark, I think. That’s sad.
July 26th, 2009 at 16:50
The CONgress has never learned from the mistakes of any other country that it holds up as an example for the millions of entitlement brats. And the brats in return have been so dumbed down that they wouldn’t even THINK to actually research and find out if the claims of European utopia are even true. They just hold out their hands and say “more!”. I say, keep it up! Keep stealing our money and livelyhoods and watch what happens in the next election. Obumbo didn’t win by a landslide and there is a lot of buyer’s remorse going on. I have no pity for those said buyer’s. He never hid what he was all about. There are videos on youtube of his speeches. Anyone could’ve watched them to see what he was really about, but they chose to listen instead to the Lamestream Media who gushed with liberal puppy love every time he blinked at his teleprompter. I believe it was Ben Franklin who said, “We get the government we deserve.” Well, to all who voted for his large-assed egoness: Hope y’all like the hope and change! Next time, maybe you’ll actually use yer fuckin’ brains to do some homework before you cast a vote. Consequence is an unforgiving teacher.
July 26th, 2009 at 23:16
Please God, don’t let Obama and those nitwits in Congress get a hold of this post. They don’t need any more ideas squeeze us dry.
July 27th, 2009 at 02:33
Tangential idea culled from a comment over on Hot Air: when you see a car with an Obama sticker on it, just equate it to a bumper sticker saying “Moron on Board”.
Better yet, maybe a small bumper tape saying the same thing that one could put clandestinely over the Obama sticker. You know, like the “Gay..and proud of it!” bumper stickers you put on your friends’ rear bumpers? they ride around for weeks and not notice it.
*chortle*
July 27th, 2009 at 08:44
My internet is still screwed, it took half-an-hour for this comment to register. It’s imperiling my readership!
Steve, that is pathetic and true. We’re short-changing our military (aside from the helicopters, they’re forced to use land vehicles that we know have insufficient protection against IEDs).
Anon, people voted with their hearts and not their brains, as you state. In the absence of any intellectual merit behind any of their proposals, the Left relies on emotional appeal. using words (which I’m sick of hearing) such as “equality”, “fairness” and “justice”, which can mean whatever you want them to mean.
TCL, oooh, I’m sure Barry has been studying the UK and is just overflowing with stealth taxes of his own. The soda tax?
WCPUAM, that’s both devious and funny, like it!
July 27th, 2009 at 11:52
Войска ПВО–Years ago a popular bumper sticker was: I love cats! Dead ones! My friends and I somehow came into possession of a roll of “fuck” stickers. We would peruse parking lots and when we found a car with that particular sticker on it, we’d put the “fuck” sticker over the word love. I laughed wondering how many weeks or months they drove their car around with the bumper sticker that said, I fuck cats! Dead ones! I was having flashbacks thinking about placing a fuck sticker between Obama and Biden on the bumper stickers of cars driven by these idiots who support the theft of the middle class to fund the poor and more importantly the elitist left of Barry and his cronies.
July 27th, 2009 at 15:21
Anon,
Too funny! We should work on it.
..although, I am seeing more and more Obama stickers that are half-way scraped off; clearly evidence of buyer’s remorse.
July 27th, 2009 at 21:52
We used to do the same thing, Anon…we had stickers that were pictures of screws, and we’d place them over the hearts….
I screw NY, I screw my Labrador Retriever, I screw Dukakis….we had a field day!
Every time I see an Obama sticker I wanna smash the windshield with a ball-peen hammer.
I saw some asstard back last October with a “Veterans for Obama” sticker on his car & almost puked. Then I got passed on the interstate by some old rich white guy in a freakin’ Rolls Royce with an Obama sticker on the back…ugh.