Taxpayers To Buffett: Get Over Yourself
Sep 24, 2010 Political
Warren Buffet, the guy who has more money than he knows what to do with, says that taxpayers need to get over their anger.
Taxpayer anger against President Barack Obama and Congress is counterproductive because policy makers took measures including deficit spending to stimulate the economy, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC.
“Sentiment has turned very sour in the last three or four or five months,” the chairman and CEO of Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said in an interview broadcast Thursday.
“I hope we get over it pretty soon, because it’s not productive,’’ Buffett said. “We will come back regardless of how people feel about Washington, but it is not helpful to have people as unhappy as they are about what’s going on in Washington.” Omaha.com
Perhaps Mr. Buffett, who uses our tax laws to avoid paying more in taxes, has forgotten that we the people are the government and we the taxpayers fund the government. Perhaps he thinks we should get over our anger at the way OUR money is spent but that is not a call for him to make. It is OUR money and we get to decide if we are angry at the way it is misused.
If we do not like banks and other businesses being bailed out then we have a right to be angry about it and we have every right to replace those who have gone against the will of the people.
Buffett might not realize that we have this right and perhaps he is blinded by his devotion to Obama. He backed the wrong horse and now he is chastising us for our anger.
Sorry Mr. Buffett but we the people will unleash that anger in November and we will make change you can believe in.
Nancy Pelosi would not drain the swamp so now we are going to do it for her and we are going to drain it to the bottom.
Buffett can keep his mouth shut and watch from the sidelines. If he wants, he can write a check to pay for the fiscal irresponsibility though he has benefited from it since his backing of Goldman Sachs was repaid after taxpayers bailed the company out.
So taxpayers to Buffett: Get over yourself. You are not that important and have no influence among the people. Stick to keeping your nose up Obama’s rear as you seem to like the view from there.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: anger, bailouts, goldman sachs, warren buffett
Maryland Legislative Hit List
Nov 11, 2007 Political
The Maryland legislature has voted on the largest tax increase in state history and it looks like the tax increases will become law soon barring any unusual events in conference. WBAL radio has posted a list of the vote and how each Delegate and Senator voted. No Republicans voted for tax increases and some of the Democrats joined them.
However, since the Maryland legislature is loaded with Democrats the votes easily passed. I urge every citizen of Maryland to look at the list and make a not of their elected leaders who voted to increase taxes and then vote those people out of office in the next election. I am glad that those who voted for these politicians and that idiot Martin O’Malley will get to feel the immense pain of not being able to make ends meet but I also realize that we need to make the politicians hurt as well.
Look at the list, print it out and put it on the refrigerator so you will be reminded daily of the people who caused the pain. Get your anger intense by election day and make them pay.
Tags: anger, citizen, Democrats, election day, maryland legislature, o malley, politicians, Republicans, tax increases, wbal radio