Cleaning out an old desk littered with papers from my past, I ran across this gem.  I don’t think I was the author, but judging from the papers I found it with, it must have been written circa 1990, and I was disturbed by Bush the Elder’s liberal mush, so it struck a chord.  It strikes an entire opus today.

“Not only did the Republican Party fail to articulate the important message of conservatism, the messages they did articulate were often in direct opposition to the coherent conservative philosophy, adopting as planks in the party platform measures that disavowed the party’s abhorrence of governmental interference into the personal affairs of the people of this nation.

               The Republican Party has a real challenge ahead.  We need to counter the empty humanitarian rhetoric of the liberals and articulate a real plan for divesting the federal government of its power and influence.  We do not need politicians who care about our needs, but politicians who respect us and are willing to protect our rights and allow us to take responsibility for our lives.”

Does it bother you that Wayne La Something or other would suggest that every school should have armed guards.  To me that implies that these armed guards should be provided by the federal government which would be in direct violation of the second ammendment which Wayne La something's magazine vows to protect. 

       Once again Warren Buffet is in the news insisting that the wealthy should pay more taxes. The problem is that the real wealthy, like Warren Buffet, would not be affected by a hike in income tax rates.  He and most of the really wealthy hold their wealth in the form of unrealized capital gains, not the type of income he proposes to raise taxes on. 

      A raise in the taxes on earned income is designed to prevent people from becoming wealthy.  In a 2004 interview with Charlie Rose, Buffet’s wife Susan said that his lifelong ambition was to become the richest man in the world.  He is using his influence in Washington to insure that he has no competition.

      If Buffet thinks men like him should be glad to pay more taxes, why doesn’t he pay his own?  He has been fighting the IRS since 2002 for the  over $1 billion in taxes that he owed than. And his unpaid tax bills are adding up.   Just last year NetJets, one of his companies sued for $642.7 million in taxes and this year the IRS is suing NetJets for an additional $366.3 million in unpaid taxes.

      Buffet is a snake oil salesman. He gets in bed with politicians and takes home the bacon.  When the president killed the Keystone Pipeline, Buffet won.  His Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad ships the oil.  The $700 billion bailout of U.S. banks saved his $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs.  He pays his lobbyists $9.8 million a year and he gets his money’s worth.

      Buffet is the kind of crony capitalist that is a cancer on the American character.