Wealth Redistribution on Townhall
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Restarting the Great American Jobs Machine Fri Dec 23Donald LambroThe Commerce Department's revised GDP report ?Thursday threw cold water on the fading hope that the economy is ?breaking out of its doldrums.? ... more
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The Rich Are Getting Richer; So Are the Poor Wed Dec 14Townhall.com Staff“No matter your thoughts about the Occupy Wall Street movement, the protesters were right in at least one respect: The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.” ... more
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Land of the envious and home of the victim Mon Dec 12Star ParkerWe are a land, as our president explains it, where the success of one American comes at the expense of another. Where the poor are poor because the rich are rich. And where the role of government is not to ensure “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” but to tax away wealth from those it deems to have too much and determine how to invest our nation’s resources. ... more
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Obama Is No Teddy Roosevelt Fri Dec 9Linda ChavezBarack Obama channeled Teddy Roosevelt this week in a speech in Osawatomie, Kan. Supporters are calling it the most significant economic speech of his administration. ... more
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Facts Are Stubborn Things Thu Dec 8Paul Greenberg"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams ... more
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Ending Income Inequality Wed Nov 30Walter E. WilliamsBenefiting from a hint from an article titled "Is Harry Potter Making You Poorer?", written by my colleague Dr. John Goodman, president of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis, I've come up with an explanation and a way to end income inequality in America, possibly around the world. ... more
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Michael BaroneWhat should be done about income inequality? That basic question underlies the arguments hashed out in the supercommittee and promises to be a central issue in the presidential campaign. ... more
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Larry ElderThere ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Everything demanded by the Occupy Wall Streeters -- whether "free" health care, a "world-class education" or a "guaranteed living-wage income regardless of employment" status -- costs money. ... more
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Kate Hicks
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Former Soviet Citizen Argues with Occupiers Tue Oct 25New York"You're one of the rich people they threw out of the country because you were robbing the people!" Warning: language. ... more
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Doug GilesBlameshifting, according to success expert Stephen Covey, is a key habit to being a hobbled and broke Occupy Occupuss. The other day I saw a trust fund baby Columbia grad at an OWS rally blathering about how Wall Street was “oppressing” him, and I’m sitting there thinking, “Yeah, sure. It’s Wall Street’s fault you can’t find gainful employment. ... more
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Robin Hood vs. the Occupiers Fri Oct 21Michelle MalkinWe have entered a new phase of the endless Occupy Wall Street sleepover. Not working is hard work. ... more
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Why Capitalism Glorifies God Mon Oct 17Katie KiefferI believe in one God, the creator of the universe. I believe that renouncing capitalism is irrational and that to deny reason is to deny the existence of God. ... more
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Obama Is Occupying America Tue Oct 11David LimbaughRational people realize that President Obama's policies have been an abysmal failure, which is why his only hope for re-election is to try to sow confusion among the voters, such as those populating "Occupy Wall Street." ... more
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Kate Hicks
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Tony KatzThere are some serious inconsistencies here. Corporate "greed" is the catalyst for millions of American paychecks. Global warming (the anthropogenic kind) has been thoroughly debunked and "social inequality" is just another way to say "social justice," which is just another wealth redistribution scam. ... more
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AmericaThere's just nothing like kind dialogue. ... more
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David LimbaughPoor President Obama. His leftist backers have momentarily fallen out of love with him for not destroying the country fast enough. Obama must ask himself, "What would Hugo Chavez do?" ... more
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Austin HillYou’re probably familiar with Barack Obama’s well documented intentions to “spread the wealth around.” In a discussion about his vision for economic recovery back during the campaign of 2008, he expressed that intention using those precise words ... more
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Oh, How America Has Changed Tue Aug 16Phyllis SchlaflyUSA Today published one of its colorful front pages last week detailing how America has not only grown dramatically in population over the last two decades, but has radically changed ethnically, geographically and culturally. The most costly of the many changes is the fact that having children has become increasingly detached from marriage. ... more
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Questions For A Nation That Has Lost Its Way Sun Aug 14Austin HillA new poll shows that 73% of Americans think our country is on the wrong track. Are you one of the seventy-three percenters? ... more
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Jack Bouroudjian“I’m afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States,” he said. “Those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the president.” ... more
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UN-economic(s) Sun Jul 17Paul JacobThe United Nations shockingly notices the obvious, and expectedly ignores it. ... more
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Austin Hill“Did you hear about the new ‘Obama Happy Meal Deal?’” a friend posted on Facebook earlier this week. “You order whatever you want and as much as you want, and the person in line behind you has to pay for it….LOL!” ... more
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What Would The Black Panthers Do? Fri Jul 8Kyle OlsonThe Black Panthers of the 1960s and 1970s and the New Black Panther Party today are known for employing violence, intimidation and radicalism to get their way. ... more
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Obama's Misleading Vocabulary Mon Jul 4Lurita DoanAs you celebrate the 4th, it might be appropriate to contrast the straightforward language of our founders with the weasel words now emerging from Washington, and all too frequently, from President Obama, who prefers euphemism-laden, convoluted, pixilated flummery. ... more
