tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post4874692725867973677..comments2024-03-28T00:27:14.676-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: Remember Aaron Sorkin? Guy who thought the actors reading his linesFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-67599167241141964612010-12-11T09:45:58.385-08:002010-12-11T09:45:58.385-08:00If I could sit down for dinner with the Palins the...If I could sit down for dinner with the Palins there would be much to talk about. Hunting, fishing, the chance encounter I had with their son in Iraq (he drove me around Baqubah), even the difference between tax rates and gov revenues.<br /><br />It would be a little tougher with GW and Laura Bush, but he was a fighter pilot so we could swap war stories. He can use a chainsaw so we could talk about power tools. And he has a very ecologically sound house so we could talk principles of efficiency in design.<br /><br />If I could sit down for dinner with a Dem, I would feel very out of place. I don't understand the politics of envy that "social justice" advocates hold deep in their soul. I don't understand how a man who works should pay for a man who doesn't work.<br /><br />I don't understand why it isn't abundantly clear that our world leading corporate tax rates have been pushing manufacturing jobs overseas for decades. <br /><br />I don't want to redistribute our dwindling wealth, I want to set the conditions where people can build wealth. I don't want a punitive tax code, I want a fair tax code (everybody needs to pay something, even if it is as little as 1%).<br /><br />So if I sat down to dinner with Pelosi, I would be like a Hessian Mercenary sitting down to eat with Marie Antoinette. I would look the gentleman, but conversation would be trite. <br /><br />I have nothing in common with them, and they are an unapproachable aristocracy. Possibly they view me the same way, as hired help to fight the wars when told.SordidPandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00657526230826604643noreply@blogger.com