Quote quiz
Usually every morning I check the Neal Boortz show’s program notes. He calls them “Today’s Nuze,” and the most recent version can be viewed here.
On his show notes for October 8th, 2007, he had a small quiz to see if readers could identify the source of a number of anti-capitalist quotes. You can read the quiz here, or read the quotes in the quote below.
“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
“It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few…and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.”
“(We)…can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”
“We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own…in order to create this common ground.”
“I certainly think the free-market has failed.”
“I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”
The source, as he identifies, is Hillary Clinton.
Boortz makes another great point about another Clinton quote in his notes:
Tags: [boortz, clinton, hillary clinton]Several weeks ago Hillary the Hideous loudly proclaimed that “privatization isn’t the answer to anything.” As I said at the time, this means that Hillary Rodham must think that government is the answer to everything … including education.
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Cline on Clinton
I just read an outstanding article written by Edward Cline titled “Hillary Clinton’s Uncle Ellsworth. In his post, he shows the similarities in the relationship between Saul David Alinsky and Hillary clinton and the relationship between Ellsworth Toohey and Catherine Halsey in The Fountainhead. This post of his really is a must read.
Compare that with Hillary’s quest for the meaning of her life in her letters to Peavoy. One letter to him she signs “Me,” parenthetically adding “the world’s saddest word.” That one brief signature can stand to represent the self-deprecatory remarks in all her other letters discussed by the Times. I do not think Hillary suffered from a crisis of self-respect, as Catherine Halsey did; I do not think she ever had a self to respect. She would have agreed with everything Toohey told Catherine, without Toohey having to exert much effort to convince her or having to resort to vicious put-downs.
It takes a village, or a Toohey, or an Alinsky, to fill such a void. This is a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Hillary has progressed from doubting the effectiveness of massive government programs to help the poor to seeing them as the only answer, in the name of “social justice.” Like Alinsky, like Toohey, she wishes to crush the individualist independence of Americans and replace it with dependence on the state – and she would be the state – chiefly because she has grown to fear and hate independence in anyone.
I love the first comment on this post, in which “Mike” responded “See, this is why I read this blog.” If you don’t have Rule of Reason on your blog reader, you must add it. Here is the current link to their RSS feed.
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Clinton tax quote context
Yesterday, Media Matters criticized the media for “ignoring the context” of a statement Hillary Clinton gave a few years ago. For those that might not immediately remember the quote, here it is as reported on that site:
Clinton said:
We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short [ed. Bush’s tax cuts] and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Media Matters reported that the Clinton’s statement was given to a crowd of people that she thought were “well enough off,” as if that fact makes it any better. The problem is not who Clinton made the statement to, it is the statement itself. The purpose of the government is not “to take things away from you on behalf of the common good,” it’s to protect individuals from people who would want to do so. I don’t think Clinton was blasted hard enough for this statement of hers back then, and I hope it comes out more as she goes further along the presidential race.
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Clinton on the free market
Myrah posted a quote from Hillary Clinton on C-SPAN that everybody should see:
Tags: [clinton, left]LAMB: There’s a quote here. I want to ask you if you agree with this. This is from Alan Arenhault, author of “The Lost City” — you put it in your book. “The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.”
CLINTON: I believe that. That’s why I put it in the book.