printThe excerpt is from “Can the Incredible Hulk Strike at Socialism?”, now on WND.COM:
“New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may be planning to join the Republican presidential thrust and ‘Perry.’ … references to Ronald Reagan do not make a speech Reaganesque. To be Reaganesque, Christie will have to expose the spirit of socialism—envy, entitlement, aggression—and juxtapose it with the morality of capitalism: commerce, creativity, comity.
Gov. Christie boasted that his ‘Executive Branch’ showed the requisite leadership, not least in educating the public before enacting solutions to New Jersey’s problems.
If Christie wishes to ‘educate’ the rest of the country, as he claims to have done for New Jersey, he would have to first strike at the assorted zero-sum, socialist notions, whereby one person’s plenty is portrayed as another’s poverty. Chief among these is the concept of ‘the American economic pie.’ This pie-in-the-sky is perverse in the extreme because it feeds the idea of a preexisting income pie from which the greedy appropriate an unfair share.
Wealth, earned or ‘unearned,’ as egalitarians term inheritance, doesn’t exist outside the individuals who create it. Wealth is a return for desirable services, skills and resources rendered to others. Labor productivity is the main determinant of wages—and wealth. Most wealthy Americans produce what they consume—and much more; they don’t remove or steal it from poorer Americans.”
Read the complete column, “Can the Incredible Hulk Strike at Socialism?” on WND.COM.
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UPDATE (Oct. 1): Clutching At Straws. Rasmussen Reports: Obama 44%, Christie 43%:
Few expect him to run, but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is essentially even with President Barack Obama in an early look at a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows that Obama earns 44% support in the matchup, while Christie attracts 43%. Six percent (6%) prefer a third option, and eight percent (8%) are undecided.
Christie has 3 things going for him: (1) his handsome symmetric physique, (2) he is apparently better than the insidious arrogant Perry or the insipid Ken-doll Romney (which is setting the bar very low) or the demagogic Obama, (3) he took on the New Jersey Oink Sector in a socialistic state. Still, after the nice rhetoric, is he proposing anything other than placing a band-aid on a cancer patient?? America needs radical surgery of the Welfare-Warfare Leviathan which is why I back “nutcase” Ron Paul.
As for the dirty rotten rich, I would like to eliminate welfare and allow an income/inheritance/corporate tax deduction whereby one saves $ 2 of tax for every $ 3 donated to any charities that provide 70% of their proceeds as emergency aid to the poor (like the Salvation Army). On this Jewish New Year, I say get the government out of foreign idiot wars and the Charity “Business” and let 1000 Soup Kitchens Bloom!
After the spending comes down, the tax rates can come down next (unlike Republicans who only work on the second item first).
I really like Christie’s public persona, his quick wit, and his physical presence.
I would like to see him remake NJ into a dynamic State that has sent back numerous FedGov programs and freed private industry to flourish BEFORE he runs for the POTUS. He is young and he has time to prepare.
Gov. Christie is certainly large and in charge. I hope he stands up to close scrutiny, unlike most of the other Republican prospects.
Read the full Wiki article on him before you express too much hope. The man appears to be a statist, and a corrupt one at that.
@ MyRon “As for the dirty rotten rich, I would like to eliminate welfare and allow an income/inheritance/corporate tax deduction whereby one saves $ 2 of tax for every $ 3 donated to any charities that provide 70% of their proceeds as emergency aid to the poor (like the Salvation Army)”
Waaaaaaayyyy to complicated for the avg. Joe & Jane to understand
How about limiting all State Local & Federales to a Max of 10% of GPD how ever they decide to collect it Sales, Income tax or fees etc .
Then you will take about 5 trillion of GDP out of control of the Government Weasels & put it into the hands of Citizens & Private sector
Then peeps can give much more to the Salvation Army (good choice ) or do with it as they see fit !