Obama spoke at a sold-out climate change conference on May 9, and met with former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, all the while staying at a $20,000 per night villa in Tuscany and taking two floors of the Park Hyatt hotel in Milan - where presidential suites cost nearly $10,000 per night.
Obama's Italy Trip Costs Shocking Amount (Photos)
May 10, 2017
by Sean Kelly
Obama's Italy Trip Costs Shocking Amount (Photos)
May 10, 2017
by Sean Kelly
Obama's Italy Trip Costs Shocking Amount (Photos)
It is bad enough when sitting presidents spend tax dollars promoting their personal beliefs, but it should be a crime when a filthy bum former president is paid tax dollars to spread his parasite philosophy that opposes everything an overwhelming majority of Americans stand for.
Calling Obama a Communist, or a Muslim, or a self-appointed spiritual leader as I often do misses the point. Everything Obama says justifies being a parasite. It comes naturally to him. Every statement he makes is rooted in a parasite’s envy. Every word he ever said about government establishes the non-existent Rights of parasites. Every word he ever said about compassion strengthens a parasite’s grip on the public purse. The fact is that Obama is not hiding his true personality. Obama is the champion of every parasite in the world. He can no more hide his parasite character than a decent man can hide his decency. Obama is a parasite and nothing more.
Obama is a parasite in all things. His statement about work is most telling:
But that is going to require a reorganization of the social compact. That requires we change our mindset about the link between work, income and value of people in the teaching profession, or in healthcare, or in certain things that cannot be done by AI or a robot.
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by sundance
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I put together some observations about work (labor) that I discussed on message boards for 17 years. My intent is to dispute Obama’s parasite garbage, and to show he is only reworking parasite ideology that has been around for thousands of years in one form or another.
Sound bite mentalities be forewarned.
Let me begin with:
“. . . change our mindset about the link between work, income and value of people . . .”
“Work” is where parasites like Obama always run into a truth they devote their lives trying to discredit. Parasites must convince private sector wage earners that they are working “with” the government for their own benefit, or for the “common good.” No matter the brand of baloney it implies that parasites living on tax dollars actually make a contribution to mankind. That is not the case and never will be. Somebody has to be in charge, and the guy in charge does not do the work; most especially not with his or her hands at the manual labor level. If parasites of the world want to talk about “working with” everyone to achieve equal distribution of the work, including stoop labor, I am willing to listen so long as they are included in the starting lineup for a shift or two over at the pickle factory.
Basically, two workers on a production line are not working with each another; they are both working for themselves first —— then the supervisor, and ultimately for the owner and the company. No employee that I ever met ever thought they were working with their fellow employees either. And you can bet that the guy or gal working in a nice air-conditioned office does not want to share equal distribution of perspiration with the laborer out on the loading dock.
NOTE: It has been said that two parallel lines meet in infinity. I am willing to swear on the Holy Bible, the Communist Manifesto, and the latest issue of Playboy, that “working for” and “working with” will never meet in infinity or anywhere else.
The best way to illustrate one of the ways Mammon and the devil conspire is to look at an item that is selling a retail item for a dollar with a five percent sales tax attached. Manufacturers and retail outlets double the price of an item to two bucks —— they lose half of their customers, yet both are ahead of the game because raw materials, production, transportation, and labor costs go down.
The tax collector loses nothing because he gets his ten cents on two bucks instead of five cents on one buck. This government-approved price-rigging scheme would not be important were it confined to items the public can live without. It would not matter if a company went under because it lost all of its customers by doubling the price of a nonessential piece of retail junk, but it is dangerous when parasites exercise their part of the bargain by setting food production levels, as well as setting production levels in essential areas.
In the real world taxes are usually referred to in percentages. The Ministry of Propaganda converts labor to money then reduces labor to an abstract even further by talking percentages. Increase taxes by 2% or 20% —— the percentage amount does not matter to the parasites who will not do the work taxes come from anyway.
Sometimes parasites are forced to talk dollars. The worker earning twenty-five thousand dollars a year will be required to pay a tax increase amounting to $200 dollars a year. (Obamacare is a lot higher.) Whether we use dollars or percentages, reverse the formula and see where it leads us. My totals do not include sick days, emergencies, etc., but my numbers are close enough for me to make my point without getting lost in minutia.
Take an employee that goes to a job forty-eight weeks of every year. To arrive at forty-eight weeks I allowed for two weeks of vacation, and a generous ten paid holidays. (Most lower income employees only get five, six, or seven holidays a year.) Now reduce 48 weeks to the number of days actually worked:
7 x 48 weeks equals 336 days. Now deduct Saturdays & Sundays.
336 minus 96 days equals 240 days of actual labor.
Now discuss taxes in terms of labor instead of talking about an abstract percentage.
Approximately 110 days of actual labor each year goes to pay taxes of one kind or another. Tax watchdog groups, less generous than I, say that a worker toils to pay taxes for the first five and half months of each year. No matter how we do the math, it is slavery whether you break it down into days or months.
Now that we are thinking about taxes in terms of labor propose a tax increase this way: The government only wants to enslave you for five more days a year. Now you will work for your parasite masters 115 days a year instead of 110. A politician preaching tax reduction can then say: “I want to give everyone five more days of freedom to work for themselves. Under my plan an individual will only work for Socialism 105 days a year.” (Do not hold your breath until elected parasites talk taxes in those terms.)
Wage-earners at the low end of the scale, usually employees who work with their hands, may not pay a lot when they file a tax return, but they pay 110 days of their labor just the same: Sales taxes, transportation taxes, property taxes which are paid to their landlord if they are renters, and so on. Since they earn so little their taxes are compounded and hidden in the cruelest of ways after they pay their bills. Every one of their hard earned dollars is taxed and taxed again as they make their way into parasite bank accounts.
The ultimate tax burden in a parasite society always fall on the backs of the lowest income workers no matter how the books are cooked to make it look otherwise. Low income employees pay plenty regardless of the public relations horse manure that is fashionable nowadays.
Given a vote, private sector Americans might agree to a personal income tax of 5% which would amount to 12 days of labor. They would be fools to vote for such a thing, but not the big a fools they are now. In any event, private sector wealth creators should have a lot more control over every aspect of taxation than they will ever have in a parasite’s welfare state.
The conversion
Effort is converted to money. Taxes are paid with money. Rich parasites pay their taxes with the labors and skills of the many without parasites having done anything of value to begin with. That applies to parasites who run businesses that are subsidized with taxes, or established and protected by favorable legislation.
True private sector employees and employers create wealth through mutually agreed upon alliances. A successful businessman or businesswoman in the private sector assumes the responsibility of meeting payrolls, running the business whether it be large or small, directing the labor force, etc. There is a very real difference between a tax dollar millionaire and a successful private sector entrepreneur. Every employee is free to walk away from a rotten boss in the private sector, but how do you walk away from a government parasite with the authority to control your life, your labors, and your resources?
NOTE: In effect, a wealthy tax dollar parasite’s taxes are simply another tax on the working poor.
If the Americans continue down Parasite Lane they might as well writeoff individual liberty right now and get on with it because parasites will always claim all resources for the state. Labor is the wealth of a nation; therefore, parasites will never rest until everyone is paying 365 days of labor a year in taxes. I mean everyone in the private sector, not just those who work with their hands. And do not think that private sector employees will at least get a one day break when leap year rolls around. That will be covered, too. A parasite can snuff out freedom quicker than they can say “Trust me.”
The highest price that private sector, low income, workers pay is the loss of individual liberty abolished by the very tax system that enslaves them even further as more leeches find their way to the tax trough. The low income segment of the workforce will never be able to offset taxes through interest-earning savings because they can never earn enough to save anything. Then, adding insult to financial injury, parasite teachers who are amongst the biggest beneficiaries of the income tax say that education is the only way out of poverty.
Of course teachers have a point since they did so much to destroy individualism and the American spirit of freedom. Institutional based knowledge used to be just one way out of poverty. Under the parasite’s goal of institutionalizing everyone freedom becomes the only way out for a person who lands in a soft spot tax dollar job of one kind or another. Example: Some years ago building maintenance workers at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts were paid between two and three hundred thousand dollars a year. I would call that a soft spot no matter what kind of education is required.
Government-sponsored job tenure is the machinery that feeds the parasite class. Lifetime tenured employment is a reward that is promoted by parasites. That is not the same as parasites in government doing a whole lot of actual work; it simply says that they will have a paying job. The beauty is that slavery guaranties full employment for tax dollar parasites s well as full employment for slaves who pay those taxes.
Whether or not a private sector job pays anyone enough to buy the creature comforts that everyone hopes to acquire is not open to question as failed parasite paradises show. Only a fool will work hard for parasites, while leeches will figure out how to do no work at all knowing that their incomes are secure. The cardinal rule says that lifetime tenure at the public trough must be a better life than life in the private sector regardless of how much a private individual’s labors might produce.
In time, once freeloaders like Obama get a foot in the door they end up in charge. Proof: The most famous parasite that ever lived is no longer in office, yet his parasite policies like Obamacare are being enforced. Note that Karl Marx preached the parasite ideology without ever living on tax dollars, while Obama always fed at the public trough at the same time he preached parasite Rights.
The curse
Lifetime tenure at the trough is the curse of Capitalism. Lifetime tenure undermines the desire to excel, to achieve, to acquire society’s rewards through enlightened desire, individual effort, and voluntary contribution. Tenured Socialism feeds extremely well on taxes generated by capitalism because it is encouraged to flourish in government at the same time that it drains the lifeblood from the very free enterprise system that nurtures it. Lifetime tenure becomes a double curse when it is encouraged to undermine the private sector workplace. The U.S. achieved much of its greatness before lifetime tenure was chiseled in stone.
Refer to Obama’s comments in Italy and it is obvious that he sees a parasitic America followed by a parasitic world in which all labor is performed for the maintenance and benefit of a global ruling class of parasites who see themselves as morally and intellectually superior to the people they feed upon.
Around the time Obama was born a two-breadwinner family would have been living pretty good whether they rented or owned their home. Today there are a great many two-breadwinner families who barely make ends meet; especially if they own their home. When both spouses work full-time, the first five and one half months of their combined labors goes towards paying various taxes which mostly benefit Obama and his parasites at home and in Third World countries. Hell, the U.S. would be better off if American parasites volunteered to go live in those Third World countries. Then they could teach non-parasites an object lesson by practicing hands-on Socialism where they feel it is needed and leave the rest of us to starve to death under freedom’s poverty.
NOTE: The value of all skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled labor is determined by the lowest common denominator Overcrowded Third World countries will not be brought up to American living standards, but rather the American private sector will have its standards lowered to Third World standards; i.e., private sector workers will be equally underpaid; particularly those men and women who work with their hands.
Here is the real kicker. Parasites continue to slam capitalists as though it is capitalism that requires taxation in order to survive. Parasites are the ones who want to sell everything at higher prices in order to bring put more taxes into government coffers, which in turn allows parasites to use those taxes to create even more unnecessary government. It is parasites who force price increases, and it is parasites who extend the hours of labor the lower end of the workforce must toil just to maintain some dignity. As more parasites belly up to the public trough, the private sector wealth creator must work harder to pay for the newcomers.
Finally, Codifying individual responsibility in the form of individual Rights was sold as the best way to strike a balance between liberty and the inherent flaws in both government and organized religion. In order to make the welfare state a viable concept American parasites had to pervert the definition of responsibility. The two best known distortions are these:
1. Paying taxes in pursuit of “the common good” turned into a compassionate responsibility.
2. Parasites quoted Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) so as to make the people in government the definitive evildoers if they did nothing:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke, a British politician who pleaded for American colonists in parliament, spoke those words more than two centuries ago. Nevertheless, after countless centuries of philosophers and wise men warning against government, the folks in present-day government embraced Edmund Burke’s one-liner faster than hustling girls caress big spenders. Bad men, and bad women, in government gleefully accepted the burden of responsibility by taxing everyone.
Considering evil’s many triumphs in recent decades, liberty-loving people everywhere will be a lot better-off when good men return to doing nothing.
Claire Booth Luce (1902 - 1987) nailed it:
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
followed by another well-known chestnut:
The highway to hell is paved with good intentions.
Now lets look at good intentions.
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main. Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne (1572 - 1631).
What bunk metaphysical poet John Donne unintentionally dumped on today’s world with a little help from Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961). Irrespective of how Donne’s words have been interpreted by twentieth century organized religion’s bottom feeders, the most profound observation Donne made was that “Everybody dies.” That frivolous allegation was harmless enough when it was expressed in Donne’s own time; so it is no wonder he remained obscure until Ernest Hemingway dug him up in 1940. It is just too bad that we will never know what put Donne onto his penetrating insight.
Hemingway’s motive for resurrecting Donne is suspect because he played fast and loose with Donne’s assertion in order to buttress his own politics. Common sense insists that John Donne could not possibly have had the butchery of modern totalitarian governments in mind when he wrote his dubious small masterpiece some 400 years ago.
In the past seventy years propagandists promoting big government have elaborated on the catchphrase “No man is an island” so as to make individuals think they are selfish if they do not get involved in every cause and embrace every criminal freak spewing out of television’s blowhole.
On a more mundane level, “No man is an island” translates into supporting unrestricted taxation for the good of all. I will leave it to you to determine who is most guilty of gluttony at the public feed tub for the good of all.
“Every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main” has come to mean involuntary obedience to the tax collector’s view of decent behavior. Even without help from Donne and Hemingway, subservience to sycophants was inevitable when private sector Americans allowed the tax collector to define the nation’s morality. Anyone thinking otherwise is either naive, or is a recipient of the tax collector’s ill-gotten revenues.
“Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind” has to be the touchy-feely congregation’s anthem. Actually, that creed is more suited to an anthill type society:
“Any ant’s death diminishes me because I am just like every other ant.”
If you do not agree with my view of ants in general, put the monotonous little pests aside and just consider the number of people who die each day. If you are honest you will have to conclude that the “I care” mob would have dwindled away to nothing by now if every death truly did diminish them. Speaking straight from the shoulder, I go to bed every night without giving recently departed strangers a passing thought. I sleep very well, too; so I must be one selfish dude.
“Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee” is the real grabber. What sort of morbid geeks want to know who just croaked whenever they hear a bell toll? I seldom read newspapers, and I only read obituaries when my wife calls my attention to one; so I sure as hell will not dash on over to the nearest marble orchard to find out for whom the bell tolled. Besides, I would know it if the dearly departed had been a loved one or an acquaintance of mine. If I did not know a stiff personally before he checked out his death would be none of my business no matter how many bells were ringing.
As for Ernest Hemingway: In that final second before he killed himself did he still believe the “No man is an island” drivel he made so famous? Or did he simply prove the hard way that every man is an island when all is said and done?
This is what Hemingway had the character Robert Jordan say of his father in For Whom the Bell Tolls:
“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.”
Hemingway spent his adult life slaughtering things because his father had committed suicide. Every time he killed something he was granting his father absolution. When the burden finally became unbearable, Ernest Hemingway decided that his own suicide would serve as the definitive pardon. What might he have written had he been able to forgive in a less violent manner?
Of all the words ever strung together to express an opinion none are more cultivated by parasites than Donne’s words, nor more misunderstood by the manipulated. Not even spreading the golden rule rivals the transmission of Donne’s communal masterpiece among the American Left. Donne’s words are the words of a cleric written in a time when organized religion was deeply entwined with the monarchy; i.e. the government. Donne’s words are a call for voluntary servitude to religious and civil authorities; written almost two centuries before this country’s Founders blew such servitude out of the water.
More than three centuries passed before JFK’s speech writer, Ted Sorensen, updated Donne’s message with these words:
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you --- ask what you can do for your country.”
I do not know of any other words that did more to fool Americans into believing that the government is the country. George Orwell would have been proud of JFK’s oft-repeated quote because it is pure newspeak. JFK’s paradigm makes more sense when the word government replaces the word country.
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your government can do for you --- ask what you can do for your government.”
Limited government was hardly uppermost in the minds of Donne or JFK. Notice that JFK and Donne never mention government or religion.
JFK was Catholic. John Donne was raised a Catholic but renounced Catholicism and eventually joined the Anglican Church at the king’s insistence. I believe that our Founding Fathers not only rejected Donne’s assumption on the face of it, but they also wanted to reverse any lingering British influence in an independent America. In my view, America was a quantum leap in government structure not a modification of European governments as Europeans and many Americans seem to think.
The Founders dealt with England’s eighteenth century totalitarian government in one fell swoop by restricting its reach to the new government in America. They did it brilliantly by enumerating the government’s powers. In terms everyone except parasites understand, the Constitution tells those personality types who always go into government:
“This is what you can do. It is none of your business if it is not written here.”
The Founding Fathers dealt with Donne’s opinion in the First Amendment. Now Obama’s parasites are bringing free people back to totalitarian government and religion as a single governing entity. The bell is tolling for thee alright, only this time out Obama's parasites are ringing the bells.
