Shot Across the Bow of Reality

Joseph Cannon over at Cannonfire is a man with a lot of hate, and most of it is misdirected. However, even in his wild ranting of real global warming causing Katrina to purposely pick New Orleans to destroy and how Bush allegedly caused the whole thing, I saw one point in his fantasy rant that actually could be used constructively. I attach below a bit of his rather bitter and particulary assinine rant.

We Californians and New Yorkers already pay far more to the federal government than we receive -- unlike the folks in Texas and Alabama and Louisiana, who take and take and TAKE. And then they take some more -- even as they lecture us about spending. What sheer gall!Now those mother- (and sister- and brother-) fucking red state LEECHES want Californians to open their wallets even wider. Those Bush-loving Darwin-hating quasi-retarded brutishly-primitive hillbillies want us to fork over more of our hard-earned money in order to get them out of a deadly fix they brought upon themselves. Newsflash, y'all: If you want money from us blue-staters, you're also going to have to listen to our words. That's the price.No, we will not listen to anything you have to say in response. You are leeches. Leeches do not have the right to a response.You want us to give you a hand-out? Fine, we'll give it to you -- but ONLY if you sit still, hold your bloody tongues (bite 'em until they bleed, if you have to) and let a much-deserved lecture sink in. No lecture, no hand-out. It's that simple. You have to pay the price; otherwise, get the money from Jesus.The lecture comes down to this: BUSH CAUSED THIS DISASTER.

So, while it's nice that he thinks no one but Leftists have the right to speak their minds (sounds awfully like ole' Uncle Joe "the Steel man" Stalin, no?), he actually makes a point I've been trying to make to the left for years. If you don't want someone like Bush deciding where your tax money goes (and he doesn't, that's Congress' job), then perhaps you'll finally agree that the whole idea of tax redistribution, in which the federal government takes oodles from the States and the people and then redirects as they see fit, is ready for the scrap heap.

If you or anyone on the Left truly believes that bile you're spewing, perhaps you'll finally join with those of us who would rather see the States take care of themselves and use that money to their benefit. Perhaps it's a pipe dream, but reminding them how much they lose to the Feds might actually shock them into the reality that this whole taxation with minimal to no representation isn't all it's cracked up to be. Of course, that's just my opinion.