Category — Eastern Europe

The world is getting a taste of war. Not the lawyer kind the US Army is forced to fight, where combatants pretend to be civilians, where churches, mosques and schools are protected armories and our troops have to come under fire before locking and loading.

No, it’s the other kind of war, which our enemies fight. The one where tanks blow holes in homes and kill anything moving in front of them. So what if the tanks grind the bodies to burger as they punch forward for more blood.
This is the kind of war where the bombs are dropped on the towns, then the civilian deaths are blamed on the other side. Why not, the ACLU, Code Pink, the assorted other goofy lefties are not going to speak out on this carnage because the good guys are doing it!
An enormous lack of feck on the part of the anti-war crowd.

What have you heard from the MSM about this civilian slaughter? Yeah, they dropped some bombs. No screaming ledes like Women and children targeted, collateral damage extremely high from Russian attacks. Tanks shell homes as families flee. Where are those grabbers?

Is Obama looking back at a powerful USSR as the time of everything good? When this country was in a struggle with evil? We know the past eight years are not the time, for he has so said. He wasn’t around for the Great Depression so that era is out also.

Obama never has spoken to how well the Iron Curtain worked to keep the western people from rushing in to luxuriate in that splendid socialist state, the USSR. Recreation of those rosy years will contain the wonders like “The Ministry for State security” food shortages, gulags, Trabants, pollution, worthless money, internal passports, and state TV. Many more hearts desires too, I’m sure.

Solzhenitsyn can start spinning in his grave while he’s still fresh.

Now that the Chosen One has flitted about the Holy Land, managed to upset most of the inhabitants, and is heading to Germany to instruct them on proper social principles, the question which needs answering is, “Will Obama detour to Bulgaria to instruct his Socialist comrades on the error of their taxing ways?”

Obama considers himself the “Leader of the‘Free World” pre-ordination. Therefore, by divine right he must travel to straying socialist countries and correct their governmental missteps.

Thankfully, one member of the MSM dutifully enumerated Bulgaria’s miscues for us to fathom.

They listed the delinquencies, the rationale for those reshuffles, the results of repositioning and the dangers to Socialism accruing from those alterations.

I expect Obama to thoroughly chide the malefactors and wag the Holy Digit under their collectivist nose. Will he force the issue by fiat of “More Taxes or More Tanks!”
Here are the insufferable changes.

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“The situation was getting desperate in Bulgaria. We were losing our population and our best workers. They were leaving for Western Europe to find jobs and the No.1 form of foreign capital came from remittances.” All that began to change when the corporate tax was cut to 10% in 2007 and the personal income tax to 10% in January of this year. “We told the politicians that it was symbolically important for Bulgaria to have the lowest flat tax. We were surrounded by flat tax countries, we wanted to be the nation most friendly to capital and business.”

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“These countries understand that the flat tax is the key to their prosperity — even the former communists.” Only stultified political tactics — certainly not clear thinking — explains why somebody like Barack Obama could be running on a platform of making America’s tax rates among the highest in the world when other nations are proving the competitive advantages of flatter tax systems.

Difficult to figure out isn’t it.