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Friday, December 18, 2009

"Progressive" radio - same as it ever was.

Yesterday, I was listening to "progressive" talk radio host Mario Solis Marich's show on AM 760.

A caller asked him who was going to pay for the pending government health care takeover.

Mario, like Barack Obama, said it was not going to cost anything.

The caller questioned that dubious statement and asked how it was possible that millions of people were going to get something they do not currently have for free.

Mario, unable to answer that question, asked the caller why he thought that it would cost something. He condescendingly said that "just because Hannity said so isn't a good answer." Heretofore, the caller had not mentioned Hannity.

(The irony was apparently lost on Mario that he believes that free stuff is possible because that's what Obama says.)

When the caller refused to fall into Mario's trap of answering a question with a question, Mario started yelling at him for refusing to answer the question. Which, of course, is what Mario himself did just seconds earlier. (Again, the irony was lost on Mario).

Mario, however, has all the buttons that control the conversation. He used them to silence the caller. Then he mocked the caller for not having answers. (Irony? What irony?)

This brief exchange demonstrates that Fox News does not have a monopoly on misplaced arrogance. Mario Solis is no more interested in civil discourse than Bill O'Reilly.

1 comments:

Fester said...: You really have to take everything on talk radio with the understanding that most talk radio show hosts are really morons.

I used to call in to shows sometimes, but got tired of having the hosts not answer my questions, hang up on me and then "explain my position" which never was my actual position because they always assumed I fell into their little left/right box and I don't.

I heard an episode of Mario where he was discussing the Comcast buyout of NBC and he lost me with his whole predatory monopoly rhetoric. He had a guest who pointed out that cable companies are as big as they are because they are given government enforced monopolies for local distribution, but Mario thought that was just dandy, but the idea of the cable company owning a network station was somehow a dangerous monopoly.; December 19, 2009 2:21 PM

BlueCarp: Without Apology

I believe in freedom. Without apology.

Taxes encroach on freedom.

State power encroaches on freedom.

I am not an absolutist. I am not an ideologue. I am not an anarchist.

I believe that taxes and the state are necessary.

Yet so is water. Too much of it, and you drown. You die.

Taxation and state power have grown far beyond any legitimate usefulness they might have. Our society is drowning in both. We have given ourselves a fire hose when all we need is a Dixie Cup.

The United States government is the single largest employer in the country. This is obscene.

The government produces nothing of value. Nothing. Why are so many people necessary to produce nothing of value? They are not.

They are wasteful. Would that it were that was all. But they are worse than wasteful. They prevent actual production of value. The government makes it harder for people that wish to produce to do so.

Unreasonable licenses, fees, regulation, red tape and bureaucracy make it so.

Without the production of value, there are no jobs. There is no food. There is no shelter. People produce these things. Government does not.

Indeed, oftentimes people form corporations to produce things. Yet corporations are nothing. They are legal fiction. Corporations are nothing but the individuals that comprise them.

True, government is nothing but people that comprise it. The difference is that people are free to purchase things from the people in a corporation or not, yet people are forcibly coerced into giving money to the government.

To some, this government coercion is fine. To me, it is not.

I make no apology for being anti-government.

I am tired of being criticized for lacking compassion because I am against the government and against the forcible confiscation of people’s money. It is not the government’s job to provide compassion.

It is mine. It is yours.

By sloughing off the responsibility of “compassion” over to the government, some are relieved of the moral burden of being compassionate themselves.

If they vote in favor of government force to take other people’s money to help the needy, they are compassionate. They care. At least that is the fiction under which these misguided people operate. It is so much easier to believe in fiction than reality.

It is not compassionate to take someone else’s money for a cause, no matter how worthy. It is compassionate to voluntarily give money to a cause in which one believes.

Some say charity will never be sufficient to provide for all the worthy causes. That government taxation is necessary to provide for all of these worthy causes. I say these people’s definition of “worthy cause” is overly broad.

If people do not wish to give money to a cause, the cause is not worthy to that person. It is immoral to force that person to give anyway, because government deems it necessary.

It is so much easier to force others to donate than to ask nicely. If one has to ask, then the answer might be “no.”

The faux-compassionate, pro-government faction can not stand for that. They deem themselves too compassionate to give others that freedom.

I am anti-government. I am anti-tax. I am pro-freedom. I am pro-liberty.

And I make no apologies.

BlueCarp

Friday, December 18, 2009

"Progressive" radio - same as it ever was.

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