04.23.12

Rich Man’s Burden — a continuing series

Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll, Ted Nugent at 6:46 pm by George Smith

I was going to hold “Jesus of America,” a satirical tune for tomorrow when I had a video ready. But vignettes from the wire today so captured an insane meanness of American spirit there seemed no point in waiting.

From AP, on the Romney budget:

Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney’s way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education.

Romney also promises budget increases for the Pentagon, above those sought by some GOP defense hawks, meaning that the rest of the government would have to shrink even more

[Other cuts] include food stamps, school lunches, crop subsidies, Supplemental Security Income for very poor seniors and disabled people, unemployment insurance, veterans’ pensions and refundable tax credits to the working poor.

Based on the Romney materials, it’s impossible to project the size of the cuts to such programs. Suffice it to say, they would be controversial.

“There’s good reason why Ryan’s budget and the Romney budget don’t have details,” said Jim Horney, a budget analyst with the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy priorities think tank. “If people knew what it would actually have to be done to accomplish what they’re saying should be done, it’s hard to imagine there would be widespread support for it.”

Ted Nugent has been a more interesting study. The Secret Service has not shut him up but he’s fairly obviously been crippled by it. In compensation he’s pumped out two columns, one on demonizing the poor at the Washington Times, the other attacking the Lacey Act at Human Events.

Last week, Nugent accepted a plea deal in Alaska on a Lacey Act violation, transporting an illegally taken black bear over state borders.

From the WaTimes, the very poor man-woman’s Ayn Rand:

Here’s another blazing statement of the obvious: Poor people will quit being poor when our government quits enabling, bribing, training and rewarding them to be poor. Write that down.

People can and will do amazing things when Fedzilla removes its heavy bureaucratic boot off of their throats …

The very first thing that needs to be done to eliminate poverty is to stop punishing the producers and expand economic freedom …

While we desperately need to eliminate the vast controls over economic freedom on the wealthy, we also need to eliminate the government poverty programs that enable and encourage people to be poor instead of encouraging them to be free, independent, self-reliant people.

Government causes poverty because it enables poor people to continue to make poor decisions. If we want to win the war on poverty, we’ve first got to win the war against Fedzilla, which intentionally causes poverty …

From Human Events:

Since President Obama took office, Gibson has been raided twice by federal US Fish and Wildlife agents with guns drawn over suspicious wood. That’s right, guns drawn over wood …

Federal agents seized $500,000 worth of precious musical wood from India that is used to make Gibson guitars. The feds claim the wood was imported illegally from India, a violation of a heavy-handed law known as the Lacey Act.

Gibson has not been charged with a crime in either the 2009 or the 2012 raid, yet the special wood remains in Fedzillas clutches.

Good friend and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz fears Gibson may lose market share due to the loss of this very specialized wood.

This is the result of President Obama’s Department of Injustice run amok …

Had Gibson Guitars donated money to the Democratic Party or were members of the New Black Panther Party we can be sure that there would have been no raids with guns drawn and no wood confiscated …

The column, old news on Gibson, is meaningless unless you know that last week Nugent’s lawyers accepted a plea deal on a conviction under the Lacey Act. Nugent must be apoplectic over being tagged as serial hunting scofflaw — two convictions in two years, both stemming from hunts staged for his tv show. One might imagine his reputation to be trash among reasonable hunters, people who manage to stay out of trouble — a ten k fine’s worth — and the news.

An AP article in the Juneau newspaper indirectly explains Nugent’s predicament and why he railed against the Lacey Act without mentioning himself, by way of his attorney:

The plea agreement says Nugent illegally shot and killed the bear in May 2009 on Sukkwan Island in southeast Alaska days after he wounded a bear in a bow hunt, which counted toward a state seasonal limit of one bear for that location. The agreement says Nugent knowingly possessed and transported the bear in misdemeanor violation of the Lacey Act …

“It’s kind of embarrassing for him because he practices ethical hunting and advocated ethical hunting and gets caught up in a crazy law that none of us have heard about,??? [Nugent’s attorney] said.

Nugent’s loss of that deer hunting license through June 2012 allows 34 other states to revoke the same privilege under the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact. Each state, however, can interpret and enforce the agreement differently.

“Now if we can just blow the head clean off the Fedzilla beast in November, this sort of government abuse will come to an end, of that I am certain,” he concludes.

Paradoxically, the investigation of Gibson was started under the Bush administration.

And now — the song —“Jesus of America.”

Jesus fed the poor with loaves and fishes
He really liked the lepers, too
Then he found the land of liberty
And America taught him what to do

Jesus of America said don’t feed the poor…
If you do they’ll come right to your door
They’ll end up like stray cats, shedding on the floor.
That’s what Jesus said.

Wealthiness, just like Godliness
That’s what Jesus taught
Jesus of America sez guns, not butter
The rest just goes all for naught

Jesus of America said don’t feed the poor
They are just too lazy, they’ll never work at all
Jesus of America sez tax the weak and sick
They’re always gonna be that way, never worth a lick

Sing for Jesus Lord

Jesus of America, sing praise for the best
You know our faith informs us, nothing for the rest
Wealthiness leads to Godliness
That’s what Jesus taught

Republican Jesus, he’s our favorite guy
He believes in markets, sing praises to the sky
If Jesus said it, you know it must be true
So now it’s time to whip the poor, you know what to do!

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