This posting is about another funny email from a friend. It’s funny because it’s so off-base and factually wrong. For me, slashing through this posting is like a 99-yard run to the end zone without being touched by one tackler.

I’ve been waiting to write on this email for a few days now. This is so ripe with bias and idiocy.

The email is a parody that says the Pittsburgh Steelers have to return 3 of their 6 Super Bowl trophies by order of President Obama.

Obama’s plan calls for the Steelers, who are a successful NFL team, to give half of their Super Bowl trophies to teams that are not successful or have not been as successful as the Steelers. “The Detroit Loins are just as much a part of the same fiber of the NFL as the Steelers and they should, no rather will, be entitled to a Super Bowl Trophy as well.” Obama explains in his plan that he has imposed on (NFL Commissioner) Godel and the NFL.

If you send this to anyone without the subject line, “This is so stupid it’s funny”, then you’re guilty of being a political shill.

First, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dan Rooney, is a life-long Republican who publicly backed Obama. Mr. Rooney is now Ambassador Rooney living in Dublin, Ireland. 

Second, the NFL, if looked at with an economist’s eye, is the most Socialistic organization in America. It restricts how much money a team can pay its players.  It also makes teams share – that Marxist word – revenues.

They should re-name the Philadelphia Eagles the Philly Trotskies. (It works if you had a bad Philly Cheese Steak if you catch my trot drift.)  And why not re-dub the Patriots the New England Comrades?  Belechek, Apparachik; It’s all borscht to me.

Why is this manly organization that is considered a pillar of American strength and ingenuity really so Marxist?  They want to create parity among the teams. Ironically, the league is financially successful. One reason: each year each team actually has a chance to win a Super Bowl. There aren’t too many dynasties in the NFL. And look the lowly Phoenix Cardinals were only 20-seconds away from winning the Super Bowl and legitimately taking away a trophy from the Steelers.

In other words, the Communists like Paul Tagliabu, Roger Goodell, and the late Wellington Mara, along with Dan Rooney, created a level playing field so each team could compete and thrive. 

If the creator of this email had his or her way only the New York Giants, due to their market size and the amount of money they can earn, would win each Super Bowl?  That would be like Wall Street controlling every law without regard to Main Street.

That’s just the sports side of it.

Obama is raising the tax rate. But he’s raising it to the rates seen in the Reagan and Clinton terms from 36 to 39 % — in two years.

Now, if Obama raises it to 90%, as it was during the term of that Sandinista Dwight D. Eisenhower, then you can make a good case for Obama’s place in Red Square. 

Unfortunately, this silly thinking has been created by both political parties. The Republicans have convinced too many Americans that they’re rich, while Democrats have made too many Americans think they’re entitled to jobs. 

We’re neither rich nor entitled: we’re greedy.  (That internet posting, however, shows we’re also stupid about politics as well as sports.)

The low-tax, high spend era of Bush and the end of Clinton created the housing, stock, oil, and credit bubbles that have put us into this mess.  Add to that, the excessive amounts of political donor money that have created an unlevel playing field that has hurt the small business person in favor of big business. 

But finally now, we have an Administration that’s looking at the big picture. He may not succeed and he may make some bad moves. But he’s what the country wanted after the previous eight years.

Meanwhile, the small-thinking folks – like the creators of this Weapon of Mass Distortion — are in the minority. I describe them as the Stupid-Rich.  They’re hoping to keep things as they are. They don’t want to work harder to re-tool and prepare for a new world economy. Instead, they’d rather go back to the same strategies that got us in this mess.

They kind of remind you of the Detroit Lions last year. Or better yet, this type thinking is not even wide right — it’s been blocked.

 

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