Remove the Blinders From Thine Eye Before Asking Another to Take Off His Tutu

In this clip from "Real (Stupid Liberal) Time with Bill Maher" Michael Moore (apparently an advocate of the nanny state solely for his own need for the government to control his eating habits) opines that President Obama needs to take off his pink tutu, put on some boxing gloves and start fighting for the American people. I'm not sure what American people he's referring to given the utter lack of support for the policies both Moore and the President have advocated. He must be referring to all us stupid Americans that Bill Maher feels need to be dragged against our will into government control.

Of more interest to me in the clip is the exposition of the modern Statist mind set. Moore says that middle class Americans don't get that millionaires need to pay more in taxes because they've been lied to about the American dream that they too could some day be successful enough to be exposed to those higher taxes. So let me suggest that Mr. Moore remove his blinders and stop concentrating on President Obama's pink tutu. Michael Moore was born to a middle class family in a suburb of Flint, Michigan, and is now a millionaire (estimates I found were $25 million to $50 million). Bill Gates, born into an upper-middle class family, started his company out of a garage and is now one of the richest men on the planet. Multi-billionaire Warren Buffet started his business small and built himself into one of the most successful investment gurus in the world. Arthur Blank worked at a hardware store until he became a supervisor, was fired, then founded Home Depot and is now owner of the Atlanta Falcons. President Barack Obama made questionable millions writing crappy books. All of these people are also well known for their philanthropy (except Obama, perhaps not surprisingly).

It doesn't take much to find success stories in the United States or examples of the generosity of the men and women who have become successful by legitimate hard work. Perhaps he shouldn't focus on the mote in the eye of others and see the beam in his own. I would probably do well to take that advise also, but this would be a far more boring blog if I only talked about my own foibles.