Economic Tweet of the Day

From yesterday and the OC Register:

Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren attracted criticism from some Democrats when he was selected to give the invocation at Barack Obama‘s inauguration. And he’s probably not winning them over with a tweet today that seems to favor the Republican side of the Washington debate over raising taxes on the wealthy.



“HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they’re happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay taxes,” the megachurch leader and best-selling author tweeted.


“The post has since been removed from Warren’s Twitter feed,” writes Politico, who brought the tweet to my attention, “and he acknowledged that the tweet ‘did sound mean’ in a subsequent tweet addressed to a blogger who had written a lengthy response.”

Some lefty got his knickers in a knot over Warren's tweet (which was completely accurate, by the way). Perhaps pastors shouldn't get involved in such stuff, but the fact is it's been a part of the Dem plan for years to have enough voters dependent on government largesse to keep voting them into power indefinitely. The tax brackets are all part of the plan.  Rick's only "sin", so to speak, was speaking the truth.

And let's not forget, selling 20+ million books means he's paid a heckuva lot of taxes.

Rick posted another tweet yesterday that didn't get as much attention, but it caught my eye:

@RickWarren A war on irresponsible nation-toppling debt will need more courageous leadership than a war on terror.Still waiting for it.

Me too.