The
Democrats are right, there are two Americas. The America that works, and the
America that doesn’t. The America that contributes, and the America that
doesn’t. It’s not the haves and the have not's, it’s the dos and the don'ts.
Some people do their duty as Americans, obey the law, support themselves,
contribute to society, and others don't.
That’s the divide in America.
It’s not about income inequality, it’s about civic irresponsibility.
It’s about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in
order to win elective office. It’s
about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country. That’s not invective, that’s truth, and it’s
about time someone said it.
The
politics of envy was on proud display a couple weeks ago when President Obama
pledged the rest of his term to fighting “income inequality.” He noted that some people make more than
other people, that some people have higher incomes than others, and he say
that’s not just. That is the rationale
of thievery. The other guy has it, you want it, Obama will take it for you.
Vote Democrat. That is the philosophy that produced Detroit. It is the electoral philosophy that is
destroying America. It conceals a
fundamental deviation from American values and common sense because it ends up
not benefiting the people who support it, but a betrayal. The Democrats have not empowered their
followers, they have enslaved them in a culture of dependence and entitlement,
of victim-hood and anger instead of ability and hope. The president’ premise
–that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful –seeks to deny
the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the
consequences of their choices. Because,
by and large, income variations in society is a result of different choices
leading to different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibility
have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and
irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure. Success and failure usually manifest
themselves in personal and family income.
You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college – and you are
apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on
with purposeful education. You have your children out of wedlock and life is
apt to take one course; you have them within a marriage and life is apt to take
another course. Most often in life our destination is determined by the course
we take.
My
doctor, for example, makes far more than I do. There is significant income
inequality between us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome, but, our
lives also have had an in equality of effort.
While my doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to
medical school and residency, I got a job in a restaurant. He made a choice, I made a choice, and our
choices led us to different outcomes.
His outcome pays a lot better than mine. Does that mean he cheated and
Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth?
No, it means we are both free men in a free society where free choices
lead to different outcomes. It is not
inequality Barack Obama intends to take away, it is freedom. The freedom to
succeed, and the freedom to fail. There is no true option for success if there
is no true option for failure. The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less
when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more
happiness than the other guy. Even if
the other guy sat on his arse and did nothing.
Even if the other guy made a lifetime’s worth of asinine and short
sighted decisions.
Barack
Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely
ignoring inequality of effort. The simple Law of the Harvest – as ye sow, so
shall ye reap – is sometimes applied as, “The harder you work, the more you
get." Obama would turn that upside
down. Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who
fail are to be rewarded as wards of society. Entitlement will replace effort as
the key to upward mobility in American society if Barack Obama gets his way. He
seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the
successful and productive to foster equality through mediocrity. He and his
party speak of two Americas, and their grip on power is based on using the
votes of one to sap the productivity of the other. America is not divided by the differences in
our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts.
It is a
false philosophy to say one man’s success comes about unavoidably as the result
of another man’s victimization. What Obama offered was not a solution, but a
separatism. He fomented division and strife, pitted one set of Americans
against another for his own political benefit.
That’s what socialists offer.
Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow. Two Americas, coming closer
each day to proving the truth to Lincoln’s maxim that a house divided against
itself cannot stand. "Life is ten
percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
Lou
Holtz
No comments:
Post a Comment
Welcome to comments. Here you can agree, disagree or present a good arguement. Just keep it clean and do not attack others.
But do not expect me to be nice when you are stupid. If I am stupid tell me and I'll check it out and correct it.