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 nots, 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 says 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’s 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 are a result of different choices leading to different consequences.
Those who choose wisely and responsibly 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
Leo “Lou” Holtz (born January 6, 1937) is a retired American football coach, and active sportscaster, author, and motivational speaker.
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I would also like to point out the times in history when we had large percentages of high school grads go off to college. When we get an influx like that what happens is we end up with a large percentage of college grads who can't find a job. I also think our blue collar workers are very important for the economy and of course without servers no one would be served. We are much busier today than in the past and don't have time to change the oil, rotate the tires, cook dinner, dry clean clothes, landscape our yards, grow and raise our own food..etc.. you get the point and there is just not enough teens in the world. LOL
My philosophy, if you cannot afford to pay your employees a living wage then you simply cannot afford to own your own business. Not a big deal though because you are likely educated if can open your own business so there is good news for you, conservatives say there are plenty of jobs for you out there. Apparently every adult should be college educated and this will somehow not lead to competition over your job, professionals working as waitresses or starting back where you started working a low end job not making enough to pay the bills.
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-- Edited by rose on Tuesday 1st of March 2016 07:48:27 AM
I would also like to point out the times in history when we had large percentages of high school grads go off to college. When we get an influx like that what happens is we end up with a large percentage of college grads who can't find a job. I also think our blue collar workers are very important for the economy and of course without servers no one would be served. We are much busier today than in the past and don't have time to change the oil, rotate the tires, cook dinner, dry clean clothes, landscape our yards, grow and raise our own food..etc.. you get the point and there is just not enough teens in the world. LOL
My philosophy, if you cannot afford to pay your employees a living wage then you simply cannot afford to own your own business. Not a big deal though because you are likely educated if can open your own business so there is good news for you, conservatives say there are plenty of jobs for you out there. Apparently every adult should be college educated and this will somehow not lead to competition over your job, professionals working as waitresses or starting back where you started working a low end job not making enough to pay the bills.
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-- Edited by rose on Tuesday 1st of March 2016 07:48:27 AM
That is a myth. There is NOT a "large percentage" of college grads who cannot find a job. Most can--but they need SKILLS. If you major in something that no one wants or needs, then yeah, your demographic has high unemployment, but most college grads find jobs.
Blue collar jobs, too, can pay very well--IF they are SKILLED positions. Welders, plumbers, electricians, construction workers, even truck drivers can all make 50k or more--some a LOT more.
FDR wasn't talking about fast food restaurants (or any restaurants), or Wal-Marts, or other low skill jobs. He was talking about our factories with skilled workers--our steel mills, auto plants, etc...
Unfortunately, government over-regulation (both labor and environment) and over-taxation has driven many of these jobs out of the country.
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Well, I could agree with you--but then we'd both be wrong.
No there is not a large percentage of college grads that cannot find jobs NOW.
If you reread my post I said in the past when we had large percentages of hs grads going on to further their carrer then it did turn into times when many college grads could not find a job in their field.
She's right husker. The jobs are evaporating. To Mexico, to China, to Korea, to overseas. Yeah, there are still some skilled jobs here. But, where is our Industry? It is gone. No factories, no great production going on here. That is why Trump is resonating so loudly. He brings the promise of jobs. It's all about people being able to sustain themselves. Without jobs, they can't. And, when people can provide for themselves and their families, all the other things in life will fall into place.
However, the Dems have this sooo backwards and upside down it's truly stunning. They seem to think more govt and raising the minimum wage is some magical foo foo.
No there is not a large percentage of college grads that cannot find jobs NOW. If you reread my post I said in the past when we had large percentages of hs grads going on to further their carrer then it did turn into times when many college grads could not find a job in their field.
Not if their field is in something people actually want to pay someone to work in.
if you majored in journalism--you will likely be sh!t out of luck.
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Well, I could agree with you--but then we'd both be wrong.
