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Fwd: WOW: This sums it up perfectly - TWO AMERICAs
Date: 03/25/14 09:03:20 A
A must read!
On Monday, March 24, 2014 11:02
PM, C L wrote:
WOW:
This sums it up perfectly - TWO AMERICAs
This is
very good!
Another excellent example of articulating the condition that
besets our country. I think it's fair to say that we've isolated the problem
with America today, and, we have clearly defined the solution that will fix it.
The larger question is, are we capable of achieving this objective?
The mid-term elections are pivotal in winning back our country. If we fail in
our efforts at the mid-terms, the 2016 election will, most certainly, break the
back of the Republic and set us on the course for revolution. There will be no
peaceful resolve from that point forward. Revolution will be inevitable. It
will only be a matter of when it will happen.
One of the clearest explanations ever about the current state of America.
In early January 2014, Bob Lonsberry, a Rochester talk radio personality on
WHAM 1180 AM, said this in response to Obama's "income inequality
speech":
Two Americas
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 is 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 choices we make and 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 inequality 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 shortsighted 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.