By Bob Lonsberry December, 2013
The Democrats are right, there are two Americas.
The America that works, and the America that
doesn’t. The America that contribute, 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 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 victimhood 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 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 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 arise 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.
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