Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Two Americas



Want to know why citizens who work for a living dislike those who vote for a living? This guy hits the nail on the head! 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, and contribute to society, while 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 to spend 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's the rationale of thievery! The other guy has it, you want it, and Obama will take it for you. Vote Democrat! That's the philosophy that produced Detroit. It's the electoral philosophy that's 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 betraying them. 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. Income variations in society are, for the most part, 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. If you choose to drop out of high school or skip college, you're likely to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education. Have children out of wedlock and your life is apt to take one course; have them within a stable marriage and life is apt to take another course.

Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take and the choices we make. 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 have also 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 one choice, I made another, 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're both free men in a free society where free choices lead to different outcomes.

It's not inequality Barack Obama intends to take away, it's freedom. The freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail.
There is no true option for success if there's 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 ass 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 the 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's divided by the differences in our efforts. It's a false philosophy to say one man's success comes unavoidably as the result of another man's victimization.

What Obama offers is not a solution, but a separatism. He has 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.

Thank You David

29 comments:

  1. Standing guard over liberty is becoming more and more difficult. Let's pray that the new Republican-led Congress can help America recover from the destructive ideology of The World's Most Dangerous Community Organizer.

    Thanks for posting this Sweet Pea.

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    1. You're welcome Sweet Pea!

      The RINOs in congress don't have the stomach for the fight, I'm afraid.

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  2. unfortunately the new congress will be like the old congress. the rinos are democrate lite and the democrates are lefty loons!

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    1. Denis, I've never considered Democrats as "Lefty Loons", but rather just plain socialists and communists.

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  3. I think we will find our way back. I will tell you that I will be so happy when Oblahblah leaves the white house. He's done nothing but divide this country. Worst president in my lifetime.

    Have a fabulous day Odie. ☺

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  4. It's the loss of personal freedom that matters most. And Karl Marx understood this, so does every socialist since then. We can stand pretty much anything else, but that. Obama knows it and is working his little fingers to the bone to rid this country of its one Golden Flaw. Let's hope he fails.
    PS Left a message at Roy's.

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    1. Trailbee, they just keep nibbling away at us a bit a time hoping we don't notice. The Obama voters are the only ones that haven't noticed.

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  5. Spot on analysis. I can't wait for Obola's reign to end. I believe our country will recover, so it's just a question of when.

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    1. Cube, we have to shake some sense into those RINOs first.

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    2. Is it possible to shake some sense into those RINOs? I'd rather vote them out of office.

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    3. Cube, good idea, but we have to wait two years.

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  6. This has been true for about 65 years.

    Consider the lyrics of "Officer Krupke".

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  7. Your always one of my favorite reads, I'm putting you in my blogroll.
    http://www.uncensored21.com/ formally the daily smug.

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    1. 451, so that's who you are. I keep chasing you from site to site. OK, I'll straighten out my blog roll.

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  8. Lately, I feel as if I'm living in the most discouraging of times. An ugly seismic shift has occurred, and I don't recognize this America we're living in today.

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  9. If the Congress would stop throwing away its responsibilities and allowing (any) president the kind of authority that Obama has, we'd be much more like a nation run by the people, rather than the oligarchy that we've become.

    It's time to defund the federal government. That would immediately get rid of half the problem....

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    1. Euripides, let me know when. I'll keep my two cents worth.

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    2. I'd love to see the American people rise up and have a general tax strike. Wouldn't that be something to see....

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  10. When less people are working outside government than are working inside government the tide will have turned,

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    1. Brighid, I'm afraid we're getting very close to that.

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  11. Obama wants income equality where everyone but the elitists are at the same level of poverty. But then who pays to run the government? Who then pays to supply Holder's people with their free stuff?

    As Euripides said, "It is time to defund the federal government."

    Odie, thanks for posting this.

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    1. MadJack, every once in awhile I'm sent something like this and I have to post it. Funny will just have to wait a day.

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  12. Well sadly the two Americas were never more on display than yesterday in NYC. The goverment of Obama/Holder and Sharpton got exactly what they wanted.

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    1. MadJack, we'll stay tuned, because I'm sure there's more to come.

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