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
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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 do nots.
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
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
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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