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 not’s, it's the
do’s 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.
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.
An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
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