Two Americas
By Bob Lonsberry
WHAM1180.com
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
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.