Half Of America Twists Right Into Wrong And Wrong Into Right

Common Sense Commentary: Our Great American eagle, has two wings, but struggles to fly with its right wing while dragging its useless left one.  RB


"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isa.5:20

Two Americas 

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 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 responsibly 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 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.  With Education too.  It is called “Common Core.”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.”

Sent to me by a friend. RB