Below is a forward sent by a friend that I wanted to share. And though I agree with everything it says, I think a majority of republicans are also to blame for what's happened to our country. Not just Obama and the democrats. How? They went along, to get along in congress even though they have the majority to do different. Seems these days that it's all about remaining in power, at any cost, regardless of party affiliation.
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 are 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 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 short
sighted 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.
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and
ninety percent how you respond to it.”
Lou Holtz
Leo “Lou” Holtz (born January 6, 1937) is a
retired American football coach, and active sportscaster, author,
and
motivational speaker.
IN GOD WE TRUST
