Lou Holtz Nails It !! The Democrats are right, there are two Americas. (enemies, Barack Obama)
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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 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.
A doctor, for example, makes far more than the man who got a job in a restaurant. There is significant income inequality between them. While the doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency, He made a choice, the other man made a choice, and the choices led them to different outcomes. The doctors outcome pays a lot better. Does that mean he cheated and Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth? No, it means they 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.
quote--He made a choice, the other man made a choice, and the choices led them to different outcomes. The doctors outcome pays a lot better
this is where you lose me -- sorry-not everyone has those choices you think are magically just there and 2 this problem has been around LONGGGG time before this present Potus-- so please -- and some Americans have hated other Americans for decades if they didn't not meet their standards-- even when you put them side by side in battle - once they go home ha!
quote--He made a choice, the other man made a choice, and the choices led them to different outcomes. The doctors outcome pays a lot better
this is where you lose me -- sorry-not everyone has those choices you think are majically just there
Maybe so .... but everyone has an option, and a moral mandate, to refrain from the combination of thuggery, indolence and influence peddling/seeking which characterize the "progressive" coalition.
And this standard can easily be enforced, and a higher level of basic security and dignity offered to those who truly don't enjoy the options, if control is restricted to the local level -- where the thugs can be weeded out and the bureaucratic dreamers and empire-builders enjoined from interfering (funded on somebody else's dollars, of course).
That is the point which the power-mad "progressives" (a/k/a "Barry-O and the WonderPets") repeatedly refuse to address -- because they are afraid of the truth.
Last edited by 2nd trick op; 11-01-2015 at 09:30 AM..
no its call education!!! which everybody has been in the bandwagon to keep cutting their budgets!!, and this core crap to teach Only to pass a test-- P on that ---If you really teach kids to learn-- they will grab from with-in and GO to find their God given purpose and expand on their talents --
when you PUT money into real education you will see our future change
when you PUT money into real education you will see our future change
And the first step in that process is to privatize all education -- leaving the NEA and its Politically Correct sycophants without a power-structure. The private sector would eagerly participate, if the crazy-quilt of "progressive" policies no longer had access to our classrooms to use them as a bully pulpit.
And please don't try to convince us that people of ordinary means would not support this; they have eagerly embraced voucher systems when they were made available.
Last edited by 2nd trick op; 11-01-2015 at 09:51 AM..
quote--He made a choice, the other man made a choice, and the choices led them to different outcomes. The doctors outcome pays a lot better
this is where you lose me -- sorry-not everyone has those choices you think are magically just there and 2 this problem has been around LONGGGG time before this present Potus-- so please -- and some Americans have hated other Americans for decades if they didn't not meet their standards-- even when you put them side by side in battle - once they go home ha!
Why?
People come out of dire poverty to become whatever they want if they have the initiative to do so. Ben Carson raised by a single mom rose to become a great doctor. Jim Carey lived in a van for years, as did Suze Orman, and has become one of the highest paid actors in the world!
I don't know if given to "each state" if they would do better or worse, and private is always ABOUT making money not always to produce the best-- in expensive schools there is better education- but the number of student is very small
no its call education!!! which everybody has been in the bandwagon to keep cutting their budgets!!, and this core crap to teach Only to pass a test-- P on that ---If you really teach kids to learn-- they will grab from with-in and GO to find their God given purpose and expand on their talents --
when you PUT money into real education you will see our future change
The most educated person I know is bankrupt. I know many college grads out of work. Education doesn't only come from school. The most relevant information anyone learns comes from their parents. Ben Carson was poor but learned well from his family. Discipline and hard work was his greatest allies. He refused to make excuses, and made himself successful.
quote--He made a choice, the other man made a choice, and the choices led them to different outcomes. The doctors outcome pays a lot better
this is where you lose me -- sorry-not everyone has those choices you think are magically just there and 2 this problem has been around LONGGGG time before this present Potus-- so please -- and some Americans have hated other Americans for decades if they didn't not meet their standards-- even when you put them side by side in battle - once they go home ha!
Not all can get there as easily and it's not as difficult for others but in no wise does it negate that each has choices to make.
*Lou Holtz then proceeded to wipe the spit off his microphone and pick up his dentures
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