By Lou Holtz
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 (Hillary Clinton) pledged the rest of his term to fighting "income
inequality." He (she) 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 (Clinton) 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 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 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 (Clinton) 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 (and Hillary Clinton) gets his (her) 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 (Clinton) is offering is not a solution, but separatism. He
(She) is fomenting division and strife, pitting one set of Americans against another for
his (her)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.
Leo "Lou" Holtz (born January 6, 1937) is a retired
American football coach, and active sportscaster, author, and motivational
speaker.
1 comment:
This coming presidential election in my opinion is our last chance to save the country our forefathers fought and died for to give their descendants (us) the freedom and moral obligation to preserve this great nation that was founded with Gods helping hand and if the independents, republicans and conservative democrats do not get behind Trump this nation is done and Trump knows this.
Lou's comments are spot on except he is speaking too politically correct and what the majority of republican Trump supporters like the most about him is that he not afraid to say what he thinks.
Unfortunately most Trump supporters also think that our current republican leaders are benefiting tremendously from the current administrations game and actually want Hilary as our next president so the rules of the game don't change which is plausible to believe since they have let Obama have his way for the last 7 plus years with no policy change.
It is now time for change. We must support Trump.
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