David M. Adam, Jr.

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Subject: THERE ARE 2 AMERICAS!!  BRIEF & WELL WORDED

In early January 2014, Bob Lonsberry, a Rochester talk radio personality on     WHAM 1180 AM, said     this in response to Obama's "income inequality speech":

Two Americas

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 happinessompletely 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 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 whatthat a house divided against itself cannot stand.