Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 11:24:08 AM
Yesterday, Our Fearless Leader took some time out of his 17 day vacation to go to Kansas to try and channel Teddy Roosevelt. His opening statement left people wondering what was going on. He said he was happy to be back in Texas. He was in Kansas. He selected the location. This was not some whistle stop along a campaign trail. This was a planned event that stood by itself. To make that error showed a glaring lack of concern for those in the audience. They forgave him for his error as they were already drinking the Kool-Aid.
During the speech he laid out an agenda that should chill the hearts of every freedom loving person alive. He basically said that everyone should have equality of outcome. Everyone already has equality of opportunity. We get that when we are born. At that point, we can become almost anything. From that point on, the choices we make limit our opportunities to do different things. As a result of our choices, we have a difference in outcome, but we all had an equal shot at attaining those goals.
Barack Obama wants to change that. He feels that even if you make poor choices you should have the same chance to become a brain surgeon as the person who makes all the right choices. Anyone who looks at that statement will realize how stupid it is. A person becomes a brain surgeon because of a series of choices and hard work in between. There is also talent involved, but hard work can overcome a lack of talent in most things. For example, not all major league baseball players are the most talented players. Some work harder and become good because of that hard work. The more talented players sometimes become great and sometimes become great flameouts. To say that everyone has to have the same outcome is ludicrous. Not everyone wants the same outcome.
For example, some people want to earn high salaries and be powerful people. Others put more value in their families and are willing to sacrifice the high salaries and power to achieve a happy family. That is individual choice. They all have the same opportunity at the beginning, but choose to take different paths. That people choose these different paths voluntarily is what makes the country great. But, there are some people who do not want to work to achieve high goals. They want it handed to them on a silver platter. Those are the people that Barack Obama was talking to yesterday. They are envious of other people’s success and would be willing to destroy what is good to get even.
Right now in this country about half of the population is not paying taxes. That is a very dangerous situation. When people do not pay taxes, they do not have a “stake” in the country. For them the country is about how much they can get from the government. For a person who pays taxes, there is no question of how much the government gives. They are more interested in keeping more of what they make. The only way to get sanity back into the voting process is to make everyone who votes a “stakeholder” in the country. This can be by having people sign away their voting right in order to receive government assistance. This way they get the government assistance they want without becoming toxic at the voting booth. Or, they can pay some sort of taxes thereby becoming a stakeholder. Either option would be available to everyone. Those that owe taxes would already opt for the pay taxes option and have the ability to vote. Those that receive government assistance would have the decision to make, give up the vote to receive assistance or pay some kind of tax. That would make voters more responsible.
The odds on that suggestion becoming law is somewhere between slim and none. Democrats already scream discrimination when you ask people to show id in order to vote. You have to show id in order to purchase alcohol or cigarettes, why not the most important thing you do? We all know the reason Democrats do not want people to have to show id in order to vote. They like the opportunity for voter fraud that exists right now. They can bus people from precinct to precinct and have them vote multiple times for multiple people. This gets more Democrat votes in elections. Democrats talk about suppressing minority voting, but the real problem is voter fraud by people not eligible to vote or not registered.