Its hip to hate the rich
When did it become cool to hate the rich? Last night watching the daily show I was kind of surprised at the shows attitude toward business executives. I know the show has a liberal slant, but it is often good comic relief to the days insane political climate.
I was a bit taken back though when John started mocking the insurance company executives salaries, and the fact that the insurance industry is making a profit. Don’t get me wrong I think when costs go up 50% and profits go up nearly as much there is a problem with the industry. Especially when every citizen in the country needs the services offered by the industry. However how would one expect the industry to survive if it did not make a profit? It is the point of running a company to give all of its employees and shareholders a better quality of life. That is not going to happen without profit!
This is a good example of the shift in American politics toward socialism. The health care legislation is not an attempt to fix health care, it is an attempt to take the entire health care industry out the the hands of the “dirty rich people”.
Why is this sentiment gaining any ground? Because this is the sentiment that elected a person like Obama. If we drill down into the numbers for who elected our new president we can see two groups emerge. The first group is those with post graduate degrees, and the second group has no college education. Who is missing? The middle class is missing, as they voted for McCain.
When you take a look at his campaign and who voted for him, you can clearly see it is those with little to no education, who make very little money, and those we fall into the victim mentality. The majority of those who feel they are victims of ethnic or economic hardships are the rank and file of the Obama support base. No wonder the president wants to punish all the rich people, he is in power because he raised support from those who feel “disenfranchised”.
Those who are a part of the disenfranchised victim mentality have some common traits. A few of them being a low civic IQ, a lack of understanding of how a republic functions, and a predisposition to class warfare. Frankly these are people that have bought into a victim mentality, and not people we should encourage to vote. This group of our populace is not freedom loving, but rather a group who sees they have not, and want to punish those who have. Any constitution loving American should see these people are grown up children who get angry when someone else has what they believe is more opportunity, but they have no drive to work hard enough to get it themselfs. They are not the hard working core of this nation that makes us who we are. How did we all let this happen?
The group we should be even more weary about is the elitist socialists that helped make this all possible. Progressives, fighting for “social justice” who do not love liberty or freedom, who would rather see that everyone be held back than anyone be successful.
When did communists become welcome citizens of our republic? I support the freedom of people to believe what they want, but when they try to take away our liberty and everything that makes this country great we should not stand for it.
Where is middle America? Where are the hard working people who strive to provide a better life for their children? With the promise of liberty we set aside the foolish notions of “fairness” and the bondage of “everyone deserves the same”.
Another good example of this is the outcry by the media about congressional health care. Why should every American be given the same health plan as a congressman? I have health insurance through a company policy, should then every American be given the same policy? Should the plans provider be forced to give the same plan to the person that works only a few hours a week as those who work full time and qualify under the company policy? This is insain! NO ONE HAS A RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE OF ANY SORT. The world is not fair, and never has been, nor ever shall be.
Our country has given every citizen the opportunity to be the next Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. It is up to the citizen to take that opportunity and make something of it. Those who have made nothing of their opportunity, those who are squandering their life should not be allowed to punish the rest of us and say “the opportunity didn’t do anything for me.”
This shift is the direct result of a nation that allows cities like Chicago to take away personal freedoms from its citizens and give the power to the criminals. This is the result of a country that allows a welfare state to exist. People have been taking from the public treasury since the days of FDR, and its time to put a stop to it. If we do nothing the opportunity that our forefathers died and killed for, will evaporate into a mist of socialist programs and corrupt government promises.
