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 shortsighted decisions.
Barack
Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely
ignoring equality 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.