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America is at an
interesting crossroads in its history - we now have nearly as
many moochers in our population as we do producers.
In a country founded on the belief in man to rise above his
circumstance and to pull himself out of the gutter, we now have
the belief that man is incapable of doing for himself and that
we should look to compelling others to support him; in the past
we had societies and foundations that would voluntarily assist
our downtrodden, but we now have this repugnant belief that it
is good and proper to punish those who achieve and to label them
as the 1% and to steal their wealth, arbitrarily as it is, to
support those who we classify as the "needy" - a now
fluid description of a class of people who are neither needy nor
motivated, but are conveniently exploited as victims.
This is not to
say that there aren't those who are INCAPABLE of supporting
themselves - through REAL disability or unfortunate
maladies. But we have now a shifting sand definition
of the disabled and the needy that is not crafted to protect
them - this definition is shifted to intentionally grow the
problem in order to perpetuate the problem - and to ensure that
today's needy become tomorrows extended family of needy and to
grow the population so that today's needy becme tomorrow's
lazy. And with 40 plus years of feeding yesterday's
needy, we have quite the bumper crop of their extended family of
the lazy.
And so it is that
in the post Wall Street meltdown that exploded during a time of
Republican rule that we now have a President who is amazingly
underwhelming in uplift of spirit and is a class breaker like a
ship in the ice that breaks ice into a path of movement but
creating two factions where the path to success is the narrow
one of the ship and the factions are pitted against each
other.
And thus we have
this latest State of the Union speech, a tired old laundry list delivered in a shocking rapidity as if it were an assault weapon, was absolutely one of the worst ever by a
President in the venue in which it was given. This
is not a particularly surprising revelation about performance
because we know that this President is not about really
governing - he is far more a campaigner of exploitation than
resolution. And the outcomes he seeks is not
resolution of the problems he speaks of - he is rather an
enabler of those who he uses as props and then seeks to
perpetuate their plights in order to sow seeds of his party's
perpetuation.
None of the policies he invented, rebadged, lied about, or just threw out for the moment will resolve a couple of concrete facts about America.
First, the lazy will remain lazy and will remain poor. You don't become rich by being lazy, but you do become poor by being lazy. You cannot resolve this fact of life by having government do more for the lazy. That will only make them.... lazy.
Second, those who have money will do everything they can to make more of it. It is a given that the rich will, 90% of the time, grow their wealth because they have been raised in the mindset of wealth growth. New monied people who have pulled themselves out of the lower class are especially ambitious to make more money.
Third, the lazy will always put forth as much effort as needed to get a government handout. These folks, now generations deep, are institutionalized in their underwhelming effort to take care of themselves. These folks are easy prey for the left as these folks can be bribed with more handouts; and these fools expect more handouts. To them it takes too much effort to get a photo ID to vote. How is it they'll ever improve in their lot.
Fourth, not all poor are lazy. Those who find themselves down and out in a temporary move will always find a way to uplift themselves without the government. These folks know that hard work is the only way to pull themselves up and need government to step out of the way. To these folks, there is a sense of integrity missing in the lazy - that poverty is a motivating force and hunger the driving one - the lazy will never do more for themselves than government will; those who are down will always pick themselves up off the floor; the lazy will call 911.
Five, it is not a lie to say the gap between the rich and poor is growing. This is reality. The lazy poor will always under perform; the motivated rich will always strive to rise above their own means and over achieve. This is life. This is never a bad thing. The problem is that the lazy poor has never been larger as a percentage of the population; these bottom feeders are incapable of doing for themselves since they are the product of the Great Society and welfare programs. These are the people who are uncontrollable reproducers and who are pop culture driven to worthless materialism where investments in rims that cost more than their car is worth or that they need the greatest cellphone ever while they can't afford groceries. Poor choices are manifold with the lazy and that is not the fault of anyone other than the slave masters of the left and the lazy themselves.
Six, you can drive a lazy person to work, but you can't get them to work. You can lock the door on the ambitious and they'll crawl out the window to walk miles to work. The disparity in the wealth gap is predicated on this fact.
Seven, the state of the poor is not due to the wealthy crawling into the windows of the poor homes and stealing their wealth. The poor think they can't save; the problem is they are unwilling to do what it takes to spend less than they make. Frugality and living under one's means is not a difficult action; I've been there - unemployed. And I resolved my situation by immediately reducing my expenses to only that which kept a roof over my head and that which allowed me to eat. Everything else went. And two years later I actually save money on an income of 50% less than I was making. And I don't miss a thing. And interestingly, I am not jealous of those who want to spend more - I just laugh at their foolishness.
The President is an enabler of the lazy. I suppose that this is not a surprise since he himself has noted he is one of them.
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