Redistribution

 

First, a parable:

Once upon a time, there was a father who gave his son an allowance of $1.00 a week. The father told his son that he would have to “live within his means”. Over time the son ran up debts that averaged $2.00 per week. So the son went to the father and said, “Dad, if you increase my allowance to $2.00 per week, I promise I will live within my means.” So the father increased his allowance to $2.00 per week. After a while, the son ran up debts to an average of $4.00 per week. So the son went to his father and said, “Dad, if you will only increase my allowance to $4.00 per week, I promise that I will live within my means.” So the father increased the allowance to $4.00 per week. Sure enough, the son ran up debts that amounted to $8.00 per week. So the son said to his dad, “Dad, if you can just give me an increase to $8.00 per week, I promise that this time, I will cut my spending and live within my means.” Predictably, this cycle continued…$8.00, $16.00, $32.00, $64.00, $128.00, etc., etc. etc.  Then one day, the son came home and saw a “FOR SALE” sign in front of the family home. When he asked his dad why the house was for sale, the father told him that he could no longer afford to pay the mortgage on the house, because there wasn’t enough money left after giving his son an allowance and the debts that the son had continued to run up would have to be paid. The son said to his dad, “All this time, I thought you had enough money, and now you have to sell the house? …Well gee, Dad, can I still get my allowance after you sell the house?”

This story, which I wrote in 2012, is an illustration of largesse on the part of our government and its propensity to throw billions of dollars to fix a problem that, in the end, is not going to be fixed by throwing more and more money at it. Since the inception of redistribution in the United States, going back to LBJ’s Great Society programs and even FDR’s New Deal, there has been an effort to redistribute private wealth for the “public good”, in other words taking from the “haves” and giving to the “have-nots”. What was once a noble effort on the part of our society to provide for those who are truly in need, has grown to the point of multi-generational dependency, growing ever larger to the extent that we have arrived at a place where upwards of fifty millions of our citizens are receiving EBT benefits, while forty-five percent of our population is receiving some form of assistance from our government- all in the name of compassion, yet altogether unsustainable, in any way imaginable, as these numbers continue to grow.

To even mention these facts to anyone brings on the predictable accusations of insensitivity and selfishness as though the national wealth is something that should be shared equally, without any regard to the source of this wealth. There are those, largely Obama supporters and their liberal allies, who advocate such wholesale redistribution, and it is no wonder.

As far back as 2001, Barack Obama was advocating legislative action to make mandatory, the wholesale redistribution of wealth, in a radio discussion (“Odyssey” Chicago Public Radio, 18 Jan 2001) he was having with two law professors while he was an Illinois state senator- citing specifically the failure of the civil rights movement to include legislative requirements that would mandate wholesale redistribution of private wealth to the less fortunate. Ladies and gentlemen- this is nothing less than radical socialism, and this point-of-view has now found discretionary power in our nation’s highest office.

There is an inherent, tangible problem with this philosophy. If we took 100% of all of the assets of the wealthy in this country, and distributed all of this wealth to the poor in this country, the net result would be a poverty level of 100% which, to some, seems “fair”, but to anyone who can look past the end of their nose is the recipe for national failure, and the basis of our own destruction. It was Margaret Thatcher who epitomized this reality when she said, “The problem with socialism is that, eventually, you run out of other people’s money.”

Add this to the problem of illegal immigrants flooding an all-too-porous border, who have been assured by this administration that they and their children will be cared for, and now we see an intent on the part of this administration to completely and intentionally wreck our economy, and subsequently introduce the concept of the “collective” into the American system as a replacement for free enterprise- and this, ladies and gentlemen, is called…Communism.

Going back to his formative years, most all of Obama’s mentors were card-carrying communists and they did a splendid job of indoctrinating their protégé on the doctrine of communism, sealing the philosophy that he has endeared ever since. His promise to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” on Election Night, 2008 is now well under way, as evidenced by the dramatic rise in public assistance that has taken place since he was inaugurated in January, 2009.

Those who have opposed him politically have faced substantial and punitive repercussions, most notably on the part of the IRS, but this fundamental transformation has not stopped there. We now live in a country where, thanks to his administration and their priorities, our government provides better health care to Guantanamo detainees, than they do our own service veterans. The poor, the imprisoned, and indigent illegals who enter this country, also are provided better health care, than those who served our country, fought our wars, and sacrificed themselves so that we may enjoy freedom.

To even mention these things is to bring on charges of racism, insensitivity, callousness and the predictable labels of “Right Wing Nut Job” all because, in their efforts to indoctrinate the minions who support them, the political left has committed wholesale larceny of the language, itself, aided and abetted by a complicit media who failed in their duties to expose the hidden agenda of Barack Hussein Obama, and now we are all having to suffer the consequences of their failure to do so.

At the end of this week, we observe Independence Day, which is supposed to be an observance of the very thing that always made this country the greatest on earth- namely, Independence. Yet, in increasing dependency on the part of millions, we are unwittingly undoing this spirit of independence, and unknowingly playing into the designs of those who would tear us asunder. If we as a nation fail to awake and see what is taking place before our very eyes, America will cease to exist, and on that day all of us will come to suffer and rue the day that Obama and his acolytes came into power.

 

-Drew Nickell, 1 July 2014

 

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