One Of The Left's "Great Distractions" - Income Inequality

Lately, we've been hearing renewed talk about “income inequality,” one of the Great Distractions put forth by the Left. After King DingleBarry met with Pope Francis the other day, His Royal Lowness (that's Obama to you liberals out there), had a brief press conference in which he proclaimed that income inequality was the main focus of the discussion. The Vatican, however, said otherwise, but that's another subject.

With all this talk about income inequality, I thought it might be a good time to remind people what that phrase – or rather, what their supposed “solutions” to it - really means – socialism. Basically, they plan to take from one to give to another - be it through higher taxes on those who make more or artificially inflating the wages of those who make less. There's really no other way to describe it, and we should, all of us, be wary of it.

You cannot make everyone truly equal by making the rich poorer. It has never worked. The great Benjamin Franklin knew that in the days before there was an actual "welfare class."

“For my own part, I am not so well satisfied of the goodness of this thing. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. — I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? — On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country In the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent.” - Benjamin Franklin - (On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor For the LONDON CHRONICLE, 1766)

Forced "equality" leads to one thing above all others - a class system: The same kind of class system that the Founders and Framers tried so hard to avoid. Does the phrase "all men are created equal" ring any bells?

The fact of the matter is that there can never be "true equality" amongst human beings. There will *always* be someone better at the same job, smarter, faster, more innovative than you, or me, or anyone else. That's simply the way it is and nothing can change that.

One of the things that made these United States the envy of the world in so short a time was both the premise and promise, that the circumstances of your birth mattered very little in what you could accomplish in your life: That you were the master of your own destiny, on the whole.

I know *how* people have forgotten this - social engineering in public schools, where our children are taught that competition is bad, that no one is better than anyone else, which is a patently false notion. I might even be able to narrow down the *when* – say the “Department of Education” and the radical leftists who've been running it for forty-plus years?

What I can't figure out is the *why* - why we have forgotten what America means, or used to mean to the world. This was the nation to which everyone wanted to belong. People yearned to be as free as Americans – free to make their own way, to do what they wanted, live where they wanted – without the destructive influence of a massive, bloated government.

What REALLY bothers me, what really sticks in my craw, is what's going to be required to bring that all back. God help us all when - not if - that day comes. ~ Hunter