Two Americas

Author Unknown

The Democratic Party leaders talk about two Americas.  They are talking about the rich and the poor which they sometimes call the haves and the have-nots.  They put the connotation on the haves that they achieved their positions by taking advantage of the have-nots.  They demand equality and quote the President with his slogan about share the wealth.  There are wealthy people who have inherited their wealth because of the efforts of their parents and ancestors.  At the same time there are children that are born to poor uneducated parents that teach their children that the way to live is to take money from the government and charitable organizations.  They are taught that they are entitled to these things because they were unfortunate to be born poor.  The Democratic Party tells them that they are poor because of the rich Republicans and the greedy corporations that take advantage of them and makes them work for less money than they are worth.

When I graduated from high school in the 1950s there was not a paved road across the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  The major mode of transportation was walking or riding camels.  Oil was discovered and American companies went in and set up wells and pipelines to get the oil to the coast where it could be shipped to refineries in America.  The King of Saudi Arabia took ownership of most of the wells and began to give money to all of the citizens of the country.  They now have three or four generations of people who have never worked in their lives.  When I arrived in the country forty years later, there were large industrial complexes producing products sold in the Middle East.  There were no Saudi citizens working in these factories.  The labor force was all hired and imported from other countries.  The Saudi population is now getting so large it is getting harder to pay all of the citizens and they are wanting them to go to work in the industries.   They have not been successful.  The Saudis are accustomed to getting up for the day when they wake up after the sun rises without looking at a clock.  They decide what they are going to do for the day after they wake up.  This is the ultimate in the welfare state.  This is what America would become if the policies of the Democrat Party were followed.  In Egypt there are no foreign workers.  To live in Egypt you must work and provide for yourself and your family.  Even a marriage is not supposed to take place until the man has a home for his wife.  Egyptian workers work hard and they are regular and on time.

There are two Americas but it is not the haves and the have-nots.  It is the doers and the don’t doers.  It is about those that want to work and support themselves and those that want things given to them.  It is about those that give to others and those that want to take from others.  Mitt Romney took a lot of flak during his campaign for the presidency when he said that 47% of the voters were taking from the government and would vote for the Democrats because the Democrats were telling them that the greedy Republicans would take away the benefits that they were entitled to receive.  Our Declaration of Independence stated that we believe that all men are created equal.  It does not say that all adults should be equal.  We achieve what we achieve because of our own efforts.  The harder you work the more successful you become.  It is not up to the government to take from the successful people and give to the unsuccessful people in order to create equality.  This is a principle of the Democratic Party.

Our country was founded on principles that allow all of us to make our own decisions.  We become the product of these decisions.  The Republican Party encourages cooperation and working with others to bring success to all of us.  The Democratic Party uses the philosophy that has destroyed the city of Detroit.  That philosophy encourages each individual to look out for himself and if you achieve power through politics then use that vehicle to profit yourself.

An individual who drops out of high school without completing the grades will generally not do as well in life and those who finish.  I attended Georgia Tech and graduated.  This has improved my success in life.  My doctor is more successful than me but my doctor spent about three more years in school than I did.  Doctors are paid a lot more money than I ever made.  I am not in favor of taking anything from doctors and having it given to me.  It was my choice to take the path that I took.  I never considered being a doctor but it was available to me.  We are rewarded based on the decisions that we made.  It is not up to the president to try to make us all equal.  The law of the harvest is, “As you sow, so shall you reap.” 

Equality of income is not a right.  We are the product of our decisions.  The efforts to equalize income is intended to make us dependent on the federal government.  We lose our freedom when we are dependent on the government.