This baby’s been making the rounds on facebook, as I’ve seen it now from about a half dozen of my left leaning friends there. I would suggest that you force yourself to watch the whole thing, as this is just the warm up for the strategy our President and his community organizing pals plan to put into place to distract American Voters from the fact that they’ve just recently succeeded in destroying what used to be the best health care system in the world, and left us with a disaster in its wake. That’s right my fellow gentle snow flakes, our old buddy economic justice has been taken out of moth balls, because our collective attention span does not possess an adult memory. A solid year of populist crap is what we’ll be dining on from our ruling political party, and wealth redistribution is pretty much the promise for our Utopian Promised Land.
If you can’t make it all the way through, I wouldn’t blame you. Just know that we’re going to get a solid year of this shinola.
Economic realities not withstanding, those of you with more acute powers of observation would have already recognized this argument in it’s most simplistic form, the, “Robber Baron Myth.” This accounting of events tells the story of a rapacious class of wealthy who became the top wage earners in our nation by, “climbing upon the backs of the little guys,” who of course were all born behind some mythological eight ball, and are completely incapable of overcoming the artificial obstacles those nefarious rich have been placing in their way since time began.
There are just a few points that I’d like to address before moving on, just some pop flies to shag for the practice I’ll need to help combat this lunacy during the run up to the 2014 Midterms. First the cheap shot, dig that spooky music playing in the background. Why are our liberal friends so incapable of making any kind of a point without the cheap and sleazy appeal to the darker emotions? Now, on to the rest of it.
An open letter to the idiots peddling the above video:
Dear community organizing punks who’ve taken to social media in order to peddle your crap,
There are a few things that I’d like to say to you in regards to your wealth redistribution wet dreams. First, all of man kind was born in poverty, with nothing. We did not just appear on this continent with $54 Trillion lying around, some of which was grabbed by the poor, and most of which was procured by the wealthy, who managed to grab a larger share by, “crawling on the backs of those less fortunate.” Any wealth that exists anywhere in the world was in some fashion or another created by someone. The entire reason why America has the unprecedented level of wealth, $54 Trillion worth, according to your video, is precisely because we’ve instituted a political and economic system that allows those who create that wealth to keep the lion’s share of it. The people in the Sudan are not missing cable television because we here in America have stolen it from them. They are missing cable television because when your political system dictates that you slaughter a sizable portion of your own people, chances are pretty good that one of those slaughtered was the person who would have brought cable television to your society. Remove those incentives to create at your own peril, but just realize that the Soviet Union, Cuba, and Venezuela serve as telling laboratories as to what redistributed wealth does for a society. The next way to make this point, and this really is not so diplomatic as the previous method, is this. Who’s business is it anyhow? If somebody else has their own jet airplane, so what? Promoting jealousy for your own political ambition is one of those things in life that is just plain evil. Punishing others, while it may lend itself to a feeling of catharsis for the weak minded, truly will do nothing to help in either the short or long term. I will have no increase in the groceries on my own table simply because some community organizing punk stole into the homes of successful people and confiscated half their groceries.
If there is one positive thing about this six minute unbridled plea for Socialism, it is that the narrator admits that Socialism does not work. I guess they have a new name for it now. Let’s talk for a moment about economic justice or fairness. How did we get to a place in our world where it is suddenly fair or just to rob somebody, and distribute the fruits of that robbery? Just because we have banded ourselves into a society and figured out how to use the government and the laws passed by that government to perform our acts of thievery on our behalf does not change the nature of these acts. Those piles of money referred to in the video represent something more than just wealth accumulated, they represent the extent to which a person or a group of people were able to create benefit for their fellow human beings. There is not one single transaction in America’s private sector that is not voluntary for all parties concerned. When you go to Walmart and purchase that garden hose for $8, you have made the decision that you’d rather have the hose than the $8, and Walmart would rather have the $8 than the hose. All parties concerned feel that they have what they want and that they have gotten the better of the transaction. People capable of buying their own jet airplanes are people who have made a lot of people feel that they’ve received value for their transactions. Yes the executives of Shell Oil and Exxon Mobile have done well for themselves over the years, but my guess is that you drove to work today in a vehicle powered by gasoline, and not in a covered wagon or by walking there. Those motor vehicles by the way have probably served to expand your area for procuring employment, enabling you to search for an optimal paying job, and not merely relying on what you could find within walking distance of your home.
One more point before moving on, nothing is mentioned in this video about the mobility between the economic classes that exists in our nation precisely due to our free market system, and does not exist by the way in any society that uses Socialism as its template. Those people in the bottom 20% this year may not be in that strata next year, and the same holds true for those in the top. People who are just starting out are seldom as well to do as those who have been in the game for a while. The only effect that the minimum wage laws will have will be to prevent those at the bottom rungs of the ladder from getting started. The policies advocated by this crowd are the very things responsible for creating the very things that they’re whining about. Ironic, and yet still unfair.
Warmest regards, John
On Friday we got another one of those ridiculous reports from the Department of Labor that told us how great our economy is humming along. The top line unemployment number, according the Department of Labor is now at 6.7% Never mind the changes in accounting definitions put into place by the Obama Labor Department that have now made any reports that they publish nothing more than a cruel joke. Never mind that several of their employees, paid for by the way with our tax dollars, have admitted to a systematic falsifying of the figures used to generate these works of fiction. When you dig into these reports, things look even worse than anyone would have ever suspected.
Fortunately, the folks at Investor’s Business Daily have taken the trouble to do that digging. Here is some of what they found.
6.3 million: Net new jobs created since Obama’s recovery started in June 2009
13.8 million: New jobs that would have been created had Obama’s kept pace with the average of the previous 10 recoveries.
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3.6%: Growth in private jobs since Obama took office.
43%: Growth in the number of temp jobs.
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91.8 million: Number of people not in the labor force as of December.
525,000: Increase since November.
11.2 million: Increase since Obama took office.
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6.7%: Jobless rate 54 months into Obama’s recovery.
5.1%: Unemployment rate 54 months into George W. Bush’s “jobless” recovery.
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13.1%: Jobless rate in Dec. using a broader measure — U6 — which includes people marginally attached to labor force or working part time for economic reasons.
9.2%: Average U6 rate in Bush’s eight years in office.
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26%: Share of adults who say at least one household member is unemployed, based on IBD/TIPP Poll data.
10%: Share who say a household member had work hours cut because of ObamaCare.
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3.9 million: Number of people who’ve been jobless 27 weeks or more in December.
2.7 million: That number when Obama took office.
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37 weeks: Average length of unemployment in Dec.
20 weeks: Average length when Obama took office.
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861,000: Number of discouraged workers in Dec.
734,000: Number when Obama took office.
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58.6%: Current employment-to-population ratio.
61%: Ratio when Obama took office.
62%: Average employment-to-population ratio in the 30 years before Obama took office.
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$1,006: Drop in median household income during the 2007-09 recession.
$2,535: Drop in median income after the recession ended in June 2009, according to Sentier Research.
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As I stated before, this is all an attempt at deflection. The marching orders from the ruling political class is that we should blame the disaster of Barack Obama’s economic policies on the lack of populist appeal. Wealth redistribution, feel good minimum wage increases, and flat out jealousy are the mantras we’ll be hearing for the next 10 months. I guess the hope is that if your lust to punish those who you are jealous of, will make you forget that it was this populist baloney that has destroyed our economy in the first place. Remember, Barack Obama and not George W. Bush has been President for the last five years.
I know that I’ve shown it before, but once again the robber baron crap has been pointed to as America’s main problem. So, here is Dr. Milton Friedman with his brilliance to lay waste to that particular fallacy.
Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tags: Social Justice, The Obama Boom
