NOT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL AND THAT IS JUST THE WAY IT IS

 

The founders put forth the notion that all men are created equal in the sense that they are all endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness etc. Men and women have utilized their personal talents and determination to better their existence in spite of the best efforts of the ruling classes throughout all of our history. Marx and Engels go to great length to describe the struggles of the proletariat against the oppression of the Bourgeoisie in the Communist Manifesto as they sought to design a system of self government which would assure nearly equal outcomes for all citizens. The driving themes of today’s progressive movement are based on equal outcomes. The progressive tax code was originally designed to penalize higher income earners more than low income earners in an attempt to level out wealth accumulation. We hear slogans decrying income inequality and promoting redistribution of wealth but if any well historically read Capitalist draws a parallel to Marx’s philosophy we are shouted down and branded as greedy or racist.

I just re-read the online progressive manifesto from the ThinkProgress website. The site proclaims that people have the right to an economically secure life, freedom of speech and religion, freedom from undue interference from government while bearing the responsibility for putting the public interest above our own. The piece concludes with the statement; “We want growing businesses producing the world’s best products and services. We want an economy that works for everyone, not just the few. We want all nations to uphold the universal human rights and work together to solve common challenges. This is what a progressive America looks like.”

The framers knew better than to trust this nation to the better nature of those in government. The Constitution was designed to prohibit government from unduly interfering in our lives. They went so far as to say that it is prohibited from having influence on our personal lives except for the enumerated powers. No system of government has provided upward mobility and guaranteed you your rights to your own work product as well as ours. For progressives to proclaim that they want growing businesses producing the world’s best products and services even as the progressives in our government shamelessly tax and regulate American business into insolvency is impossible to reconcile. The number one tactic in the progressives fight against income inequality is to take the fruits of productive labor away from the producers and give it to those who do not. If you fancy yourself a progressive I ask you if the current tax code with its 16826 pages of special interest tax exemptions works for you. Is the lowest labor participation rate since the depression and 1.9% growth in GDP what you mean when you say you want an economy that works for everyone and not just the few? Are you really willing to overlook the lawlessness of this administration just because the President is half black? He and his administration trample the freedom of speech you claim to covet and intimidate all those whose opinions differ from theirs with the full power of the IRS, EPA, BLM, NSA and FBI. You need to face reality just as the founders did, you cannot trust the future of the nation to the better nature of elected officials, they may not have a better nature. The Constitution has checks and balances built in with limited power for the federal government so that the imperial nature of our elected officials cannot be used against us. Look around all of you idealistic self proclaimed progressive’s, this is what the real progressive America looks like. We are a nation in decline because of the progressive agenda of Clinton, Bush and Obama where there are few jobs and little hope of a better future!