Spreading Misery

With the realization that what I write is getting to be repetitious, there are some things that need repeating. Everything that Liberalism touches systematically disembowels the apparatus for progress, wealth creation, and freedom. Liberals, usually successful Liberals, (thanks to a free market) have this tremendous heartfelt feeling of compassion for those who choose a less rewarding lifestyle. But their compassion is only evident when they can use other people’s wealth to reward non-achievement.

First, I want to point out that nobody should starve to death, no matter how lazy or unmotivated a person may be. But the idea that you can motivate these people by contributing to their low level of motivation is ludicrous.

Liberalism seeks to reward people for their lack of effort to achieve. It is really a sick notion that instead of rewarding effort, that we reward people for doing nothing. It is certain that if you keep paying for nothing, you will just get more of it. Destroying the wealth and ambition of the motivated segment of the population only serves to impoverish everybody.

This is self evident when a look at any Liberal controlled entity whether it is a State, county, or local government. There is not one Liberal controlled government that is not impoverished and in debt.

Conservative government systems are not lucky – such as Texas. It is the motivation of its people that make it a success. Motivation comes from wanting to do better and being rewarded for achievement. Motivation is inspiration received from the rewards of effort. Motivation comes from being taught about the rewards for effort, and receiving the rewards for effort. When people are continually rewarded for achieving nothing, they will continue to achieve nothing – welfare is their reward for not achieving.

Think about training a pet. Pets are trained using a reward system. When the pet does what we want them to do, they are rewarded with a hug, an at-a-boy, or a food treat. The animal soon learns what is expected of him and will behave in the manner that achieves his reward. People follow the same path. When people feel like they have achieved something, they get a feeling of pride and accomplishment. That feel-good-about-yourself feeling is never felt by the recipients of undeserved rewards. They may be grateful for the handout, but generally speaking, there is resentment because these recipients realize that they are somehow inferior. And if taken to the next logical step, when people continually depend on others for their sustenance, they are in fact, failures. They remain on the fringes, depending on the good will of others.

When you raise your children and do everything for them, they will get spoiled rotten. It takes a long time for a spoiled kid to overcome having the ‘benefit’ of not having to achieve for him/her self. Spoiled kids run the risk of never developing that pride that only achievement can bring.

In closing, I would tell President Obama to quit disenfranchising the achievers. The result can only be the impoverishment of all of us. Every society needs a top of the heap. Elevating ourselves to a comfortable level and away from the squalid bottom of the heap should not be easy, but at least possible for the ones who work at it. The top and slopes of the heap stand there as a challenge to those with the ambition to elevate themselves.

It is the Liberals who would take away our opportunities and keep us all down in the squalid bottom. Killing the rewards for a person’s effort only serves to lessen that effort. Less effort from those who would achieve translates into fewer jobs and a lower standard of living for all. Centralizing and trying to equalize what is not equal is a failed ideology. We have a whole generation of failure to atone for and the Pied Piper Obama is corrupting another. His message is sweet, but the morsel is poison.

Cheers,

-Robert-

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