MSNBC: In health bill, Obama attacks wealth inequality
As a self described "cultural strategist" I can't help but be disturbed at the logic and thinking that is present behind the policies hoisted by the left. It is clear to me that they prefer creating an artificial living standard among the masses that their own actions cannot support. Worst yet in the interval of time in which the masses are allowed to live at this artificially inflated standard - these same altruists never seem to get around to actually proving the enhanced productivity that the "seed of opportunity" that they have planted has produced.
I keep referring to the architecture of this nation and how the progressive movement has scaled from local toward national as it has slowly implemented its policy set as a good means of understanding the results and the unintended consequences. The left got its toe-hold at the periphery via the Labor Movement. The drive to reform the working conditions and compensation for a day's work is the basis of the modern progressive movement. It is no stretch for me to recognize that at least some of their efforts were needed and were a good thing. They shifted the balance that was askew toward the ownership more toward the center. I am a supporter of "collective bargaining". I merely don't like many of the antics of those who purport to represent the interests of labor.
The key problem with the progressive movement is that they never are forced to turn around and consider the entire slate of consequences that they have rendered upon the "Least of These" and the communities that they reside in. Key areas in the Northeast and Midwest where they are strongest are in dramatic economic decline. They indeed "won" the political struggles in these places. One would be hard pressed to prove that the people "won" along with them.
The View Of Government
I read someone say several months back in the context of the Health Care debate that "the government IS the people". In their line of thinking the corporation was a self-interested entity and that the government represented the "union" of the people against this threat. Will all due respect - this type of ignorance is why we as a nation reside where we are today.
The truth is that the government is an overlay representation of the interests of the people. In this democratic-republic we yield a bit of our personal interests to this entity so that it can manage the key resources in our land with the hopes that our rights will be protected and our resources can be synergized to a greater whole.
I am not fused to the government. A voluntary "ward of the state", agreeing to do so because it makes it easier for more of us as human beings to (seemingly) live at a minimum level of prosperity.
I see my goal as managing the government in all that it does, rebuking it when it steps upon me. Redirecting it toward a more rationale course.
Analysis Of The NY Times Analysis Of The Progressive-Fundamentalist Agenda Lead By Obama
First of all it is important to get one thing out of the way: This AIN'T about Obama.
In this long running football game as modeled by Malcolm X - we have reached a point where we gain mental solace by defining a face for "our team" and then working hard so that "our side" might win. In the process so much of our own selves are compromised as we unify behind the team.
For the Black community specificially the biggest indictment is to note that after decades of "cheerleading" for a team in the "American Political Domain" our communities stand as they are. We now have a circular reference where for our pot of gold to actually be obtained we need to "double down" and help the machine that has now taken over to win even more so that what they promised we'd have if we got this far might be obtained in our future victories.
Instead I see Obama as part of a "machine". A machine is an organized expression of a particular ideology. They work in a coordinated and conspiratorial manner to translate their ideas into actual policy.
If the old saying of "You can judge a society by considering how they treat their poor" is true then this should serve as the biggest indictment against the Progressive-Fundamentalist. For me I value making the "poor" "UN-POOR" by understanding the specific set of processes that one must do to not be poor.
The same progressive who pats himself upon the back for creating the middle class as a result of his fight against the corporate industrialists can't see the present errors in his way. The corporate eco-system created a "pie" of wealth. The labor struggle did not "create the pie". It granted the worker a larger slice of the pie for him to take home.
We only need to look at the present state of our economy and the conditions in certain specific areas to see that despite having ample government - the economic fortunes of the people who need money in their pockets has not been fulfilled. It is their anti-corporate bigotry as they lust for common control over all of the forces within the economy that causes the Progressive bigot to misunderstand the delicate interplay between the "consumers of labor", "the sellers of their labor services" and the government who's job it should be to guide.
Some would have it for the "government" to become the "consumer of labor" - with the assumption that the interests of the masses will be protected because they have a popular vote in the matter.
If only they could see that we are debating issues that are thousands of years old. In biblical terms - nothing about the state of man changes over time. Only his access to technological knowledge and forms of transportation changes.
I believe that my progressive friends prefer to develop a society of "Maintenance Payments". They focus upon the end result of "equality" and less upon the central forces that must be present with a heavy hand to "equalize".
To the person who seeks to run fast with his extra effort AND benefit personally from it this system will inevitably see his velocity and target him for milking.
To the person who is at the back of the pack and thus below the line that no "equal human being" will ever be allowed to fall - this centralized force will give resources to him so that he might be brought up to this standard.
I challenge the progressive to look beyond the fact that this individual gets to eat for another day. Instead consider what is INCULCATED within this person as a result of your gratis. Fast forward for 30 or 50 years. Will this group of people that you have "maintained" be "maintained" in their present condition or will they be prosperous?
More to the point - will they be in any particular condition to take what they have learned from you and go help other "Least Of These" people somewhere else in the world?
The likely answer is "NO".
You did not show them the intrinsic value and competencies that they have to stand fully erect. YOU showed him that YOU cared for him as an "equal human being", with the right to live at a certain minimum standard. It was his presence next to you - his radiant heat source - that afforded him to live as he does.
He is not inclined to depart from you, venturing out into the cold where other "Least Of These" people and seek to render any "heat energy" upon them. He will be too fearful that he might freeze.
Prove to me that the "Progressive" has the mission of DEVELOPING "the Least Of These" and I will yield and become a PROGRESSIVE.
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