Saturday, October 24, 2009

The War on Upward Mobility

It's nearly one year into Barack Obama's presidency and we have experienced changes that were unimaginable for the prior 233 years in the United States of America. We have watched the government take over car companies, banks, mortgage companies and even hint at oil and gas being nationalized.

The startling moment for me was the idea to de-construct Obama and bore it down to the barest roots of his ideology and what it really means to the average person in America...it is an all-out onslaught on upward mobility.

Obama's radical Communist agenda manifests itself in the simple fact that via his policies and laws, it will be nearly impossible to improve oneself, save being a bureaucrat.

If you analyze what the true America Dream is, it's the ability to not have a ceiling. There is no caste system nor royalty to impede your progress at whatever you do. The American Dream is George Washington and George Foreman; Bill Gates and Howard Hughes; Sam Walton and Sam Zell; Tiger Woods and Jennifer Aniston. America is an idea, an idea that our Founders gave us as a framework to lot let government in and intrude; to keep out of people's lives, let capitalism move us forward and allow the extra harvest be given back to the needy by individuals or religious groups, not a publicly-funded trough the Government lays out for enslaving dependence.

Every Obama policy moves us toward the inability for the pipe fitter's son to be a lawyer or the seamstresses daugther becoming a CEO. The Statist Obama and his Liberal minions via Health care, Cap and Trade, UN treaties, illegal amnesty, rolling back the Bush tax cuts, promoting unions and more and more litigation and regulation make it difficult to succeed. This is not an accident, it is his plan.

How many times have you known a plumber who hires another plumber, gets his business going and moves his family from Brooklyn up to Westchester? How many loan processors eventually become salespeople and surpass everyone in their office. How about a professional athlete who moves from poverty to a plush lifestyle seen on MTV?

Tyranny is at our gate, and it really won't mean we will all die (although H1N1/Rahm Emanuel's "never let a crisis go to waste" bring up some fear) but the Leftist agenda will not allow that guy to ever expand his business nor move himself up and out of his family's legacy.

We are a nation of bootstrappers, not carbon credit counters and socialized medicine recipients. We are Alexander Graham Bell and Oprah Winfrey, we are Starbucks, we are Michael Jordan and Jeff Gordon. England is a prime example of when Liberalism goes wild and effectively kills any upward mobility, in fact, 7% of the UK's tax base is dedicated to carbon offsets.

We need to move against Obama, the Democrats and the RINO's who want us poor and dependent, with no chance of ever being the Jeffersons.