Posted on 01/27/2014 7:41:01 AM PST by gooblah
Coming up next: President Barack Obama solves inequality? Don’t hold your breath.
He’s building his new agenda around an issue that has been in the making for decades: economic inequality. It’s expected to be the major theme of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, and when Capitol Hill doesn’t act on his ideas, he says he’ll use a “pen and phone” strategy to do what he can without Congress.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/barack-obama-income-inequality-102609.html#ixzz2rc7tvtYj
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
And they keep moving the goal posts of what constitutes the “poor” in America. These days, the poor are obese and stand in line to buy $200 sneakers.
And things like the Pigford redistribution scam-every black person who ever grew a tomato plant in a pot could claim to be a farmer.
As long as there is inequality of ambition there will be inequality of outcome.
It isn't his salary that slaughters the budget, it is the benefit package...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."(Emphasis mine.)
That means that we all start off equal, and that we have the right to strive (work) to attain Happiness. Nowhere in our founding documents is "happiness" or "equality of outcome" guaranteed.
Neither do those documents -- anywhere -- even imply that it is the role or duty of government to provide 'Happiness'.
Even the phony man-god Obastard cannot make people equal in talent, strength, intelligence, virtue and courage.
So, he’s going full-bore Commie? What else is new?
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