Posted by
Benjamin Consuegra on Sunday, February 01, 2009 1:00:00 PM
Rising up from the smoldering ashes of every fallen communist/socialist/fascist nation is a Marxist ideal that has begun to permeate our nation's youth, every class of society, and most frightening of all, Washington D.C. This ideal is more detrimental to the continuing prosperity and survival of our nation than any other issue, besides of course Islamic Extremism. This classic "communist manifesto" idea is based on the doctrine of "fairness", which any sane person knows is a sickening and illogical fairytale. The most dangerous influence on our society is something we right-wingers like to call "wealth-envy".
"Wealth Envy" bared its teeth and dripping jowels more times in the previous election than I can count. It seems to have been brought up more than the war in Iraq. However, it was of course brought up in code. My personal favorite was the argument that the rich don't pay their fair share in taxes. President Barack Obama believes that they need to pay way more, and that the disgusting "Bush tax-cuts" need to end as soon as possible. Would you like to hear the kind of "amazing break" the rich are getting on their taxes? According the U.S. Treasury Department, the top 1% of income earners in our country account for 40% of the total tax revenue. Wow, that is so unfair! I can't believe their not paying 80% those greedy SOB's! How dare they get to keep the money that they worked for! Well with a crazy break like that let's hear just how badly the poor are being screwed by our "unfair" tax plan. Again, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, the bottom 50% of income earners in this country foot only 3% of the tax bill. Were you sure you read those last couple of sentences correctly? The top 1% or our citizens pay almost half of the countries bills, and the bottom 50% percent pays 3%. Does that seem fair? I'm not calling for the lower income earners to pay higher taxes by any means, but I am calling for the reader to consider the facts. The "evil rich" pay way more than their "fair-share". So with the facts out there for the public to obtain, why have so many people bought into this idiotic socialist viewpoint? Well, the answer if really quite simple.
"Wealth Envy" is a mental disease. It causes a person to completely block out the memory of their own failures and short-comings. Think about it. Every successful person that I personally know is an extremely smart, hard-working, and productive member of society. Many of them, including my father and his best friend, started out in the very bottom rungs of society and through perseverance, hard work and the grace of God became who they are today. Now think about the poorer, so-called "less fortunate" people that you know. Why are they in their current financial situation? Most likely it is because of their own bad choices in life. Maybe they didn't graduate high school, maybe the drink alot, or decided to start doing drugs. Nobody but yourself can make you unsuccessful. In our society you get out exactly what you put in. When people are consumed by the "wealth envy" disease they forget that their problems are just that, their problems. They begin to believe that the reason they don't have a multi-million dollar house is because that guy driving a Ferrari somehow stol his ability to obtain one. So, when politicians come along and spit rhetoric about the rich being "evil" and corporations only being out to exploit the little guy, weak people latch on to it.
So how should the rich be viewed? Abraham Lincoln said "that some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself." By this Lincoln meant to be inspired by those who are in a so-called "better situation" because envy breeds bitterness, which breeds hate. If there is one condition of the human heart that can tear down the grand dream that is America, it is hate.