enough braying
The Three Pillars Academia, Media and the DNC) have put us where we are today.
“Fairness,” as urged by the left, is impossible. I’ll prove it:
Suppose you have a small company that takes care of lawns. You have two employees. You agree to pay them $10 for each lawn that they mow. The yards in the housing development are identical.
One employee is big and strong and energetic, and he mows 10 lawns a day, earning $100.
The other employee is small and weak and lazy and he mows 5 lawns a day, earning $50.
According to liberal philosophy, “IT’S NOT FAIR.” One guy is earning twice as much as the other for doing the same job. But, as is obvious to anyone with a brain (that excludes liberals) the two workers are clearly not doing the same job. One is doing twice as much as the other. It would actually BE UNFAIR if they were paid the same.
Of course, in lib-land, it is usually difficult to tell who is doing a good job and who is doing a mediocre or bad job. Two teachers with the same number of years of experience might differ greatly in their ability to teach, but, according to the union, they must be paid the same. And, when comparing a teacher to a carpenter or a venture capitalist or a third-baseman who hits 50 home runs a year, the analysis becomes a lot more complicated than the one in my simple lawn-mowing example. And that makes it easy for libs to scream “unfair” and for the sheeple to accept it as the gospel.
The so-called "progressives" use the terms, "fairness" and "fair share," and few Americans may recognize their semantic trickery. For instance, when one looks at the histories of nations, "fair share," when preached by political leaders, is just "slavery" by another name.
Government "masters" buy votes in exchange for retaining their "master redistributionist" status, while their "voters" yield up freedom for themselves and future generations.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
All who doubt the wisdom of Lewis might watch the video of the President's remarks at a National Prayer Breakfast. There, Obama arrogantly misappropriated Jesus's spiritual challenge to individuals for voluntary charity, claiming those words as validating and authorizing abusive use of coercive power by himself and his cronies to "take" from some in order to buy votes and accumulate more power to themselves--all in the name of "helping" the beneficiaries of such unconstitutional "takings."
Hear Samuel Adams:
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
Further, we might consult James Madison in THE FEDERALIST:
"If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"The propensity of all single and numerous assemblies (is) to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
Note particularly the following words of wisdom from Federalist No. 63:
"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" - Federalist Papers, No. 63, 1788
Great post!
One of your best essays. Issa should read this as his opening statement for the next committee hearing.