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Two Americas Not One

<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Two Americas<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Two Americas&excl;  The below article was taken from an e-mail provided by an interested party&period;  I am in agreement with the principles stated&period;  <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnsnews&period;com&sol;video&sol;national&sol;oreilly-americas-race-problem"><u><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;0066cc&semi;">Much of it is also summarized by Mr&period; Bill O&&num;8217&semi;Reilly in one of his commentaries at this link&period;<&sol;span><&sol;u><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>Lou Holtz nails it&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The Democrats are right&comma; there are two Americas&period;  The America that works&comma; and the America that doesn’t&period;  The America that contributes&comma; and the America that doesn’t&period; It’s not the haves and the have nots&comma; it’s the dos and the don&&num;8217&semi;ts&period; Some people do their duty as Americans&comma; obey the law&comma; support themselves&comma; contribute to society&comma; and others don&&num;8217&semi;t&period; That’s the divide in America&period; It’s not about income inequality&comma; it’s about civic irresponsibility&period; It’s about a political party that preaches hatred&comma; greed and victimization in order to win elective office&period; It’s about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country&period; That’s not invective&comma; that’s truth&comma; and it’s about time someone said it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The politics of envy was on proud display a couple weeks ago when President Obama pledged the rest of his term to fighting &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;income inequality&period;” He noted that some people make more than other people&comma; that some people have higher incomes than others&comma; and he says that’s not just&period; That is the rationale of thievery&period; The other guy has it&comma; you want it&comma; Obama will take it for you&period; Vote Democrat&period; That is the philosophy that produced Detroit&period; It is this electoral philosophy that is destroying America&period; It conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense because it ends up not benefiting the people who support it&comma; but a betrayal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The Democrats have not empowered their followers&comma; they have enslaved them in a culture of dependence and entitlement&comma; of victimhood and anger instead of ability and hope&period; The president’s premise – that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful–seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices&period; Because&comma; by and large&comma; income variations in society are a result of different choices leading to different consequences&period; Those who choose wisely and responsibly have a far greater likelihood of success&comma; while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Success and failure usually manifest themselves in personal and family income&period; You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college – and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education&period; You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course&semi; you have them within a marriage and life is apt to take another course&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take&period; My doctor&comma; for example&comma; makes far more than I do&period;  There is significant income inequality between us&period; Our lives have had an inequality of outcome&comma; but our lives also have had an in equality of effort&period; While my doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency&comma; I got a job in a restaurant&period; He made a choice&comma; I made a choice&comma; and our choices led us to different outcomes&period; His outcome pays a lot better than mine&period; Does that mean he cheated&comma; and Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth&quest; No&comma; it means we are both free men in a free society where free choices lead to different outcomes&period; It is not inequality Barack Obama intends to take away&comma; it is freedom&period; The freedom to succeed&comma; and the freedom to fail&period; There is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy&period; Even if the other guy sat on his arse and did nothing&period; Even if the other guy made a lifetime’s worth of asinine and short-sighted decisions&period; Barack Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right&comma; while completely ignoring inequality of effort&period; The simple Law of the Harvest – as ye sow&comma; so shall ye reap – is sometimes applied as&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The harder you work&comma; the more you get&period;&&num;8221&semi; Obama would turn that upside down&period;  Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society&period; Entitlement will replace effort as the key to upward mobility in American society if Barack Obama gets his way&period; He seeks the lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive to foster equality through mediocrity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">He and his party speak of two Americas&comma; and their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other&period; America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes&comma; it is divided by the differences in our efforts&period; It is a false philosophy to say one man’s success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man’s victimization&period; What Obama offered was not a solution&comma; but a separatism&period;  His fomented division and strife pitted one set of Americans against another for his own political benefit&period; That’s what socialists offer&period;  Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow&period; Two Americas&comma; coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln’s maxim that a house divided against itself cannot stand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi; Lou Holtz Leo &&num;8220&semi;Lou&&num;8221&semi; Holtz &lpar;born January 6&comma; 1937&rpar; is a retired American football coach&comma; and active sportscaster&comma; author&comma; and motivational speaker&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Happy moments&comma; PRAISE GOD&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Difficult moments&comma; SEEK GOD&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Quiet moments&comma; WORSHIP GOD&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Painful moments&comma; TRUST GOD&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Every moment&comma; THANK GOD&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;squeekx&period;com&sol;blog&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;06&sol;america-of-today-is-viewed-in-the-rear-view-mirror-display&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">America Today<&sol;a><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><strong>The above article was first published by Donald McElyea on the website &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ihaveheard&period;com” on August 31&comma; 2014&period; The subject and observations are just as valid today<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<a class&equals;"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox" data-provider&equals;"facebook" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow" title&equals;"Share on Facebook" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;sharer&period;php&quest;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;squeekx&period;com&percnt;2F2015&percnt;2F07&percnt;2F27&percnt;2Ftwo-americas-not-one&percnt;2Famp&percnt;2F&&num;038&semi;t&equals;Two&percnt;20Americas&percnt;20Not&percnt;20One&&num;038&semi;s&equals;100&&num;038&semi;p&&num;091&semi;url&&num;093&semi;&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;squeekx&period;com&percnt;2F2015&percnt;2F07&percnt;2F27&percnt;2Ftwo-americas-not-one&percnt;2Famp&percnt;2F&&num;038&semi;p&&num;091&semi;images&&num;093&semi;&&num;091&semi;0&&num;093&semi;&equals;&&num;038&semi;p&&num;091&semi;title&&num;093&semi;&equals;Two&percnt;20Americas&percnt;20Not&percnt;20One" style&equals;"font-size&colon; 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