Barrack Obamas speech

Yea, he made another speech yesterday.

Frankly I am one of the poor he wants to distribute others peoples wealth to. If he was my rich uncle giving me his own money I would be glad to accept it. The truth is, Uncle Sam is not my Uncle and he is not rich. The fact is, Uncle Sam has no money of his own so takes a little from some and a lot from others in order to do things that benefit all. That's not a bad thing. There are things that we need that we could not or would not pay for on our own, like the military to protect us from foreign invaders, and roads and bridges and damns and water projects and, well, you get the idea.

For the rest of our needs, we should be and once were expected to work to provide for ourselves. The majority of people once did work but there are some who are just too lazy, too trifling, or too dishonest to get a job. Those people the government decided to help out with free food, free or low cost housing, and prison.

Then there some people who lost their job through no fault of their own and the government helps them for awhile anyway, long enough in most cases until they can find a job.

Some people have a job that pays really, really well like my young brother and some have a job that pays really well like my older brother and then some us have jobs that pays okay, like me. Others have sorry jobs that don't pay much at all and then some have incomes that are only dreams for most people and some people have money through no fault of their own, like the Kennedy's, the DuPont's, the Fords, and the Hilton's.

I know that some of these poor people have really cute kids and the kids get sick and the poor people can't have the kid doctored properly because they have little money and no health insurance.

Yes it would be nice if we lived in a society that valued each person equally and said that Joe is brilliant and can take an idea and turn it into reality and have a thriving business and Jill there can take a few pieces of knowledge and find a cure for an illness or a new way of doing something. Bob, on the other hand, is lucky enough to be a great singer and Jose is very athlete. Alice, on the other hand is capable of running a cash register.

In a society like that, then each person would be given equal pay for doing the best they could at what they are capable of doing.

That sounds nice but unless Joe likes working extremly hard to build something that is of no practical good to him, then he has no incentive to perform. Betty can run a cash register much faster and more accurately than Alice but if the monetary rewards are the same, why should she?

On paper the perfect society sounds nice but in reality it doesn't work. The Ameican system of capitalism and democracy doesn't work perfectly either but it actually works much better than the system that seems fairer on paper and in theory.

That is until people with good intentions try to turn the American way of life into the perfect, care for all equally society then things become a totaly mess, like we are in today.

The US keeps printing money as fast as it can and so much of it the other countries have begug to lose faith in thge dollar as the reserve currency of the world and are looking for alternatives. If one is found then the American economy will collapse around us.

We have to stop the madness before it is too late for us. It may already be.