Our broken wagon

 

 

"When too many people ride in the wagon, and/or there are not enough pulling the wagon, the wagon breaks..."

Okay - it is over. The SOTU speech was everything it was cracked up to be. Empty promises, free stuff, snarky comments , more free stuff, more programs, scolding and more free stuff. No, I did not watch it. I did not have to. Every station was playing the highlights (or lowlights) from the speech. Blah, blah, blah. It was all about putting more people in the wagon and to continue whipping the folks pulling the wagon.

Truthfully, I am often amazed when I hear a Leftie give a speech on what is wrong with America. How little they understand about our economy. About Capitalism. About our Constitution. About simple economics. Sometimes I believe many of these folks still believe in Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy and money trees.

One of the snarky comments the President used last night was telling Republicans they should try raising a family on $15,000 a year. Here is a news flash for POTUS - most of us worked for minimum wage at one time or the other. It was common when we were young and untrained. MOST PEOPLE, become dissatisfied with that kind of salary. MOST PEOPLE figure out a scheme, going to college, tech school, or whatever, to get a better job paying a higher salary. The minimum wage was NEVER intended to raise a family on.

So people who have figured this out, who have become successful through hard work and innovation, are now the bad guys. The ones who pull the wagon are being asked to pull harder. Not to do so, is selfish. I honestly believe that many of the Left think we should scrap our current Constitution and replace it with a system of government which is a hybrid of Socialism and Communism. That is what "equal outcomes" and "fairness" is all about. "Equal opportunity" is way too hard. It involves work. It involves getting out of the wagon.

If I can stay on the wagon issue for a bit longer. I see a successful America as being made up of three types of people. The first group, who have the means to do so, will continue to be the "strong horses" pulling the wagon. The next group will be people WALKING ALONG SIDE of the wagon. These are people who at one time rode in the wagon, but pulled themselves up by the bootstraps to get out of the wagon. The third group contain people who truly need to ride in the wagon. These people, by no fault of their own, cannot make enough to support themselves. This way, the wagon will never break, and the wagon pullers will remain strong and vibrant.

When Ronald Reagan became the Governor of California, California was a mess. Many, many people were riding in the wagon. Many of them were people who had no business riding in the wagon. Then Governor Reagan became instantly unpopular with the Lefties. People who could work, were thrown out of the wagon. People who could not work by no fault of their own, were given some of the best benefits in the country. Suddenly, California's wagon was fixed.

The next two years will tell much about our country. How our wagon will look. If it will break, or if it will still be able to work. Time will tell.