Have you ever noticed that people who are against things only go to meetings held by other people with like views?
Have you ever noticed that people seem to pay attention only to the polls that support their views?
Have you ever noticed that most people have an opinion long before meetings and polls are made public, and that those meetings and polls rarely change anyone’s mind?
Have you ever seen a pro-war rally?
Have you ever attended a demonstration supporting capitalism?
Those who choose to divide us have almost mastered their techniques to do so, and many are just standing around letting them do it.
We are told that we need to be “more fair.” We are told that, “everyone needs to pay his or her fair share.” We are told that we need “fair and level playing fields.” We are told that giving blue ribbons to winners in “not fair to those who tried.”
The common thread in all these attempts to divide and conquer is this notion of “fairness.” Nobody wants to be unfair, and those who have, say a terrible record of accomplishment, only have their pleas to us to lower our standards to meet theirs because it is “only fair.”
We can state over and over that the top one percent of the earners paid 38 percent of the taxes and the bottom 50 percent paid only three percent of the taxes. We can state with factual basis that about 49 percent of the U.S. households paid no federal income tax at all.
We can say it, but those who want to scream, “it isn’t fair” do not listen; and the sad thing is, their scrams are being heard and our facts are being ignored by them.
There is no doubt that, on a national level, there is a focused effort to create a class-warfare among Americans, and too many stand by thinking that we are too great a nation to allow it to happen. But it is happening and it will continue to happen if we do not take action. If nothing else changes (and it will) our national debt will equal our gross domestic product in less than eight years. Over the next few years spending on entitlement programs alone will drive the debt to unsustainable levels and this “tax the wealthy” mantra is not the answer. The wealthy do not have enough wealth to make a difference. It is time to stop the spending.
It is time to stop letting politicians lie to us while we justify the lies by assuming that everyone does it. It is time to tell our leaders to lead and not just make campaign speeches. It is time to tell the mainstream media that we are dissatisfied with them and refuse to accept their blatant promotion of one-sided news stories that are nothing more than opinion.
It is time to have a meeting.
