The Green Eyed Monster Built The “Fiscal Cliff.”
Hey…you have more money than me…that’s not fair! Gimme some. I deserve it because I’m an American citizen. I deserve it because I’m a real nice guy who just didn’t get the breaks you obviously got. And I deserve it because we need to keep a level playing field.
It really bothers me to see you driving your fancier car, eating your fancier meals, flying first class, and making policies that other people will have to follow.
Well…don’t get too comfortable in your luxury SUV…or your high-brow restaurant, or that private jet. I found a way to make you give me some. How am I gonna do it? Vote!
Yep, voting is the great equalizer…or so millions of people have been duped into believing. By the stroke (or coloring in) of a pen on a ballot, a middle or lower class American citizen can help elect an official who’ll make sure the “rich” pay “their fair share.” And they believe they’ll actually get some of that booty.
Truth is…they’ll ultimately be the ones who pay…and pay…and pay.
America’s 2nd President, John Adams, had multiple negative things to say about this. He talked about how a democracy “soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” And I hear a lot of modern day “conservatives” lauding the constitution as our source of enlightenment and freedoms. President Adams said this about that… “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
And maybe you’ve heard of this quote attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
I attribute all this to the “green eyed monster.” Envy.
Just as the first paragraph, above, illustrates…envy wants what you have. Envy believes it deserves what you have. At least, if you have more, of course.
As for me, I do my best to wrestle and speak against the green eyed monster. I’m glad for you if you’ve managed to do well and prosper…especially in the midst of all this growing national envy. And guess what…rich people are a minority. I thought Americans were supposed to protect the rights of minorities. If you try harder to love and understand the “rich”, you’ll do yourself a favor.
Most “rich” people are amazing givers. By their own nature they’re not takers. They shouldn’t be forced…er…coerced and manipulated by any government to give even more…or their so-called “fair share.” Who gets to determine what “fair share” is anyway? The green eyed monster?
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