Hard work, sacrifice, and the freedom to rise

     I had to endure listening to a “liberal” coworker endlessly lament the shrinking of America’s middle class because the rich were too rich. I finally had to intervene and correct his ill-conceived thoughts. I began by discussing America’s last wave of immigrants circa the 1900’s. We both agreed that they were incredibly hard working. Our grandparents were incredibly hardworking and frugal. Their parents even more so which continues with each previous generation. Hard work, sacrifice, and the freedom to rise created the middle class and hard work, sacrifice, and the freedom to rise created this nation, its wealth and power. What is destroying the middle class, I explained, is not the rich creating too much of the pie. Rather, it is an ever growing percentage of the population creating too little of the pie. 

     They are becoming ever more dependent on entitlements, hooked on government-provided services, and have to work less and less and less because our nation’s massive and growing safety nets now provide a cradle to grave decent living. A large percentage of our population expects a materialistically high standard of living yet doesn’t want to do the backbreaking labor, rigorous studies, penny pinching, or sacrifice earlier generations had to do to acquire it. We are succumbing to the warm feel-good of socialism and because of this an ever growing percentage of the population no longer saves for their children’s education, their own retirement or retirement healthcare, they no longer have to worry about where the food on their table comes from, who’ll pay their utility bills, or even the roof over their head. The audaciously aloof attitudes within our massive and exponentially growing low income neighborhoods is all the proof you’ll need to see that this is, in fact, a very real phenomenon. 

     As the horsepower of our nation’s workforce dwindles and they become more entitled, our nation will decline, government spending will continue to rise, and we will continue to veer wildly off our founding path by over-burdening and over taxing our shrinking pool productive workers, violating their Constitutional right to equal protection under the law and their right to own and keep their own property. As this phenomenon continues to spread unabated, we face a mortal threat when the unproductive dependents produce socialist electoral landslides who’ll use their unchecked power to turn the page of our nation’s history into something rotten. Much to my surprise, my “liberal” coworker agreed.

 CB

The Evidence Is In At UC Davis

 h/t to The Right Scoop

First let me offer up the evidence (so far):

• We have police warning the protestors.

• We have this telling interview "We had encircled them [campus police], and they were trying to leave, and they were trying to clear a path. And so, we sat down, linked arms, and said that if they wanted to clear the path, they would have to go through us"

• We have more video of the protestors being clearly warned and they were cool with it

• Then we have the video that everybody has seen, over and over.

Which video do you think the #Occupiers and the Main Stream Media is publicizing the most? What a surprise, right? This is a perfect example, in my opinion, of how the left leaning media (which is just about all of them) is manipulating public opinion. How many "humorous" Photoshopped pictures of the cop pepper spraying someone have you seen? All based on what the media has chosen to report, what they have chosen for you to see. Bias by omission.

We have video proof that the protestors at UC Davis purposely did not comply, were warned repeatedly, they provoked and surrounded the police officers leaving them (the police) no choice but to follow through with their warnings. Yet we have MSM talking heads calling the police pigs. Why is the media not reporting these events leading up to the pepper spraying? Because it doesn't fit the leftist, liberal narrative... #OWS, Democrats and the media NEED the public opinion to be in favor of these protestors, after all they're "the reason" Obama "ran for office in the first place.”

The protestors are useful idiots being used by the Marxist unions, the Democrats and a long list of other nefarious groups and organizations. The media is manipulating public opinion because after all, the main stream media IS one of those nefarious organizations.

Don't be one of the manipulated. Don't take the complacent, water carrying media's word for it, DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK.

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