Hope For Humanity

Hope for Humanity
It is clear that at the heart of Obama’s belief in policy, stands a bold dedication to creating a collectivist society. His naïve ideology of altruism is expressed in the form of rhetorical speeches that inspire people in the most unusual way. Denouncing the rich and punishing achievement have become overwhelmingly popular, and it terrifies me even more to know that our president endorses the idea.

“We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for
being thin… one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in
our children, is a sense of ‘usefulness’, in other words, are we useful,
are we making other peoples’ lives a little bit better?”
- Barack Obama

The progressive income tax system currently in place, put there by people who
think like Obama, contradicts this statement to the max. With capital gains
taxes rising and government intervention on a never ending run, we see nothing
but punishment given to the rich. This quote reveals an opinion about how Obama
sees the rich, and that he views social service as a much more important value
than self-interest. Although, clearly self-interest is the vehicle in which all
beings travel to stay alive. If one wasn’t self-interested he would not bother
to go out of his way to kill the poor fish for which he would eat for dinner in
order to get the nutrition he needs to stay alive. Furthermore, if I was
stripped of all self-interest, would I not also be stripped of any will to live?
Essentially what Obama is saying, is that your “usefulness” to society is more
important than your life itself. But without an individual life, there is
no society.

Is it possible that Obama has never learned to draw the distinction between hard
work and a life of living off his income from serving others? Have his
early “organizing” days made it possible for him to live off of donations from
others rather than from his own production? Is it possible that all his
life he has avoided doing anything truly
productive?
It is a sad truth that today most politicians are put into leadership roles
in the worst of all ways. They start out by focusing on collective goals and
organizing people around a movement that has an ideological base. They learn
what it takes to convince people that they actually care about them, but they do
not produce valuable goods or protection to society as a whole. They
appeal to altruism and inspire short circuit minds to vote for political
“change”; the kind of change which emulates Robin Hood, finding enemies of the
people and convincing the people that we must fight these enemies. Most
often these enemies are rich individuals who have accomplished productive
careers.
Obama and many other dictators of the past have had to gain their
power through agitation. They invent an atrocity and then convince the “poor”
that they have been unfairly treated. First, he assumes that business
enterprises don’t belong to the business owners or “big corporations”; they
belong to the people and the “big corporations” have robbed the people of their
ability to make a living by keeping their profits rather than investing them in
people. This justifies “protections” for the workers that cannot be
implemented if the workers are not productive or if other conditions change in
the marketplace. These imposed “protections” are nothing more than the
meddling of a person who has no idea what it takes to run a corporation.
The
truth is that none of Obama’s tactics, economic policies or even his hope for a
better future, can make every American’s dream possible. Obama creates
nothing, produces nothing and can only use the power of government to manipulate
business enterprises by means of forcing them to tow the government line.
But these businesses must already be productive before any of Obama’s hopes can
be realized. It will not be Obama who will make them successful but hard
working business owners and productive employees. In fact, the only thing
that can make every American’s dream possible is a market free of the
manipulations of people like Obama.Too often people fail to understand that
before one must become rich, one must first organize resources and actually
perform work. Too often people give in to emotions and fill themselves with
hatred for no reason. We must resist the hatred we feel towards others who have
performed and accomplished. We must remember that ours is the one society
in history that established the freedom that creates the opportunity to become
rich. We need to stop this ever growing bias towards wealthy individuals, which
is promoted by a welfare state ready to be empowered. We must abandon the idea
that government can grant us our every wish, and we must analyze the parts of
history in which people lost hope and looked to the government for answers.
We must abandon the idea that government is the source of wealth and can
make anything happen with the push of a button, because this idea has provided
innumerable excuses for foreign dictators. We must take the hope that
Obama wants everyone to invest in the government, and invest that hope in
something that is more likely to return. We must invest that hope into
ourselves, as individuals of a free society. And until we do this we will
continue to drag the chains of self-sacrifice and forced altruism.