Last
Saturday I was on Pryor Creek preg-checking cows for
my buddy, Steve. This year was different because his
youngest, Caleb, now bigger than his dad, provided
the muscle to run the head catch. He did a great
job. Chelsea, the oldest, has run a vaccine gun for
years, and both have seen hundreds of daybreaks from
the back of a horse, so ranch kids working cattle is
not unusual…at least for the moment. The Department
of Labor is proposing rules prohibiting Chelsea and
Caleb from doing what they have done since they were
big enough to hold the reins. To the hope and
changers of big government, our youth are better
molded by video games, Twitter and Facebook than the
sweat earned running a post bar, squeeze chute or
hoof rasp. (This rule is open for public comment,
but don’t waste your time. Government always knows
what is best, so the decision has been made.)
To get a glimpse of big government’s new America,
compare Caleb and Chelsea eagerly attacking their
chute side chores to the disgruntled city kids back
east protesting how the world economic collapse
could snap the supply chain of their government
freebies. Called Occupiers on Wall Street, the
demonstrators mostly want your wallet. I think one
summer occupying the hayfields on Pryor Creek or a
winter occupying the oil fields of North Dakota
might change their perspective. You can’t fix
stupid, but long hours and sweaty saddle blankets
does have the shocking therapeutic effect of
revealing life is really not about you and all the
goodies to which you feel entitled. Unfortunately,
lacking this foundation of hard labor, the years of
indoctrination in taxpayer funded universities has
permanently twisted the Occupiers’ logic. To them,
we producers must get by with less so they can
receive all they want while doing absolutely
nothing—all day long, day after day after day. Life
is so rosy when you are delusional.
The White House, Representative Pelosi, former Vice
President Al Gore, the American Nazi Party and the
Communist Party USA have all publicly supported the
Occupiers, and view them as the political left’s
equivalent of the right’s Tea Party movement. They
are wrong and this is just another swing and a miss
for the failing political ideology of social
justice. The Tea Partiers are driven by a patriotic
love of country and the yearning to return to the
constitutional principles upon which our republic
was founded. The Occupiers, desirous of a new
America where the force of government redistributes
all wealth, are nothing more than useful
idiots—simple pawns blindly serving their
manipulators. From the prohibition of ranch kids
learning by the sweat of their brow, to green energy
scams, to nationalized health care, to the taking of
property without compensation, America is reaching
the apex of a conflict years in the making.
In 1913, the “Sixteenth Amendment” introduced our
republic to the Marxist wealth redistributive
technique of the progressive income tax. Just
because you are smarter, work harder or longer,
being penalized by a higher percentage tax penalty
defies logic, so logic has simply been removed from
the equation. The masses are much easier to subdue
when they are ignorant.
Interestingly and very timely, presidential
candidate Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Tax Plan contradicts
the teachings of Marx, so the left is viciously
attacking him. For now, ignore the percentage and
direct your attention to the concept of taxing the
incomes of all Americans at the same rate—exactly as
our founders designed and as was the case for the
125 years from 1788 to 1913. This decapitates the
incentive to elect officials who promise
constituents the greatest goodies from the treasury
paid by someone else; something the framers of our
constitution feared. The 9-9-9 Tax Plan could be the
death nail in the coffin of Marxism so don’t expect
the Occupiers to give-up easily. When push comes to
shove, something the Occupiers threaten, will you
stand for liberty or do you feel entitled to the
bounty earned by the sweat of others?
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