Myth of Equality

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Yesterday I felt a bit guilty because I had a good week and others faced trials. Yes, I had two exciting and dangerous days, but all in all things have been really well. I even went kayaking safely for the first time and was able to run a 10K this morning without any hiccups. Life is good, but societal pressures make me feel like it's not ok to celebrate good news.

As I opined this with a close friend who is sick, she told me it was ok to be happy, because she's happy I had a good week. I'm not going to go get myself sick to bring myself down. That doesn't help either of us. How can one man be caregiver if both are sick? Yet that seems to be exactly what people propose when it comes to economic duress. In their quest for the supposedly desirable notion of 'equality', they attempt to bring those who are successful down. How does that help the people who are economically sick to spread around the infection? Making everyone sick doesn't make anyone healthy any more than making everyone poor makes anyone rich

Equality is secretly code for a campaign for larger government. In order for there to be true equality, someone must define it and enforce it. Government is the only thing large enough and powerful enough to do that besides an internal conscience, and most people will admit that morality holds far too little power to accomplish this. What those who tout equaility really want is that you become dependent on government. Thomas Paine reminds us that "this therefore is the origin and rise of government, namely a mode made necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world (Common Sense, pg 3)."

How else can one explain the celebration over welfare programs? We now have 47 million Americans on food stamps, as if 47 million among us would starve if not for that assistance. We now have 47% of the population who pay no income taxes. They are takers. These programs are clothed in odd old elements stolen forth from holy write to make the administrators thereof seem saints when most they play the devil. They claim to help the poor, but they keep men poor.

For example, this morning the radio reported that the RTC in Vegas reports a fare increase, which will hurt the poor. Rich people dont' ride the bus, particularly after some yahoo smashed into a bus stop while intoxicated at 100mph and killed several people including one of his own passengers. They want us out of our cars where they can control us. My car, ugly and old as it is, is freedom. The RTC monthly pass costs just over $1/day. Sure, it costs me $4/day in gas for work, but I am free to do a lot of other things. I can get up and work out, read scriptures, drive to work, run errands enroute or on the way home, go out for lunch, work a second job after work, etc. The extra money I pay is for the convenience to do what I want on my own terms. Government wants to set the terms.

This is even why they attack religion. You see, "there is God and there is government; God is greater than government, and government doesn't like that (Inga Barks)". As long as God sets the terms and dishes out the rights, there is something more powerful than they are. They seek power. It's very Luthorian of them to think they can partner with General Zod and not also be ruled by him. It's acceptable to mock Mormons but not Muslims, and that's because Mormons won't pull people's arms out of their sockets if they don't get fair treatment. You don't see Mormons tearing down flags and killing ambassadors because of a Broadway mockumentary on the Book of Mormon. That's the 'religion of peace' that responds to a film.

Most of the politicians who promise equality do not mean prosperity. There is only one way to guarantee equality- to make all men miserable. That's where they are headed. Who is better off than four years ago? Barack Obama is. He got is. To hell with you, which is exactly what they propose to build here. They ignore the fallacy of trying to make on earth, which is fallen, the utopia that heaven alone can sustain.