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Robert Rohlfing | September 30, 2010
Leveling The Playing Field
The time to face the reality of responsibility is now upon us! Sacrificing to stay within our means and to hold the government accountable to do the same not only goes to deter the greed that all of us were enticed with be it the financial institutions, big business, big labor, big government, and yes us the citizens that took us off the tracks in the first place.
With unemployment hovering around 10% and 1 in 7 Americans teetering on the poverty level facing the prospect that they may never recover from the losses that they incurred with the excess that they previously enjoyed, we cannot look to the government as the savior. We have been told time and again that if we just give this stimulus package a chance or if we support this or that welfare program that all will be well and that we will recover as a whole, but the sad truth of the matter is that none of these programs and over excessive welfare spending programs are helping recover our economy nor helping dig us out of the hole that we are currently facing.
The blame for this mess lays equally on our shoulders just as much as it lays on the shoulders of those we send to office. The more that we deny our role in this the longer it will take for us to have a chance to turn the tables on the spiraling demise that faces this great nation and society that we have come to take for granted. Just as we look to the mistakes that the government has made over the last 20 months and 6 years in congress we have to also realize that in many ways they have been mirroring many of the mistakes that we have made in our own personal lives. When the government decided that they can go on an orgy of new spending on frivolous programs and over exuberated special interest initiatives many are failing to recognize that this same paradigm occurred with the way that we ourselves conducted our lives. For some time now we made choices to decide that we can live in excess of the boundaries that are placed around us with what we earn and have on hand, and instead decided that it is perfectly acceptable to follow along a path of indulgence at the sacrifice of common sense. This same thing has and is playing out on a grander stage with the way that our government continues to throw cash at things that have no real bearing on recovery of growth or to set us back on a course that will allow us to progress into the future on an even keel.
When we continue to demand that we want it all, we make a conscious decision that we will have these things at all cost. We set up the prospect that our sustainability to balance our needs from our wants will cancel the common sense that states that we have to prioritize resources that would otherwise carry us forward and allow us to weather the rough waters that ebb and flow over the course of time. This fundamental rule has been ignored not only in the way that we lived beyond our means by purchasing homes that were beyond our income ratios, and living off of the illusion that we can continue to live by way of the credit card. The blame game is cast upon not only the government, but also big business and financial institutions that in all rights were catering to the demands that we put forth. It is easy to say that it is all the big bad bankers fault that we are in this mess due to the lending practices that they were allowed to exercise and that they continue to enjoy the rewards that came from this exercise in irresponsibility, but what fails to be mentioned time and again many also reaped rewards as well and it was that incentive that allowed the practices to continue unchecked.
The same people that are now the most vocal chastising these practices, were the same people that went about thinking that they were the new Donald Trump’s flipping one home after another. These same people were the ones running up the credit cards as if there were no limit putting in all the top line amenities at the same time trying to live the lifestyle of the rich and famous with new cars and diners out at all the fine restaurants. When the Congress took a path that everyone should be allowed the privilege of owning a home they took away the safeguards that restricted access to fraudulent loans to those that by no right should be approved for loans that could never be repaid. It was the demand that fueled the fire to our economic downfall and shared responsibility from all needs to be understood, if it was not our demand the banks would have never allowed so much credit to be issued and the time of playing class warfare and not accepting responsibility for our own actions is upon us.
As bitter a pill it may seem, shared responsibility and shared sacrifice is the only thing that is going to work to ever have a chance that allows us to recover from the mess of our own creation. Just as it has been forced on the vast majority of people that they had to reset the lifestyle that they were accustomed to, a reset of our mindset of reliance on big government, big business, and big labor to provide for all our demands has to be embraced. If we fail to do so we will just continue the revolving door that has allowed us to continue arriving time and again at the juncture that we are at today. We cannot spend our way out of this mess, that is the same theory as borrowing from one credit card to cover the balance on another. We cannot keep demanding that we get all the benefits and demands that hinders the growth of business that provides us with the jobs in the first place just because we feel that we are owed and that it might not be fair that someone else might make more or have more than us. The whole practice of basing the jealous approach to what we feel as fair only goes to divide us further and at some point those that do have will take their ball and go elsewhere, this we see with how our government and labor demand on the private sector business that they alone sacrifice through higher and higher taxes and demands that they provide by force to carry the burden set upon them through mandates that is not conducive of an environment that is friendly for them to survive. The working class has to share just as much as demanded of business and realize that if government continues to grow unabated and continues to attempt the course that it is currently on, where to be our brothers keepers that redistribution of wealth and resources to prop up those that may be unwilling and not unable to contribute equally that at some point the house of cards crumbles. If we do not set a course that is responsible and conducive to economic growth we will only stagnate and force the engines of growth to more friendly shores and then instead of seeing the poverty levels and unemployment levels as they currently sit we will see a steep rise all across the board and the reality that it was us that forced this to occur will be fully shared across the board.
Those that continue to want to play the class warfare game and demand that we have to take from another so that it levels the playing field better understand something said a long time ago that you can only take from someone until they run out of resources themselves and at that point where do you turn? Accepting shared responsibility and shared sacrifice is the only way that we ever will have a chance to not level the playing field, but to give the opportunity of a chance that the playing field is equal for all to succeed on.
Robert Rohlfing
www.thedrumbeatofliberty.com
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