Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The last time I looked, prosperity was EARNED not SHARED


Obama has now gone from:
  1. Joe the Plumber, ‘I just want to spread it around’ i.e. from each according to his ability to each according to his need’
  2. ‘You didn’t build that’ , i.e. we own your success since we built that road that carried the milk to you when you were 1
  3. “A new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared.” We demand that ownership belongs to the worker who happens to be there
Now as someone who ran a corporate division (without a union), I ENSURED that those who worked as if they owned a piece of the action were rewarded as if they owned a piece of the action. Frankly, I thought this very Ayn Randian, even though I wrote the software out of my own head, and almost completely on my own time that made the company produced products all work together. Why? Because the object of our actions was to INCREASE the sales and profits, and thus create whatever security could be created. The increase in earning for such employees was EARNED. Being alive and working where I was, was not in my mind, justification to reap the same kind of rewards of those who were committed. If those people had been rewarded, then the prosperity we created WOULD HAVE BEEN SHARED.
Obama seeks to denigrate success, profit, striving for material gain …even if that gain is the result of professional excellence, property, expansion, as the symptoms of a selfish system and a greedy nation and ethic.
I think I would like to know why.
It is HIS belief that these things are ultimately EVIL that is the beating heart of the disgusting demonizations which are applicable to the politicians of Syria, Iran, Russia, Hezballah, HAMAS, and many other places, but NOT THOSE WHO THINK INVENTION, PROFIT, RISK AND REWARD are honorable, and ultimately, not only ethical, but the ONLY WAY to ensure gain is shared by ALL.

1 comment:

Pastorius said...

And, of course, since he has never worked in the real world, he simply does not understand profit from an experiential standpoint, but instead, only understands it from University-taught Marxism.