THE LEFT’S NEW RELIGION

And Your Money

Robert Kiyosaki: “Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.”

At one time, people admired you for being able to earn a great income. Sure, some would envy you, but even the “hobos” would come around offering to do some work for food and spare change. The entitlement mentality hadn’t taken over, like the Borg.

The Left took their political opinions and plank and turned it into a religion, such that any disagreement or challenge to their “truth” was heresy. For that, you should be punished. Their religion claims that if you earn money, there is less for everyone else, as if it is a pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. That’s not how economics works. The Left also believes that those who work hard owe it to others to give them money, even if the recipient does nothing. While Jesus might have said something similar, it was a voluntary act, not one forced by taxation, fees, regulations or other punitive actions. Most people who have enough donate money, time and effort, but with taxation, we all are forced to support too many things we wouldn’t support if we had any choice at all.

The Concept of Earned Money

In the history of America, the ability to earn money and choose how to spend it has been the root of our flourishing as a country. One of the newest countries, we quickly came to dominate in the world economy. Our innovation, our hard-work, gritty spirit, and our freedom made us an economic powerhouse. Every country that has gone against America’s core economic system has failed. Look at the USSR, look at all the people starving in North Korea, see how Hong Kong, once a rival powerhouse, has fallen silent under the fist of China.

“No one is entitled to anything” was a core motto. In a time before over-generous State welfare, people helped out their neighbor. Teams gathered to rebuild a barn after a fire, bail out a neighbor during hard times and the like. It was only when the government decided to force charity on us by taxing us heavily that two groups formed: the hard-workers and the takers. The Left would call them the “oppressors” and the “oppressed.” But ignoring the language doesn’t change the bottom line. Without people willing to work, there is nothing available for those who need help. And without pressure to get back at it, people start relying on generational welfare, which disempowers them. We ALL should be working.

The Left’s Take on Money

From what you hear, progressives think that ALL the money is the property of the government to be distributed as “the smart people in the room” desire. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Karl Marx. While it may sound like a Christian virtue, the inevitable result is that some people become slaves to those who simply “need.” It doesn’t work. Look at our border. Once cities became ridiculously generous with taxpayer money, providing anything illegals might desire, millions crossed our border.

Let’s look at a more rational argument, from a terrific speech by copper industrialist, Francisco d’Anconia in the book, Atlas Shrugged.

“So, you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

“If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose–because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity–to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality.

“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips, and guns–or dollars. Take your choice–there is no other–and your time is running out.”

Which definition resonates better with you? The religion of the Left where you only profit by indolence, or the idea that the more you work, the more you gain? What would happen if we all “shrugged?” If no one works and just waits around to take, where does wealth come from?

No one is owed a living. If we got the government out of the business of charity, we’d go back to a world where people helped each other, but also held each other responsible. Once you were back on your feet, you got back to work. No one is entitled to a life of indolence. No one is entitled to live drugged up or drunk with someone else paying the tab. It’s time to call the Left on their lies and to disband the religion they are inflicting on us. After all, all they really have is a set of opinions, many of which are provably wrong.