{"id":2825,"date":"2014-01-26T09:17:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T14:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2014-01-26T09:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T14:17:59","slug":"obamas-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=2825","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s equality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let\u2019s be frank.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve said from the onset of the Intramuralist, no one need to agree with me.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 I\u2019m comfortable enough in my own skin to omit my opinions… and to admit that some of them may be wrong.\u00a0 I also may not know which ones are wrong.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 Some of yours are wrong, too…. and you may or may not know it.\u00a0 That said, we must still trod through all discussion and debate respectfully; such is key to solution.<\/p>\n

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My right-or-wrong opinion shared this day concerns the upcoming policy push by Pres. Obama.\u00a0 You can expect it to be hammered home in this week\u2019s State of the Union address.\u00a0 Friends, allow me to play most all my cards on the table…\u00a0 when Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) ran for president in 2008, there was much about him and his charisma that excited me.\u00a0 He was\/is no doubt brilliant and incredibly gifted. Privately, I admiringly called him \u201cBarackstar.\u201d\u00a0 But the chief concern I expressed when he initially ran for office was his lack of economic experience.<\/p>\n

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In all honesty, I care less about the party a person hails from than their background and experience.\u00a0 The fact that then Sen. Obama had little economic experience concerned me greatly.\u00a0 I desire a president who is first and foremost ethically above question \u2014 and then has proven experience working with diverse people groups and running a multi-million\/billion dollar state\/operation.\u00a0 The U.S. economy is a 16 plus trillion dollar operation; it\u2019s important to me that our leader has some experience with such.\u00a0 Pres. Obama, oratorically attractive as he was, did not have such experience.<\/p>\n

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Economists can gather and respectfully debate how such has affected his policy advocacy thus far.\u00a0 That is not the point of today\u2019s blog.\u00a0 The point is that in 2 days, on Tuesday, Pres. Obama is going to stress \u201cincome equality.\u201d\u00a0 In his annual State of the Union address, he is going to make the point for all the world to see (or at least for the United States)<\/i> that wealth among American households is unequally distributed \u2014 and<\/i> that the federal government has the responsibility to redistribute that wealth, in a way for all intents and purposes, that\u2019s arguably fairer to all.<\/p>\n

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Great.\u00a0 That makes many of us feel good.\u00a0 Here\u2019s my question:\u00a0 feel good or not, does it make economic sense?<\/p>\n

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Please hear me on this.\u00a0 Feeling good about a specific policy means less than whether or not the policy makes sense.\u00a0 Say what you want.\u00a0 Say what you want to energize the people.\u00a0 But if the policy does not make sense, it matters not how we feel.\u00a0 If the policy is not economically logical, then the policy should not be advocated for \u2014 and cannot be economically sustained.<\/p>\n

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This is not a criticism of Pres. Obama.\u00a0 He is a fantastic politician who is oratorically gifted, but again, he has little economic experience.\u00a0 Liking the President, wanting to support him and his policy initiatives, speaks nothing to the credence of whether or not his initiatives are economically sustainable, good, and true.<\/p>\n

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Hence, it doesn\u2019t matter how we feel.\u00a0 Economically, we cannot extract wealth from the wealthy, redistribute to the un-wealthy, and then make the un-wealthy somehow prosperous.\u00a0 It does not make economic sense.<\/p>\n

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Such then prompts me to investigate the President\u2019s motives.\u00a0 I do not know what his motives are.\u00a0 I will say that again:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know \u2014 we<\/i> don\u2019t know \u2014 none of us<\/i> truly know \u2014 what the President\u2019s motives are.\u00a0 But I do know that with Obamacare escalating in unpopularity, there is motive to remove the national focus off of that subject.\u00a0 Let\u2019s get the focus onto something more popular… something the people can support… income equality… yes… it\u2019s unfair!\u00a0 Let\u2019s distribute wealth more fairly!<\/i><\/p>\n

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Great emotional argument, my friends.\u00a0 The wiser challenge is whether it makes sense.<\/p>\n

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Respectfully,<\/p>\n

AR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s be frank.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve said from the onset of the Intramuralist, no one need to agree with me.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 I\u2019m comfortable enough in my own skin to omit my opinions… and to admit that some of them may be wrong.\u00a0 I also may not know which ones are wrong.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 Some of yours … <\/p>\n

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