Lou Holtz explains the situation we are in
Sep 3, 2016 14:09:44 #
The Democrats are right, there are two Americas. The America that works and the America that doesn't. The America that contributes and the America that doesn't. It's not the haves and the have nots, it's the dos and the don'ts. Some people do their duty as Americans, obey the law, support themselves, contribute to society and others don't. That's the divide in America.
It's not about income inequality, it's about civic irresponsibility. It's about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective office. It's about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country.
That's not invective, that's truth, and it's about time someone said it. The politics of envy was on proud display a couple weeks ago when President Obama pledged the rest of his term to fighting "income inequality." He noted that some people make more than other people, that some people have higher incomes than others, and he says that's not just. That is the rationale of thievery. The other guy has it, you want it, Obama will take it for you. Vote Democrat. That is the philosophy that produced Detroit.
It is the electoral philosophy that is destroying America . It conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense because it ends up not benefiting the people who support it, but a betrayal.
The Democrats have not empowered their followers, they have enslaved them in a culture of dependence and entitlement, of victim-hood and anger instead of ability and hope. The president's premise “ that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful“ seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices. Because, by and large, income variations in society are a result of different choices leading to different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibly have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure.
Success and failure usually manifest themselves in personal and family income. You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education. You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course; you have them within a marriage and life is apt to take another course. Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take.
My doctor, for example, makes far more than I do. There is significant income inequality between us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome, but, our lives also have had an inequality of effort. While my doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I got a job in a restaurant. He made a choice, I made a choice, and our choices led us to different outcomes. His outcome pays a lot better than mine. Does that mean he cheated and Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth? No, it means we are both free men in a free society where free choices lead to different outcomes.
It is not inequality Barack Obama intends to take away, it is freedom. The freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail. There is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure. The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy. Even if the other guy sat on his rear and did nothing. Even if the other guy made a lifetime's worth of asinine and short sighted decisions.
Barack Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort. The simple Law of the Harvest “ as ye sow, so shall ye reap“ is sometimes applied as, "The harder you work, the more you get."
Obama would turn that upside down. Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society. Entitlement will replace effort as the key to upward mobility in American society if Barack Obama gets his way. He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive to foster equality through mediocrity. He and his party speak of two Americas , and their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other. America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts.
It is a false philosophy to say one man's success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man's victimization.
What Obama offered was not a solution, but a separatism. He fomented division and strife, pitted one set of Americans against another for his own political benefit. That's what socialists offer. Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow. Two Americas , coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln's maxim that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
Lou Holtz
Leo "Lou" Holtz (born January 6, 1937) is a retired American football coach, and active sportscaster, author, and motivational speaker.
It's not about income inequality, it's about civic irresponsibility. It's about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective office. It's about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country.
That's not invective, that's truth, and it's about time someone said it. The politics of envy was on proud display a couple weeks ago when President Obama pledged the rest of his term to fighting "income inequality." He noted that some people make more than other people, that some people have higher incomes than others, and he says that's not just. That is the rationale of thievery. The other guy has it, you want it, Obama will take it for you. Vote Democrat. That is the philosophy that produced Detroit.
It is the electoral philosophy that is destroying America . It conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense because it ends up not benefiting the people who support it, but a betrayal.
The Democrats have not empowered their followers, they have enslaved them in a culture of dependence and entitlement, of victim-hood and anger instead of ability and hope. The president's premise “ that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful“ seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices. Because, by and large, income variations in society are a result of different choices leading to different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibly have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure.
Success and failure usually manifest themselves in personal and family income. You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education. You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course; you have them within a marriage and life is apt to take another course. Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take.
My doctor, for example, makes far more than I do. There is significant income inequality between us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome, but, our lives also have had an inequality of effort. While my doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I got a job in a restaurant. He made a choice, I made a choice, and our choices led us to different outcomes. His outcome pays a lot better than mine. Does that mean he cheated and Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth? No, it means we are both free men in a free society where free choices lead to different outcomes.
It is not inequality Barack Obama intends to take away, it is freedom. The freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail. There is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure. The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy. Even if the other guy sat on his rear and did nothing. Even if the other guy made a lifetime's worth of asinine and short sighted decisions.
Barack Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort. The simple Law of the Harvest “ as ye sow, so shall ye reap“ is sometimes applied as, "The harder you work, the more you get."
Obama would turn that upside down. Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society. Entitlement will replace effort as the key to upward mobility in American society if Barack Obama gets his way. He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive to foster equality through mediocrity. He and his party speak of two Americas , and their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other. America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts.
It is a false philosophy to say one man's success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man's victimization.
What Obama offered was not a solution, but a separatism. He fomented division and strife, pitted one set of Americans against another for his own political benefit. That's what socialists offer. Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow. Two Americas , coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln's maxim that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
Lou Holtz
Leo "Lou" Holtz (born January 6, 1937) is a retired American football coach, and active sportscaster, author, and motivational speaker.
Sep 3, 2016 14:11:30 #
MORE BULLSHIT FROM SOME REGRESSIVE RAG!!!!!!! 
ok, one more time!
ok, one more time!Sep 3, 2016 14:15:54 #
Since when did Lou Holtz become an expert on anything outside of a locker room. Pick better heros.
Sep 3, 2016 14:20:34 #
mjmoore17 wrote:
Since when did Lou Holtz become an expert on anything outside of a locker room. Pick better heros.
Who's the ugly ass POS MF in your avatar? You hero must be that POS Hillary!
Sep 3, 2016 14:22:16 #
green wrote:
MORE BULLSHIT FROM SOME REGRESSIVE RAG!!!!!!! ok, one more time!
ok, one more time!Put some vaseline on your back end, KKKeenan is ready for a second round. May clear up your pimples and your thinking.
Sep 3, 2016 14:23:38 #
Checkmate wrote:
pretty good, 3 posts before a homophobic comment... keep working on it! Put some vaseline on your back end, KKKeenan is ready for a second round. May clear up your pimples and your thinking.
Sep 3, 2016 15:34:10 #
mjmoore17 wrote:
Since when did Lou Holtz become an expert on anything outside of a locker room. Pick better heros.
Lou Holtz is a winner and a leader. That is a proven fact. You could not do much better for a hero than Lou Holtz. Who is your hero, the lying POS hussein obama or the lying hillary?
Sep 3, 2016 15:42:28 #
SBW wrote:
Lou Holtz is a winner and a leader. That is a proven fact. You could not do much better for a hero than Lou Holtz. Who is your hero, the lying POS hussein obama or the lying hillary?
And when did winning on the gridiron become a heroic act? Or endow the winner with the intellectual chops to comment meaningfully on other than football?
Sep 3, 2016 15:42:40 #
mjmoore17 wrote:
Since when did Lou Holtz become an expert on anything outside of a locker room. Pick better heros.
I just saw your location. I should have cut you a bit of slack. Now I understand why you don't admire Lou Holtz. You only hire pedophiles for coaches in your neck of the woods. Right? You like the child molesters for coaches. LOL Let's see PSU = Pedophile State University. Where the favored heros are pedophiles according to "mjmoore17".
Sep 3, 2016 15:44:19 #
GeorgeH wrote:
And when did winning on the gridiron become a heroic act? Or endow the winner with the intellectual chops to comment meaningfully on other than football?
Pay attention shit head. It was YOUR side that brought up the word hero.
Lou Holtz is a proven leader and winner. The very opposite of a deadbeat like you. Go back to your BLM rally.
Sep 3, 2016 15:45:47 #
GeorgeH wrote:
And when did winning on the gridiron become a heroic act? Or endow the winner with the intellectual chops to comment meaningfully on other than football?
What a stupid statement from a proven loser in life. What have you led, what have you won, what have you accomplished? Answer: nothing.
Sep 3, 2016 17:14:59 #
Checkmate wrote:
The Democrats are right, there are two Americas. T... (show quote)
Lou Holtz is not the author of this piece. How many more times will the will the wishful thinkers try this one on? So for the third or fourth time, just as a formality ...
http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2015-01-20/story/fact-check-former-football-coach-didnt-write-about-two-americas#
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/louholtz.asp
Sep 3, 2016 18:48:06 #
Texcaster wrote:
don't bust his bubble...it's all he has left!Lou Holtz is not the author of this piece. How many more times will the will the wishful thinkers try this one on? So for the third or fourth time, just as a formality ...
http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2015-01-20/story/fact-check-former-football-coach-didnt-write-about-two-americas#
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/louholtz.asp
http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2015-01-20/story/fact-check-former-football-coach-didnt-write-about-two-americas#
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/louholtz.asp
Sep 4, 2016 08:30:26 #
The article was very cohesive; well-written. I knew that Lou Holtz is an intelligent guy, but wondered if he had writing ability that good. It turns out Lou did not write the article.
The content of the article does not match its slick, professional writing style. It cries about people who work and those who do not, extolling the average person's lack of individual responsibility, while conveniently overlooking basic facts. Since the time Ronald Reagan took office, the bottom 75% has lost 33% of its per capita share of the GDP. The real story is that the further we are from 1981, the more the average person works, but the less he is paid.
The content of the article does not match its slick, professional writing style. It cries about people who work and those who do not, extolling the average person's lack of individual responsibility, while conveniently overlooking basic facts. Since the time Ronald Reagan took office, the bottom 75% has lost 33% of its per capita share of the GDP. The real story is that the further we are from 1981, the more the average person works, but the less he is paid.
Sep 4, 2016 09:25:26 #
As is usual, SBW and Checkmate are unable or unwilling to defend the content of the post, so they do the only thing they can: slime others. What sorry excuses for humanity. They furnish clear evidence of devolution in action. Back to your underground hell-hole, you dregs!
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