Anarchy in America

The legacy of President Obama will likely be "Anarchy in America". For those who may not understand the word, "anarchy" is when laws are unenforceable, there is not police protection or government structure, and everyone is on their own.

In Ferguson, New York and now Baltimore, we are watching people tear their towns and cities a part while the police look on with orders to "stand down". People are hurt, businesses are burned, a new generation of lawlessness is ushered in.

How did this start? Poverty, neglect of the inner cities, too much free stuff? It is hard to tell if they are the cause or the effect. Are people poor and uneducated because they are neglected or are they neglected because they are poor and illiterate?

We have been grappling with these social issues for decades and none of the "oh, you poor baby" programs inaugurated in by Democratic Progressive Liberals seems to have reduced the size of the city slums nor increased the number of gainfully employed minorities.

But then again we can ask the question, "Why is it that the majority of the devastatingly poor neighborhoods, rife with drugs, crime, and murder, are primarily black? Why don't we also have vast inter-city waste lands inhabited by Latinos, Asians, Filipinos, or Iranians? Why are blacks the poster children for oppression and poverty?"

Does everyone in the world really just hate blacks?

Our black/white President, and his Progressive cronies, have set an example of ignoring the rule of law and doing what they feel is best or the will of the people, whether it is or not. Examples:

Executive orders from the President intentionally written to by-pass Congress.
Laws on the books that the Attorney General refuses to enforce.
Open invitations from the President for non-citizens to illegally enter this great Country.
Then giving them food, shelter and education denied many life-long citizens.
Complicite in ordering the police to stand-down while gangs destroy property and threaten lives.

President Obama is teaching the black youth of this country that they will not be held accountable for any laws they break. Even those arrested in the Baltimore Riots are being released because the 48 hour holding period has expired.

Instead of listening to Obama's horrible example, kids should be listening to Toya Graham, the mother who was filmed smacking her 16 year old son when she caught him throwing rocks as the police. 

There are many reasons why not all parents can be there every minute to teach their children, but we can have neighborhood mentors, as well as professional and political examples of integrity, hard-work, and service. 

The good people of this country need to say this is enough, we are fed up with the greedy, economically ignorant socialites and politicians setting the example for our children. 

We need to shine. 
We need to set the example. 
We need to be honest. 
We need to work hard. 
We need to require our children to follow our example.

Stand up, be an example for good. 

There are absolute truths that absolutely bring happiness when followed and absolutely bring sorrow when ignored.

Photo courtesy of:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/29/we-shouldnt-condone-the-baltimore-riots-but-lets-stop-calling-them-senseless/

Income Gender Inequity; Discrimination or Deception?

Victimization is on the rise. Calls of discrimination, racism, inequity, and persecution ring through the halls of Congress and reverberate across the country. Anyone who is misrepresented, opposed, or accused, now cheerfully claims that hate-spewing bigots are innocently attacking and maligning them. What a twisted day we live in.

While this problem is rampant in nearly every walk of life, I will only address one issue today, Income Gender Inequality.

Thomas Sowell published an interesting article in GOPUSA on this topic entitled, "Statistical Fraud". 

He sites the oft quoted statistic that women only receive 77% of the pay men receive for the same job. The point he makes is that the figure is skewed and unreliable because there are too many variables that have to be factored in to make the statistic reliable.

"It would certainly be discrimination if women were doing the same work as men, for the same number of hours, with the same amount of training and experience, as well as other things being the same, But study after study, over the past several decades, has shown repeatedly that those things are not the same. . ."

"Even where relevant statistics are available, careful judgment is required to pick samples of women and men who are truly comparable."

I am not so blind as to not admit that there are many instances where bigoted, chauvinistic males exert discriminatory control, pay less, denigrate and heap other forms of abuse over their women employees.  This behavior is not discrimination, but greed, contempt or sadism. There are also other examples where greedy, contemptuous, sadistic women exert the same type of control over males in the market place.

Mr Sowell expounds how difficult comparisons are to make and how the realities of life, along with our life choices, affect our incomes and career status much more than discrimination.

"For example, some women are mothers and some men are fathers. But does the fact that they are both parents make them comparable in the labor market? Actually the biggest disparity in incomes is between fathers and mothers. Nor is there anything mysterious about this, when you stop and think about it."

"How surprising is it that women with children do not earn as much as women who do not have children? If you don't think children take up a mother's time, you just haven't raised any children."

"How surprising is it that men with children earn more than men without children, just the opposite of the situation with women? Is it surprising that a man who has more mouths to feed is more likely to work longer hours? Or take on harder or more dangerous jobs, in order to earn more money?"

"More than 90 percent of the people who are killed on the job are men. There is no point pretending that there are no differences between what women do and what men do in the workplace, or that these differences don't affect income."

The real kicker is in his concluding paragraph, (remember, follow the money).

"If the 77 percent statistic was for real, employers would be paying 30 percent more than they had to, every time they hired a man to do a job that a woman could do just as well. Would employers be such fools with their own money? If you think employers don't care about paying 30 percent more than they have to, just go ask your boss for a 30 percent raise!"

So, again, as with Obamacare, Immigration, or Fast and Furious, etc., the President and his Party are trying to use manipulated statistics, lathered with disingenuous outrage, to fool the American People into accepting victimization and teach them to rely on the Federal Government to fix a national problem that doesn't exist.

Image from http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/03/31/payday-a-comparison-of-three-popular-payroll-systems/