Conditioning America for Long Term Socialism

Demonizing record profits is a much used arrow in the liberal quiver. It can be shot at any private entity that generates a profit. As a business owner, if you fail to pay at the level of liberal expectations, your profits were too high. If you failed to provide benefits to your employees that met liberal expectations, but still took home any kind of wage yourself, your profits were too high. Does your company have any money in its bank account, if so, your profits are too high.

As the numbers begin to come in for fiscal year 2014, targets, such as Staples, will begin 2015 with a bullseye on their backs. Chastised for not offering the correct level of benefits and by default stealing from the public as a whole. However, one institution will undoubtedly go unnoticed in the attack on profits. While in the midst of a recession, its leaders take home large sums of money in both wages and peripheral benefits. Even though those it serves see declining wages, loss of benefits and jobs being given to illegal aliens to pad the bottom line.

In first 4 months of the 2015 fiscal year, starting in October 2014, the federal government took in $1.046 trillion. That is up $85 billion over last years first four months. Yet, the American people see little benefits from these record profits. Real unemployment is still at 9%, there is a steady rise in part-time jobs and decline in full time and the availability to health benefits has been reduced or prices driven up substantially. Ironically, the same people in government who will blame Staples for their profits, accusing them of robbing employees, are ready to raise taxes on individuals and employers for the benefit of growing government.

This should not come a surprise to those who accept the liberal desire for a socialist United States. Socialism is a concept not built on shared prosperity, but rather an experience in shared misery. By increasing the governments ability to take in and redistribute wealth, it works to beach all boats, not raise them.

By tweaking employment numbers a facade is dropped over the economy. The American citizen is led to believe that the powerful government is working to help their best interest, even while their own financial status has seen little improvement over the losses of 7 years ago.

Over the long term, it instills an image of lowered expectations. Part-time work is the new norm. Lower wages are not longer ‘lower’, but the new standard for high wages. Higher percentages of unemployment, food stamp use and welfare are actions of a benevolent government, thus should be both praised and supported.

The next step, some already proposed, is to use these lower expectations to increase the blessings a government can bestow on its people. Great kindness in the forms free higher education, mandating shorter work weeks, child care, expanded job creation within the government bureaucracy and government subsidies used to maintain a constant level of support for socialist programs.

Unfortunately, none of these actions will create prosperity for the American people. Just like the accusations of liberals against business profits, that the company is getting rich on the backs of its employees. The government’s record profits will make it rich on the back of the American economy. By lowering expectations today and presenting a false perspective this non-recovery, the American people are being conditioned to accept poorer outcomes. In the end, the leaders, and those business men they chose, will prosper; while the rest of us share mediocrity.

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