I Support Income Inequality and So Should You

Rick Santorum gave a speech in Detroit on February 16^th, 2012 on the topic of economics from a conservative point of view. As usual, the liberal media pulled an out-of-context paragraph and then gave it their own Leftist interpretation:

“I’m not about equality of result when it comes to income inequality. There is income inequality in America. There always has been and, hopefully, and I do say that, there always will be.”

To Liberals who don’t know anything about economics, these comments are like blood to chickens. “As a cannibalistic animal, chickens are provoked by the sight of blood and will peck at each other, eventually killing off much of the flock.”

In 1939, the National Band & Tag Company invented small glasses with red lenses designed to be held on the chicken’s beak with a cotter pin that went through the nostrils. One advertisement for the “rose-colored glasses” read, “Stop Cannibalism with National’s New . . . ANTI-PIX.” If you don’t believe me, watch the 1947 Paramount Newsreel about the rose-colored chicken glasses. For more information see here, here and here.

Like chickens, Liberals can’t help from picking conservatives to death by misrepresenting their views.

If Liberals want income equality, let them go to Cuba. Yes, we do have income inequality in the United States, and it’s a good thing. If we had income equality, we would all be equally poor.

The people with an unequal amount of money use that money to create businesses, invest in start-up companies that need capitalization, and buy things that are initially expensive but by their purchases lower the price for the rest of us in the future. By doing all of this, they create jobs!

In a free society, income equality does not have to be a permanent condition. There is always room for income advancement. There are no dead-end jobs in America only dead-end people. Attempts to remove income disparity by government edict will always fail and will make economic conditions worse for the people who vote for it.

People who are envious of the wealth of others will never advance economically. They will blame their have-not condition on the haves, never considering that at one time the majority of haves were once have-nots. A history of enterprise in America will show that this is true.

Apple Inc. stock just hit the $500 per share mark a few days ago. Throughout the 1980s, the price of Apple stock ranged from $1.65 in 1985 to under $10.00 in 1990. “As of September 24, 2011, the company had 60,400 permanent full-time employees and 2,900 temporary full-time employees worldwide; its worldwide annual sales totaled $65.23 billion, growing to $108.249 billion in 2011.

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne (who sold his share for $800) established Apple on April 1, 1976. It was multi-millionaire Mike Markkula who provided essential business expertise and funding of $250,000 during the incorporation of Apple. Today, Apple is the most valuable company in the United States, beating IBM, Chevron, Wal-Mart, Exxon, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Berkshire-Hathaway, and Google.

Apple’s first computer was hand-built by Wozniak in a garage. Talk about income inequality.

One last point. A chart created by the AFL-CIO shows that the difference between average CEO and average worker pay has been dropping since 2000. It was the Bush tax cuts that made the difference:

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CONSERVATIVE DUDE

The rest of the story is, the politicians then pass laws and legislation to move money from the high side of inequality to the low side of inequality. The same with subsides. The politicians have found more reasons to subsidize than I can count. That is more of taxpayer dollars going out to create more dependancy.

I ask that you examine every politician in your district. If they are not working for you, then you work to get them out of office. we need leaders, not panderer's.
Ed

Here’s a liberal’s dream of equality taken from a military guy’s view: One E-4 (Senior Airman) with four years time in service works in customer service. His work hours are 7:30am-4:30pm, Monday thru Friday. He gets weekends and holidays off. He gets an hour for lunch every day. His office is heated in the winter and air conditioned in the summer. It [obviously] never rains or snows in his office. On a daily basis he is exposed to paper cuts and carpal-tunnel syndrome from the paper filing and computer work. If he screws up, someone’s pay may be messed up for a few weeks, but it will eventually get worked out. He makes $2,267 per month. Another E-4, also with four years time in service, works on the flight line as an aircraft mechanic. His hours are 11:00pm-8:00am Thursday thru Monday on the good days, and up to twelve hours a day during exercises and sortie surges. He doesn’t know what a weekend off is unless he takes leave, and he gets the holidays off that fall on his off days (Tuesday & Wednesday). He is lucky to get 20 minutes to come inside and grab a bite to eat, but more often than not he sits on the airplane and eats his box lunch that was ordered from the flight kitchen. His “office” is a huge patch of concrete that is the exact same temperature as the bone chilling wind in the winter, and is 10-20 degrees hotter than the weather man says. It rains and snows on him, but his trusted rain gear keeps him (somewhat) dry and just above freezing. On a daily basis he is exposed to dangerous jet blast and suction from aircraft engines, hazardous noise levels, dangerous chemicals, flammable jet fuel, dangerous working heights, heavy lifting, and electrical shock hazards from the various jobs he does during his shift. If he screws up, he may die or cause someone else to die. Depending on the aircraft he works on, several hundred lives may be at risk. He makes $2,267 per month. This the way it works in the military in the beginning (entry level). But, they are given the equal OPPORTUNITY to excel at our their job, get promoted, rise in the ranks and thus, make more money than others that choose to do the minimum amount of work and progress at a much slower pace than us. There is no equality of OUTCOMES. They reap what we sow by the effort that they put forth. If you don’t like the pay you are getting, step up and make something better for yourself! It’s not the government’s job to equal the OUTCOME by picking winners and losers or favoring one group over another. That’s not what made America great. Blood, sweat and tears are what this country was founded and built upon.
Walter Bales

Income inequality is a fact of nature, as inevitable as the sun rising or an apple falling. As a collorary, income equality is impossible. Cuba and North Korea are often mistakenly cited as places where income equality exists. Does the average peasent in either place have the same income as Castro or the leaders and military of North Korea? No? Then where is the equality? Nowhere. The elite in all tyrannies which supposedly impose income equality, such as the Soviet Union or Red China, ALWAYS have incomes far above the average. I defy anyone to name one nation that ever existed where absolute income equality was a reality.