Johnny's Dilemma

Johnny was a pretty good kid. He usually did what he was told and his parents knew he could be trusted. They let him carry his own wallet with his allowance and lunch money because they knew he would not spend it on frivolous things. At twelve years old, Johnny was just beginning to reason things out for himself. He began to get resourceful and save just a little bit of his allowance for unforeseen needs and wants. Maybe he would soon be able to buy one of the little model airplanes that his best friend builds and sells to the other neighborhood kids. Although his holdings were meager, it was his money. He would pull weeds in his mom’s garden, vacuum the living room and stairs and gather the trash and take it to the curb each week. Johnny did as much as he had time for to continue to earn, save and spend his money according to his needs.

Then one day, while out on the playground, several boys were comparing their billfolds. Johnny was especially proud of his because he made it himself. It was real leather with tight nylon stitching and an embossed likeness of The Lone Ranger on the side. Just as he was holding it out for all to see, the playground bully snatched at his wallet and it dropped to the ground. Several dollars fell out and began to blow lazily around the children. The bully knocked Johnny out of the way and grabbed all the money he could get his hands on. “What are you doing with all this money?” he blurted. “That’s my money! Johnny shouted, please give it back.” “Why do you have more money than the rest of us?” the bully complained. Johnny said he earned it and saved it in case he needed it later. So the bully went on to explain that it was not fair that Johnny had so much money and that there were other kids that did not have that much money and that he, the bully, was going to take it and redistribute Johnny’s money to the rest of the kids. Of course, bully’s being what they are, he took the money all right, but he kept most of it for himself and played more golf and went on expensive vacations and continued to extort money from . . . .oops. I got carried away with my metaphor.

I realize I’m being obvious in this example but that is my intent. It is SO obvious what the bully, Barack Obama, is doing in his redistribution nonsense. He is in his fifth year of “redistributing” wealth to the poor and less fortunate. So . . .are they better off with rich people’s money? I don’t think so. Well then, where are all those extra dollars confiscated from America’s earners, savers and purchasers of goods and services? The vast majority of those dollars are resting in the coffers of the Federal Government. How else could he afford to amass the largest growth spurt of the U.S. Government in history? When a man’s dog-keeper is making $100,000 a year, paid through confiscated money of hard-working Americans, it just might be time for the country’s collective light bulb to go on and we all say WTF?!

I think this is where I’m supposed to offer an answer to the problem. The answer passed us by last November. There are still far too many people out there that think Obama is being truthful and that Socialism is a much better way to run a country. The fact is, Obama is lying to them and they are lying to themselves and with Obamacare about to slam this already teetering economy in the shins, I’m feeling that the Kool-Aid has already been swallowed. All we can do is wait for the effects of this poisonous scourge to take hold.

A stronger Congress would have helped. But we will never get that again without term limits. A Supreme Court that makes rulings backing up the Constitution, rather than their political leanings, would be a refreshing change of pace. And certainly a President that simply upholds his Oath of Office would suffice, for now. Our system of “Checks and Balances” can never work when all three branches are completely off-balance.

And so it goes . . . Bloggers continue to blog, talking heads continue to talk and Washington continues to take us down a road we have never traveled before.

Maybe we should ask ourselves, “What would Johnny do?” Would he continue to let the bully confiscate his earnings as the school year winds on? Would he just quit helping his mom with the chores? I doubt it. Remember, he’s pretty resourceful. My bet is he’d go directly to the problem; the bully. He would expose him for the fraud that he is. He would help other kids to learn to be resourceful too. Soon everyone would realize that the bully was a fraud. They would ignore his lies and his boasting. The bully would have little effect when he would lie about where the money was going, or take expensive vacations or keep kids from visiting the White House.

Well damn . . . there I go again.