Recently, Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper stated
that the EPA should not be blamed for the orange chemical spill they caused
near Durango, Colorado, because they “don’t seek to make a profit”
(profit-making is an evil concept to liberals). This statement was frightening
to hear. Would the good Governor be as
forgiving to a profit-seeking mining company who caused a similar disaster? The fact that a bloated, tax-payer supported,
non-competing government agency would get more favorable treatment for an
environmental disaster they caused than a company that has to compete with
similar companies to remain alive, pay salaries and taxes (and abide by a vast
number of government-imposed regulations) all of which are made possible from
the profits that they are able to make in a capitalist enterprise, while at the
same time this company can be fined and potentially financially destroyed by
the same government agency that Hickenlooper will not place blame on, seems to
be not only devious, but wrong and harmful to our entire society.
Can it be that liberals in government, who are big on
welfare, cell phone giveaways, loan forgiveness and college tuition gifts, working
in coordination with the liberal media, hate profit and love poor people for
the same self-serving reasons? After
all, big government pretends to only be concerned with helping the
down-trodden, but of course they can only help those unfortunates by taking
money from the middleclass, corporations and the wealthy via taxes, fees or any
one of several wealth-redistribution schemes they dream up (such as Obamacare
for example).
The media like to report how noble poor people are and
how evil rich corporations are, even though the companies the liberal reporters
work for are themselves large corporations that must make a profit in order to
pay their employees, and in fact some of the reporters make enough money to be
considered “rich” themselves.
The class-consciousness of liberals and the negative
slant they place on people who work, save, invest and achieve a level of
success and wealth, is destructive to society and teaches our children the
wrong lesson. We currently have a record
number of people on some kind of government assistance, and all the leftists (Hillary
and Sanders come to mind) can think to do is demand higher taxes from the rich
and insist that they pay their “fair share”.
Never would a liberal tell those on welfare to get their butts to work
and earn a living, because if the poor are not kept dependent on government
hand-outs, liberal politicians have no way to wrangle a vote from them in order
to keep the grave train flowing.
Would it perhaps be more helpful to poor people if
they were encouraged to get a job at a profitable company rather than take
handouts from their neighbors via the government’s ability to tax, and could a
company make more money and employ more formerly poor people, thereby lifting
them out of poverty, if government weren’t constantly making such extravagant
demands on them with ever-increasing regulations and taxes?
