Buses To Nowhere

There is a sick perversion going on across the country that is building on the basis that success = evil. Perhaps this is a normal symptom of the economy in general, when so many are hurting and where there are others who have somehow been relatively unaffected by the downturn, or have so much that they can absorb the losses and still live "large".

This sickness may be a normal reaction at some level, but is now being fed and growing, due in large part to the liberals in congress and the head socialist himself who are really promoting this kind of thought through their words and deeds.

This past weekend some of the more highly infectious sickos actually took buses out to several homes of AIG executives to protest in their driveways about bonuses they were paid. These nuts have totally lost sight of the fact that most of this was authorized as "retention" money for employees of the failing AIG. 95% of failing companies use this kind of thing to try and keep the people they need to restore and rebuild. And what wasn't specifically authorized, was done by people running the company who were given millions with no strings attached by our liberal friends (mostly) in Washington. So why protest against someone who took the money, when any of these protesters would have done exactly the same thing had they been offered it? Why not go protest in front of Chris Dodd's mansion? Or Harry Reid's?

I'll tell you what it is. I've written it before. It's the old idea that if I can't have success or wealth, I don't want anyone else to have it either. Never mind whether or not I'm smart enough, or worked hard enough, or otherwise deserve it in any way. It's really sick.

As a faithful Christian, I do understand what the bible says about wealth, and the corruption of it. When it neglects the needy. The "eye of the needle" and all of that. But that's between the wealthy and God. It's not my business, and what the wealthy have is not mine. And all of these "redistribution" fanatics in our current government and their twisted followers need to understand that same thing. He's got it, and you don't....for whatever reason. Pray that he does right with it, but if all you can do is covet and empower others to try and take it from him, than you are no better.

There's are very high probability that no one on any of those buses are going to go on and start a successful small business, or help run a large public corporation someday. And if in the end, we decide to punish and deride those that do that kind of thing, (otherwise known as Capitalists), then lights out America...pure and simple.