Using the politics of Envy

Using the politics of Envy

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/13/keene-committed-to-shattering-the-american-dream/?page=2

"If the American dream is in trouble, it is because of the policies advanced by those who now argue that it is no longer valid.
Lengthy unemployment benefits that actually encourage people to drop out of the workforce and minimum-wage laws that make it more difficult for the young and poor to reach for the first step on the ladder of success are, like the rhetoric of progressive populists, attacks on the American dream.
To counter the politics of envy, Republicans must urge breaking down the barriers blocking upward mobility by encouraging policies that free the initiative and optimism of a people unique in world history. To do less would amount to the acceptance of a fundamental change in what this nation represents."

Envy is both un American and un Christian. But if people are to be envious, why not be envious of the princes of the governing class? The Washington, D.C. Is thriving, with low un employment and high wages. Why should this be so? Is it fair? In this day of the internet, why not transfer the congressional and executive offices to the higher unemployment areas or the area being represented. The rents are lower, the salaries will be initially lower.

And the lobbyists will need to move also, or rely on teleconferencing.

And in those distributed congressional hearings, archiving the arguments can be automatic. The people represented can participate real time. It should be required that all proposed legislation be available to the people, and any comment effecting legislation should be recorded though not necessarily immediately public. The lobbyists now helping to prepare legislation, should be replaced by a group of the willing. No legislation should go un examined, much less unread.

And we need not bring out the chopping blocks, the displaced princes may do the deed themselves when they realize they are to be treated as regular folks.


Dave Farnsworth