Masked Intentions

More than ever before, our government is requiring the “Haves” to share with the “Have-Nots.” It claims it wants to level “the playing field,” playing field being a euphemism for our nation’s economy. In other words, it’s not done meddling.

However, it seems to be of no apparent concern to the government that some of the Have-Nots are unwilling to live prudently or work for a living. Nor does the government seem particularly concerned that some of the Haves are growing sick and tired of being forced to share with their careless and unmotivated neighbors. Despite these obvious and legitimate concerns, our government is hell-bent on carrying out this ill-advised and controversial program of exchange, which in countries where the politicians are slightly more honest is called socialism.

But whatever you wish to call it, the most frightening element I see in all this is that we are permitting our government to assume extraordinary and excessive power. We are giving it the power to confiscate--repeat, confiscate--wealth and property. Do we really believe that’s a good idea? Of all the creatures on God’s green earth, are politicians the ones we want to hand this kind of power over to?

Think about it. This year the government is confiscating the outrageous bonus of a greedy corporate executive. No one feels sorry for him because he is a greedy corporate executive. But what about next year, when the government is confiscating your paltry annual bonus, a bonus you sorely need to replace the furnace in your home?

Aren’t we savvy enough to the ways of the world to realize that giving the government the power to determine when someone has too much is not in our long-term best interest? Don’t we understand that giving the government this kind of power will one day backfire on us?

This isn’t about sharing wealth. This is about concentrating wealth, concentrating it into the hands of a select few so they may have it all. The politicians are merely using the ruse of helping the poor and punishing the wealthy in order to gain power, the power to completely manipulate the so-called playing field. Once they have gained that power, which is their ultimate goal, be assured that they will waste no time in revamping our economy in such a way that America’s now widely dispersed wealth will be drawn quickly and effortlessly from our pockets and funneled forthwith into theirs, or more precisely into the pockets of those for whom they work.

If we don’t put a stop to this chicanery soon, expect to find yourself among a very large and growing number of Have-Nots. And don’t expect the shrinking number of Haves to share their exorbitant and rapidly accumulating wealth with you, or to be concerned in the least about the sudden and dramatic increase in the elevation at their end of the playing field.

By that time the game will be over and the masks will be taken off, for there no longer will be any need for masks. By that time the masterminds behind this nefarious scheme will have us, the heedless and the stupid, where they want us--in shackles.

For the sake of your survival and your posterity’s, learn to be a little more suspicious, especially of politicians, the most cunning, deceptive and dangerous animals on earth.