Posted by
AuVox on Friday, August 29, 2008 8:48:13 PM
My friend Tom sent me the following today:
"I caught only highlights of the Oh! Bama! speech last night, but one line left me agape: He actually said that "Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, even if you don't have boots" is a "failed Republican idea".
What an utterly breathtaking, monstrously disrespectful statement to make on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech... the son of dirt-poor sharecropper.
I wonder how many Government Programs Martin Luther King's parents tapped into, to ensure their son never had to "pull himself up by his bootstraps"?
I'm sure the Reverend King would never have turned out so well, were it not for the myriad of Government programs that were in place... in the depression... in the deep South... to help poor, black children rise above their circumstances.
How did Harriet Tubman carve a place in history without a half-dozen state and Federal programs to prop her up?
How many Government Grants did George Washington Carver get in his career?
Disgusting, anti-American, revisionist bile"
And my response:
<<Disgusting, anti-American, revisionist bile.>>
But so typical of the Left: "You can't make it, you won't make it, stop trying, you'll never be rich, you can barely survive, the man is holding you down, you're a failure, your whole family is a failure....the ONLY way you'll survive is to let US take care of you..."
Does it ever occur to them that America only became great because the only people that came here were people that wanted to ESCAPE from that kind of attitude? And were courageous enough to want to do something to better themselves and their lives?
How many thousands of sucess stories of immigrants begin, "I came to America with nothing but the clothes on my back and (pick any tiny amount of change) in my pocket..."?
What the radicals on that side don't realize is that we're not trying to "protect what we have"; we're trying to protect the system that GOT us here, and make it available for everyone else.
The Left doesn't want anybody to be rich. The Right wants everybody to be rich.