In this election cycle, the liberal progressive socialist
left is going to the ideological bank to tout the important issue of
income inequality. We will hear the incessant calls for a $15 minimum
wage, which one has to ask, why not $25? What is so magic about the $15
number?
This reflects just another easy issue talking point that can be
repeated by the masses but never articulated or defended well in a
debate forum.
However, it does beg the question: In these times
of the current conflagration against the global Islamic jihad and other
defined nation-state adversaries, who is it that we value?
I
believe that there are two very important groups of people necessary for
the existence of a society. The first are those who teach, and notice I
said teach, not indoctrinate. There is a very distinct difference. The
second group are the ones who defend -- the guardians who stand upon
freedom’s rampart. And, when one considers the level of compensation for
these two groups, well, it appears they are not exactly the ones who
are valued.
I should know, having been both.
What concerns
me greatly is the fact that here in America, we have our best -- those
guardians -- having to sustain their quality of life on government food
subsistence programs. Now, perhaps there are those of you who truly do
not care about this issue -- hence the titled question of this missive.
How is it that we have devolved to a point in our beloved America, where
the SEIU purple-shirted protesting union members, supported by leftist
organizations and funding, get more attention than the
camouflage-wearing defenders of the republic?
Perhaps
it is because the defenders are too busy doing just that. Well, I would
like to take the time and lend my voice to their plight.