One of my interests is cooking and that includes cooking pies. I have blogged on pie making before, but I think it is a subject that needs to be revisited. In this case, the pie is our GNP, our Gross National Product. This is the total of all that we produce. When a farmer grows a bushel of corn, that is part of the GNP. When you go to your job and put the lug nuts on a new car, that is part of the GNP. In our economic system, the value of what you produce is the amount that you get paid or earn. Today, those people in technical jobs earn more than people who drive trucks. That is because the people in technical jobs produce more GNP than does a person who drives a truck. The bottom line is that the quality of life for us all is based on the amount of GNP that we produce. Look around the world and you will notice that those that produce the most GNP per person have the highest quality of life. Are you starting to see the connection between GNP and quality of life? Now, what does this have to do with pies? Well, that is next.
If our objective is to have the highest possible quality of life, then we need to produce the highest GNP possible or produce the biggest pie. What Obama and the liberals are promoting is for people "not" to work and produce their share of the GNP pie. They are proposing that people who do work should "share" their product of their efforts (their pie) with those who "choose" not to work. If you ever heard the story about the "Little Red Hen", you know that this is a very stupid idea. Rather than helping to make a bigger pie, we have Obama and his friends telling their supporters to wait until someone else "makes a pie" and then get to the head of the line for a piece of that pie. Obama is proposing that a person does not have to graduate from high school or not get knocked up out of wedlock in order to get a position at the head of the line for a share of the "pie". As a "Little Red Hen", how many pies do you think that I am going to work to produce if I know that one of Obama's friends is going to get the same size piece as my children? You know the answer to that question. I am going to cook the minimum number and size of pies. I am going to do what ever I can to keep from having to share the product of my labor with those who have chosen not to work.
What are you going to do when the sheriff comes to your house to take your pie and give it to someone who has chosen not to work?
The right way to make the most and biggest pie is for everyone to develop their individual skills thru education and responsible conduct and then to work hard and spend their earnings wisely. When we have a major portion of our population who chose to drop out of school or get knocked up out of wedlock or do drugs or commit other crimes, we can't then expect this country to produce the biggest pie. I think it is much better that you share in the pie to the extent that you helped to produce the pie, not based on the fact that you voted for Obama. Those who voted for Obama and his policy of "fairness" may eat well themselves, but in the end, it will be their children who will starve when there is no more pie.
Look at the facts. Where do we rank in education? Where do we rank in earnings per person? Where do we rank in net worth per person? Where do we rank in life expectancy? Where do we rank in national debit per person? If you are smart enough to be able to look these numbers up, you will not like what you find. We have to start thinking about how to produce a bigger pie!!!
