BARACK OBAMA AND MY SISTER

I have worked hard my whole life to get where I am today. The harder I work and the more money I make, the more I hear from family and friends how I should share. My sister and her husband sit at the house and do nothing all day. If I send money to my mom they race over there to take it away from her.

When I came up with the business idea everyone laughed and talked about how stupid I was. When I was working 20 hours a day 7 days a week, they said there is more to life than working. But now that I have worked hard (become lucky) they feel I should share with them.

I offered them a job but they became angry about that.
Barack Obama says, “I think a lot of us who have been fortunate are willing to pay a little bit more to make sure that a senior citizen who is struggling to deal with rising property taxes or rising heating bills, that they’ve got the coverage that they need.”

He is promoting my sisters idea that anyone who succeeds did so not because of hard work, but because they were “fortunate.” They were lucky. It’s not about sacrifice. It’s not about work ethic. It’s not about dedication. It’s not about making smart choices. It’s all about being lucky.

There’s a reason for this language. If my sister can convince you that the high achievers in the economy were merely “lucky,” then it is so much easier to argue that I should be supporting her. She does not have money, not because she want work or makes stupid chooses but because she has been unlucky.