Chicken feed.

Chicken feed.

No one cares about Obama’s ‘income inequality’ nonsense

I told you yesterday that income inequality is simply one of the new buzzwords President Obama keeps using to keep the media chasing everything except ObamaCare. He’s been in the news about pot smoking and saying Americans should not have to wait more than half-an-hour to vote .  . . where did that come from? It’s another one of those distractions to have the media talking about everything except ObamaCare.



But the president, according to a new Fox News poll, is out of touch when he continues to talk about income inequality. The new Fox News poll finds only a small percentage of Americans thinks the government should do something about the fact that some people make a lot more money than others. Fully 62 percent say they’re OK with disparity in incomes because that’s the way the economy works. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that only 1 percent of American voters think income inequality is a top priority.

This is due in no small part to the fact people understand income inequality is not a zero sum game. They know it’s not true that in order for some people to make more, someone else has to make less. That’s trying to guarantee equal results and not just equal opportunity, and while liberals and many journalists buy that nonsense, people who have actually participated productively in the real economy know that it doesn’t work that way at all. Often one person’s accumulation of wealth is the very thing that opens the door for someone else’s opportunity to do the same.

Why do you think he throws all that out there when polls show no one cares about it? It’s to distract the mainstream media so they can follow these stories in order to talk about everything but ObamaCare and this lousy economy.

When I was young, I used to visit my grandparents and they had free-range chickens. Sometimes they would throw chicken-feed to the chickens in order to lead them in a certain direction. And for some of those chickens, that direction was often into a pot where they would become that night’s dinner.

All this business about income inequality is nothing more than chicken feed Obama is throwing to the media and, he hopes, to the electorate so we will all forget what ObamaCare and his economic policies have done to this nation.