Conservative America has a role model problem July 7, 2010 at 1:16 pm
In Conservative America, two poor kids in a small rural town were awarded football scholarships and left home for college. Meanwhile, the rest of the folks competed for the handful of local jobs that provided decent pay. Twenty years later, both men returned to their hometown.
One became very wealthy in the business of large-scale commercial farming; his winning formula was a combination of global trade, government subsidies, and low-cost immigrant labor. The other became a schoolteacher and widely respected advocate for a variety of poverty-related issues such as livable wages, worker’s rights, and public education.
The businessman became the town hero – a shining example of what you can achieve in this free market land of opportunity. Forever the opportunist, he ran for mayor on a pro-business platform and enjoyed wide support.
His counterpart Mr. Socialist, on the other hand, was a liberal elitist paving the way for serfdom to big government - a despicable example of what threatens the dwindling opportunities in Conservative America.
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