The Color Purple

In the United States where two parties reign (and I am not so sure that is the best way anymore), they are represented by red and blue states. One party adopting one color and the other party the other color.

With the bickering, politicking, and shenanigans going on in DC over this debt ceiling debate, many of us are thinking, why can’t we just agree or at least compromise? Let’s merge the two colors and have a blissful color purple where everyone is happy?

It can’t happen.

Marco Rubio put it well. He said, “Washington is divided because America is divided on this point.”

I can agree with that. I see two ideologies represented in those two colors and they are very different from one another.

He added to that however, and this is where we part on opinions:

“The debate is between those who believe the government’s job is to promote ‘economic justice,’ and those who believe the government’s job is to promote ‘economic opportunity.’  ‘One is not more moral than the other.’ “

As I see it, economic justice means everyone has the same outcome. (Communism)
Economic opportunity means every one has the same chance. (Free enterprise)

Both cannot be moral as I see it.

To say that no matter how hard someone works, and someone else doesn’t that they deserve the same outcome, is just unfair and wrong. How many of us working extra hard would be happy to have the same outcome (Economic justice) as one who doesn’t work a day? We know these people exist. We know some can’t work, and they should have help, but many of us know able bodied people who refuse to do their part.

It’s not moral to take the wages out of the hard worker and give it to the lazy.

Better said, it’s not moral to take the hard earned wages out of the worker to give it to the fat man in Washington DC so he can get his cut and then give it to the lazy who will keep voting for him.

No color purple of compromise here.