Mitt, Mika, $10,000.00 Bets, and Income Inequality

It seems that every member of the chattering political class tries to crown Mittens Romney as the nominee of the GOP without one vote taken or tallied. It is inevitable, we are told. Not so fast.

The chatterers tell us this because they are comfortable with Mitt. He is one of them, an elite multi-millionaire. He vacations in Hawaii, the Hamptons, and Martha's Vineyard. He owns mansions and vacation homes. He can stay in the Presidential suite of any hotel in America. He can afford to offer to bet $10,000.00 without blinking. He is one of them. It doesn't really matter that he is rich; we should all try to become rich since the opportunity to do so is at the heart of what makes America.

Mika Brzezinski, daughter of Zbigniew (Jimmy Carter's national security adviser) and an MSNBC early-morning anchor with Joe Scarborough, talks about income inequality as the dominant theme of the 2012 election cycle. She has a sweet contract with MSNBC, I'm guessing, and she could equal my income and hers with a gift to me of about a million bucks or so. I don't know how much she is paid, but I would bet a dollar, not ten thousand, that she makes 7, 8, or 9 figures in U. S. dollars. She won't give me anything, and she won't write that check to the Treasury to equalize her income with the poverty level income for a family of four, or about four bets by Mitt. I don't expect her to, but she should realize that income equality could start with her if she was sincere about equaling it out for everyone.

The elite political class sees itself as deserving of our unquestioning and absolute support. Romney's offer of a bet with no more sincerity than Obama's every word is the perfect example of how out-of-touch the elites have become as it regards the country's well-being. They don't understand us, and they don't want to understand because they believe they have every answer to save us from ourselves.

I am sick of them. I have no desire for more of their brand of Change. It is time to return to our Founders' vision for America, and that vision does not include funding the nanny state as the final arbiter of all that is fair.

Don't tread on me! Give me my Liberty, get out of my way, and allow me to make choices for myself. Remove Americans from the food stamps roll, and allow them to return to the workplace by removing all business taxes. Make all income tax-free for everyone for a year, in 2012, instead of this piddling 3% one-year temporary gimmick.

Let us keep what we earn. All of us deserve better than we are getting from the elite and permanent political class. They don't get it, and my fear is they never will.