Say goodbye to a larger portion of your income

These are words of our president. Not some communist dictator. Not some socialist prime minister. Our president. Barack Obama. President of the United States of America. Which, allegedly, is a free country:

It's not sustainable to have an economy where the incomes of the top 1 percent has skyrocketed while the typical working household has seen their incomes decline by nearly $2,000. That's just not a sustainable model for long-term prosperity.

You want prosperity, get out and bust your tail like others do. How is it immigrants can come to this country without knowing the language and having no money in their pockets, but they can be successful?

As long as people rely on someone else for a job where they trade hours for dollars, then they are at the mercy of whatever their bosses will pay them. Some choose that route because it is safer. You know how much income to expect each week.

Some choose that route because they don't have the capital or the financial backing to go out on their own. Or, maybe they do not want to take the risk. That's OK. Many people have become successful working for others and providing value to their companies or organizations.

However, people will not prosper by being content with the status quo, by relying on government for their sustenance or by being envious and jealous of the rich. The rich provide jobs. The rich hire people and pay the bulk of their insurance premiums.

Will someone please remind our president these are the United States of America, the greatest place to live on this earth. People can achieve amazing things if they set their minds to it and pursue it.

The American dream was never realized by sitting on the sidelines and whining what others were doing.

Get up and do something. Contribute something. Make something. Sell something. Just don't wait on the government to lift you up out of your condition. It was never designed to do that.