Bloomington, Indiana, is known for many things and now it is known across the land because of a basketball game. No, not the Indiana University basketball team that is Number One in the nation at the time of this article, 12-13-2012. It is Bloomington High School South’s girls basketball team that won 107-2 over their opponent, Indianapolis Arlington.

Shortly after the game was over, recriminations began to fly toward the school’s officials, the coach and the team. Fire him, reprimand him, discipline him, and suspend him were the cries all because of a basketball game played according to the rules of the game. Those yelling the loudest didn’t offer anything constructive and the two facts they forgot are very simple. When a game is played, one team wins and the other loses and the rules do not limit the score in any manner shape nor form.  

I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of the word fair and fairness regarding those that have less, whether in sports or life in general. But this article isn’t about a basketball game as such. According to the whiners the score isn’t fair because one had more than the other and that relates to the mind set of many in our republic and it is relative to what is happening in each state.

Nationally, the people are being brain washed with the idea of fair and fairness. The nut job insists that it isn’t fair that the rich and wealthy do not pay more taxes. His followers insist that it isn’t fair that someone has more than someone else. Still more insist that it isn’t fair to the homosexual crowd that many of us detest the homosexual way of life. Then there are those who claim it isn’t at all fair that wage earners do not want to provide for those who have less. It “ain’t” fair they yell at the top of their voices. Who made them the arbiters of fairness?  They made themselves the arbiters and don’t you forget it.

The question that they can’t answer and very few bother to ask is, “What is fair about those with being forced by government to give to those who think they don’t have enough?” What is enough? How much of one’s earnings should the government take or how much earnings should the worker be allowed to keep? Generally, they cannot answer when asked since they have no idea and actually are brain locked on the mantra of “It ain’t fair.” Those who earn do not prevent anyone else from earning any more than the Bloomington team was responsible for the other team not scoring when they had the opportunity. When opportunity is presented and is not taken, whose fault is it? Liberals will use excuses for the answer and blame everyone but themselves.

A number of those bellowing their venom at the coach and team in Bloomington reveal the psyche of many in our republic. They offer nothing but hate when things do not go to their liking. They want all things to be as they want them and when this writer pointed out to a reporter for the Indianapolis Star Newspaper, Matthew Tully,  a few of the facts of life relative to the basketball game, the best answer he could give was “I feel sad for you” which typifies the liberal mind. When people counter the liberal foolishness, they cannot accept the idea that others have different ideas and won’t swallow their putrid pabulum. I wrote him back and told him that he must be one unhappy man having to feel sad for others when they disagree with him. Not only does opposition make them feel sad for all of us unenlightened ones, it infuriates them to no end. How dare we reject their grand thoughts and edicts? After all, they are self appointed gurus with all the answers and all of us uneducated types must conform to them.

Now back to the basket ball game to finish the article with the nut job’s idea of sharing the riches. Using his dictum, the Bloomington team should have shared some points with the other team so everyone could sing Kumbaya and then they could go home feeling good about themselves. But the question remains. How many points should the Bloomington team have shared with other team? The new mindset is share and make it fair, but It Ain’t Fair to those who work and achieve. 

© 12-13-2012 DEC