“Everybody is doing their fair share.”

President Obama in Virginia Friday, “This country doesn’t just succeed when just a few are doing well at the top.  It succeeds when the middle class gets bigger. Our economy doesn’t grow from the top down—it grows from the middle out.  We don’t believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country but we do believe in opportunity.  We believe in a country where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded, and everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same rules.”

Parse this with me

“This country doesn’t just succeed when just a few are doing well at the top.”

(Which is why the Obama 4 years have been a disaster.)

“Our economy doesn’t grow from the top down—it grows from the middle out.”

(Trickle down government doesn’t work.)

“We don’t believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country.”

(Code for “We don’t believe in ‘The Pursuit of Happiness.”)

“we do believe in opportunity.”

(Can’t hurt, sounds good. Heard it at an Amway meeting.)

“We believe in a country where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded.”

(Work and rewards to be determined by Tsars and boards.)

“everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share.”

(Of course we never define “fair shot” or “fair share.” What race are you? Check with your union boss.)

“everybody is playing by the same rules.”

(See Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; diagram below.)