Obama's America riots over shoes

  It's Obama's America.
  Orlando's Florida Mall suffered the dreaded Shoe Brawl, an event that occurs on a regular basis among males around this great country.
  Unlike a Tea Party event where peaceful gathering yields an area cleaner and safer than it was before the event, the group that gathered to buy $220 shoes became violent.
  From WFTV.com: 

  This event was so violent that police were in full riot gear, wielding batons and weapons to bat them off. The shoes haven't yet been sold in fear of violence.

  If I were a pessimist, I might be tempted to propose that we are suffering from societal breakdown, a sort of anomie that pulls at the cultural fabric that usually binds us together and allows people to rationalize lawless behavior.
  As a realist, I might be tempted to propose that the leader in chief who constantly and forcefully iterates divisive rhetoric designed to separate people by color, by income, and by political beliefs might be responsible for not only the Occupy movement, but brawls such as this.
  But these brawls over material objects, unnecessary for survival, occur periodically, even before our esteemed POTUS took office.
  What a great learning moment this could be, just as the Cambridge police summit could have been a great learning moment, if we had a POTUS who were fair and unprejudiced enough to do the right thing rather than pose, posture and prance.
  But it is apparently not to be.
  No, instead the POTUS and FLOTUS are flying around the country at a taxpayer cost of $180,000 an hour to fly Air Force One. 
  Since POTUS is flying to Florida today, the cost for his 3 fundraisers down there is estimated at $674,000. 
  FLOTUS yesterday admonished her guests, who were present at her fundraiser at a price of $100 to $30,000, that if even one family is struggling, she wants to change our country to make that family, well, richer.
  Perhaps the Obamas are unaware of the biblical principle that the poor will always be with us; that does not mean we do not help them. 
  But money does not indicate wealth, in a sense, considering that the poor in America have air conditioning, flat screen tvs and cable tv and an Xbox.
  We might wonder if being poor is something other than the way the Obamas define it.
  And why, while we pity the poor and pour more money into ever more programs, does the Bible say that the poor in spirit will inherit the kingdom of heaven? 
  Poor in spirit is indicative of humility, of those not possessed of arrogance, self pity and self absorption.

Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?

  Does that sound like poor the way our government defines it?
  While poor the way our government defines is about money, what's missing in this country is the lack of humility, of character and principle that values heaven more than earth, spirituality more than material goods.
  So what were those folks fighting to buy for $220 at midnight last night? What did they value so much that they were willing to beat up other people, break the law and riot?
  This.
  Shoes with stars.

   If only those rioters could see beyond the stars, they might learn to value something other than plastic shoes.