Mover Mike has an article worth reading, he called it “Our Moral Rot”. I’ve linked to it via the title bar. I had planned to leave a simple comment and instead have gone on at the mouth far longer than would fit in a comment section.
I was at a “social mixer” at a friend’s house warming with several folks who were tied to the teaching profession. One was from India; but had lived here many years and obtained her US citizenship. She was a fraud and a phony; everything I heard from her mouth was a lie. She'd kept her true feelings about America silent while going through the process of obtaining her citizenship because she is an avowed communist. Once she obtained citizenship she has worked to show all of those she works with the advantages of communism and forced wealth redistribution, “that helps so many women and children" as is carried out where she came from in India. Maybe since she is in with the teacher’s organization she will fit right in and they will only wonder about her interesting accent instead of her political leanings.
Rather than destroy the light hearted spirit of the house warming event I bit my tongue. Two weeks later we held a birthday party for our friend and the same communist friend showed up to continue her lecture on the benefits of communism and forced wealth redistribution. I got up from the table without a word and left; the pain in the neck ended up as a pain in the lower back. Maybe I should have pointed out that she was making a substantially better living here, not in India because India has a collapsed economy, maybe I should have explained that if the US continues on the path of economic socialism we are currently engaged in that our economy will also collapse.
We have permitted our government to hold us hostage via wealth redistribution programs; originally designated as welfare or other feel good programs to help those in need, now they are full blown monsters eating away at will. These feel good programs should have been carried out through volunteer agencies such as philanthropic or religious organizations rather than through government agencies and taxation. There is a huge difference between voluntary donations and taxation; those who cannot see that difference should avoid going out in public places, wait for somebody to bring you your meals and continue reading Alice in Wonderland.
The socialists among us have used the argument that only callous cold hearted individuals, in other words “those horrible Republicans”, would with hold from their excess, sit back in the lap of luxury and deprive those poor folks who have little or none; and it worked. We have gone along and paid for programs that were poorly managed with hard earned tax dollars, tax dollars which are forcibly removed from our bank accounts by a government riding a wild horse crazy with power. We have permitted these organizations to multiply and to heap ever increasing taxes upon the dwindling “excess” until a large portion of our society actually believes that the entitlements once handed out to a privileged few are now intended for everyone, to include those who had been paying for those programs. Such ignorance of logic and facts can endure for only a brief moment; until the bill comes due. Rather than admit that welfare programs were never intended to become part of the framework of our government, believing instead that, the greatest country on the face of the earth, that our government is so benevolent and takes care of its own, we have turned loose a monster that will eventually destroy us.
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