Your Mother Should Know.

Last post I asked about how business and society has changed and the difference in attitude in the employer and employee.

Not that I want to belabor the topic but I firmly believe that the Nanny State has done more to wreck the basic work ethic in this Country than any other single factor or cause.  Think about it, prior to unemployment insurance, welfare and free medical care, (food stamps and other “helpful” government give-a-ways), you worked or live off of family.  You might beg on the street and possibly get by.  But charity was your best bet.  Christian Charity soup kitchens and flop houses saved many a life.

Somewhere along the line the Government figured that they could do a better job by creating a forced charity, which of course is not charity at all but legalized theft.  Robin Hood thinking, stealing from those who have to give to those who do not.  “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” Thomas Jefferson

But we created a “support system”, what liberals like to call a safety net, that they demand we support and contribute to.  All well and good except that once you have a net and you know that you can’t hit rock bottom, where is the motivation to stick with the job?  Where is the concern that poor performance will cause you and your family damage that you can’t control?

Truth be told, I believe that having such entitlements removes the concern for failure.  My Grandfather always allowed me to fail.  And every failure came with a price I had to pay.  Now he never let me get in over my head, but I was never sure what he considered “over my head”.  So I conducted my life knowing that if I failed, it was on my tail.

There is certainly a bit of naivete if one believes that such programs are “just a hand up” not a hand out.  Generations of people are doing today what is supposed to have been changed.  Many are living off the dole.  Now there is a difference between not working and not being able to work, that is for certain.  However there are legal means and programs, (I mostly also disagree with), that are charged with such matters.

These types of safety nets just relieve children of their responsibility of caring for those who raised them.  These programs just allow kids to kick the parents to the curb because we have come to accept that the government will help take care of them.

Now we are being told that government will also take care of us with “free” health care.   Of course unlike, (or maybe not so unlike hillarycare), we will mostly use the private sector to control and administrator.  So ask yourself this, (after admitting of course that the Government can’t run anything efficiently), if these HMO’s weren’t going to make money, would they be in the business of health care?  Of course not, so what’s going to stop them from cutting cost, by limiting allowed care, (which is what they do now), in order to maximize profits?

I am all about private companies, free enterprise and all that, just not at the expense of individuals health.  We already know how this works in Socialist Countries.  We know that because when the rich and powerful get deadly ill, they come here to get treatment, not trusting their own “free” system.

Think about that next time someone tells you about “free health care”.

Last comment, The Fair Tax.  I went to fairtax.org this morning and found that this system would cost me even more in taxes than the present system does.  I wondered why so I looked a bit closer.  It was easy to find.  The so-called “Fair Tax” rate is 23%.  Who in their right mind thinks that 23% is fair to anyone?  In my mind 23% is a spending fine.  Much like the sin fine on tobacco and alcohol.

Want me to get on board for the Fair Tax?  Make it fair.  Lower the rate to 10 – 15%, make it a Constitutional Amendment so it is hard to change, and I’m there.

chas

“Rebellion to Tyranny is Obedience to God”