Posted on 12/31/2008 5:18:07 AM PST by gjones77
Our family bought 100 acres and split it three ways just so we have a buffer from whoever moves in near us. I will never willingly sell the peace and quiet I have for no amount of gold.
I parked my last motorcycle in my garage. If I'd parked it in my living room I might still have it.
You have a quiet, small city living in peace. Indroduce a new subculture anathema to the work ethic, the desire for eduction, living by the Golden Rule, etc. Now you have envy and anger by the hard workers in the town who see these able-bodied deadbeats partying all day and night and knowing it is the tax money stolen from the hard workers who are paying for free rent, food stamps, assistance, etc.
Envy, I believe, is heavier on the entitlement side than the side of the Golden Rule. Envy is such a mindless and insidious evil, heartily indulged in our secular society, and feeds the entitlement mentality. Envy is always the bad path.
It is really overdue time that we tell these poor people, you have 10 years to get your act together and that’s it. If you want to be lazy and jobless we will be happy to let you starve.
Two so-simple things would take care of so much -- not everything, just some major stuff. Actually it would be one simple thing's application to two factors. Reduce -- hack to the nub -- Federal government authority and allow each state's government to decide how to regulate commerce and enterprise.
1. Hack employment and wage regulations so that people could employ teenagers and young people freely. Prosperity and productivity would blossom across the board. Real work ethics would be formed. Illegal Mexican immigrants would find themselves with a whole new set of competitors. (Imagine what would happen in conjunction with the Federal government pulling its nose out of entitlement mandates that keep illegals grounded in the U.S. with free education, medicine, food stamps, etc.)
2. Allow people to keep more of their money so they could support the churches and charities that will, as they always have, helped prevent the lazy and jobless from starving and maybe even reforming a few along the way.
Great, common sense points. Of course I agree with all of them. And yes, the envy of the entitlement “poor” toward the middle and upper classes has to be very heavy. They have been brainwashed to believe they are victims. They have no self-respect, even while demanding it. “You dissin’ me?!!!” The liberal mentality has really made modern day slaves out of these people, robbed of hope, ambition and self-worth.
From New Year’s Eve, a Prop 8-related topic.
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