Posted on 09/05/2019 4:26:51 PM PDT by Liberty7732
Here’s the deal, if you are looking to this president, or you were looking to the past president, or you are looking to a future president to make your life better you’re on a fool’s errand. It was the furthest thing from the minds of the Founders and Framers that any individual should have such power and sway.
If you are looking to Congress — this Congress or a past Congress or a future Congress — to make your life better you’re on a fool’s errand. It was maybe the second furthest thing from the minds of the Founders and Framers that any part of the federal government could so greatly impact your life.
There is very little government can do to make your life better. There are quite a few things government can do to make your life worse. (See: All of history.) Most of your problems in life are going to be up to you to solve, to improve or at least to deal with.
For instance, if you want to make more money you’re going to either have to work harder and/or longer, or get training or education to get a better paying job. And if you keep making the same decisions you’ve made all along, and you’re 35 and stuck working at Walmart at minimum wage, there’s nothing the government can or should do for you. You need to change your choices to change your future. If the government steps in to improve your future for you, it inevitably begins a cascade of events that makes many lives worse, including yours eventually.
When governments try to solve poverty by giving poor people a little more money each month, they actually end up keeping them subsistent on government largesse and locked in a hopeless cycle. This has been demonstrated for 50 years now. And the government forcibly takes other people’s money to do it; lose-lose.
The best overall situation is when we can all act freely; free people exchanging goods and services for money freely in markets that are both free and competitive. That simple, relational structure has lifted, literally, billions out of poverty in the past 40 years. Government’s primary role was to stay out of the way, with a small role in making sure there were no monopolies and there were courts to settle contractual disputes.
This is well-documented through our history, but it is not well-known among our population. Schools, universities and the media are the primary culprits in purveying this ignorance. There may be a role for a temporary safety net, but because politicians are politicians it always grows, such as what we have now with enormous entitlements and transfer payments.
But promising more giveaways often garners votes. Some would say buys votes.
So naturally, we have a lot of politicians saying that they can, and will, make things more fair for you, make things better for you and give you this, that and everything you want. Just vote for them. Well not to burst your bubble but there’s nothing they can give you except that they take it from someone else, through taxes now or taxes later to pay off deficit spending now. And eventually they’ll be taking it from you, too, unless you stay at the bottom in poverty, in which case the government will in due time run out of other peoples’ money and then you are lost, too. More lose-lose.
As Margaret Thatcher said: “The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
The better way, the only proven way, is the collective intelligence of hundreds of millions of Americans, and even billions of people around the world. This is almost infinitely greater than any group of central-planning politicians. (See Russia’s five-year plans, East Germany’s junk new cars, Maoist China’s everything, Venezuela’s oil.)
So when you hear all these politicians promising a plan for this and a plan for that, trillions here and trillions there, remember that the Great Society government plan to end poverty starting in the late 1960s under President Lyndon Johnson resulted in the transfer of $22 trillion from working Americans to poor Americans. It was not charity. It was government force, benefitting politicians along the way, but no one else. The result was that as of today, there is virtually no change in the poverty rate. More welfare programs will have the same net effect until all of the money is gone.
No politician is going to improve your life. That is going to be up to you and your choices. The American dream does not come from government; it relies on a constrained government. It then comes via each American exercising their individual God-given natural rights in liberty.
Bingo! Can they make the economy worse?
My economic situation got better no matter who was in the White House or who controlled congress. It was up to me to take care of business. I just think the Republicans had my back more than the rats.
No I voted for this president to stop Hillary.
Can you imagine how terminally screwed up this country would have been if she became president?
My wife and I actually had contingency plans to move abroad if she won.
Where would you have gone?
Pursuit of Happiness vs. Receipt of Happiness.
South Korea. Of course that was before Moon Jae-in took over. He’s the Korean version of a liberal Democrat so things are slumping for Korea now. Most people in Korea love Trump, though.
Americans as a whole and politics in general has ruined what the Founders gave us. This was predicted when the country was founded.
I can see voting for Trump because he’s not Hillary, but I can’t see vesting him with the power to save the Republic, as opposed to going out into the community and doing the work of helping a free society survive.
They’re all just politicians, subject to the vices the Founders warned us about.
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Well, South Korea is a place I’d go, too - if I had no other choice.
But I have a problem with anyone who would desert the USA in its hour of need.
We need all the right-minded people we can get, right here, to keep fighting the good fight - no matter what it costs.
I want them not to make it worse.
The majority of humans are slaves, looking for a Lord to hand them their daily bread and stripes. We can wish it were otherwise, but Trump didn't win because a majority of the public loves liberty.
After 8 years of Obama misery, we had had enough, I couldn’t see living through more of that under Hillary. I think in particular she would have targeted Christians (which is still the case if any Democrat gets elected.)
You doubt - or misunderstand - the power that Christians and Christianity still have in this Nation.
Just STAND.
“....which is still the case if any Democrat gets elected....”
They are no longer traditional “democrats”. The mask has been more than lifted...POTUS has torn it completely off. What’s underneath is vile, devastating and evil. Without a doubt, they’re hard-core, hell-bent communists looking to ruin this country, as we now know it, anyway they can. Once they have the populace disarmed, they will force BS beyond our wildest imagination down our throats....and it will NOT be bloodless. History will once again repeat itself.
I never think of “politician” and “better my life” in the same thought, ever.
I do think about “politician” and “how are they trying to fuch up, or confiscate stuff from”, my life, always.
To a point. An President that can reverence the globalism that is killing the working class can make life a lot better.
This is crap. If a President would enforce the laws on the books life WOULD get a lot better. It is not unreasonable to think so.
Maybe not, but they sure can make it worse !
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