There will ALWAYS be winners and losers. As much as the liberals would love to be able to wish it away, there will always be the underachiever and the achiever. As much as the government would like us to believe their efforts will level the playing field, there is only so much that can be done. Some of us will not make the necessary decisions or exert the necessary effort to make it to where we feel we are entitled to be. There are winners and losers, and that’s the way Mother Nature intended it, period.
Sports are the perfect analogy. If you aren’t good enough, you don’t progress. There are no helping hands or special rules imposed to make the game more ?fair?. To the victor go the spoils, right? This is the way the US became the greatest economy in history. We rewarded success and didn’t reward failure. Then FDR came along and created a parallel workforce, one that didn’t have to produce and didn’t have to achieve, but still was rewarded with lifetime employment and benefits. Of course I’m describing the ever expanding throng of government employees.
So what happened thirty years later, in 1965? LBJ came along and created another devolutionary scheme called welfare. Not only are you rewarded for making reckless decisions like having kids you couldn’t possibly take care of, but the more reckless decisions you make, the more money you reap. Why would a farmer actually plant and tend to a crop when they can be paid for doing nothing? That is exactly what happens now. How many corporations that should have failed, or never even been formed, are still being strung along by corporate welfare or crony capitalism?
As I said earlier, there will always be winners and losers. What we are doing now with regard to welfare (corporate and private), will only delay the inevitable failure of the recipient. But, in addition to the failure of the welfare recipient, we will all be dragged down because our collective society is being so weakened by this cycle the government has created.
There will always be a need for us to help our fellow Americans through troubled times. We managed to take care of each other just fine before the government came in and made being needy a quasi-profession. We took care of each other just fine through our communities, churches and private charities. Let’s get back to that model before it’s too late.