Misunderstandings Galore
May 9th 2009 10:37
I saw another blogger put out a post that shows how little people understand the Constitution. He seems to think that feeding people is the duty of the government. Sorry folks, it's not. Nor is it the duty of government to provide medical care, higher education, or even jobs (except in the military and certain support positions).
I realize that when the Constitution was written, we had a much smaller population. But that population understood what their rights and obligations were. They knew they couldn't spend beyond their means. They knew that educating and feeding and clothing their children was their job. They were willing to work hard and dream big and even take risks to improve their position. The great fortunes that were made in the early days of America came about because of people who were willing to risk everything they had to build something for the future. Many of them lost it all (some more than once) before becoming successful. But they didn't give up and look for a welfare state to save them. There was no welfare state.
The Constitution guarantees us the opportunity to succeed, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the right to defend ourselves. There are other rights, of course, but these are the ones in question right now. There was no right to abortion, healthcare, welfare, or bailouts. Those are the inventions of "progressives" and liberal activists that have nothing to do with the Constitution. There was no Fairness Doctrine, either, by the way.
Taxes were small because government was small. There was no IRS to steal our money at ever increasing rates to pay for ever increasing entitlements. There was no Social Security. Companies paid retirement for long term employees so people tended to keep their jobs for many years. Some companies went under, true. But their employees found other jobs in the same fields or similar ones and learned the new skills that were necessary to keep them going.
Poverty wasn't unusual, back in the day, either. Widows, orphans, disabled people and others were not on welfare. They had families, churches and civic organizations to help them. People tended to care for their relatives, friends and neighbors during hard times. In some places, they still do. Charity is a Christian virtue and it was a Christian country.
Now we have people who demand things from the government that they could do for themselves if they tried. We have businesses that are "too big to fail" so we have to dump trillions of dollars into their pockets (and out of ours) to shore them up. We have generations of families who have never known anything but welfare. We pay taxes (which are going up all the time) to pay for things we don't want (like abortion) and are about to have to pay even more for more things we don't want.
I'm not saying that we can change everything, bright and early next Tuesday morning, folks. But we really need to get back to the basics of taking care of ourselves and our families and our communities instead of expecting the tax money from others to do it for us. We need to aim our society back towards the Constitution and the intentions of those who wrote it. It's being dismantled incrementally at every turn. New rights are being invented and our original rights are being taken away at a frightening pace.
I realize that when the Constitution was written, we had a much smaller population. But that population understood what their rights and obligations were. They knew they couldn't spend beyond their means. They knew that educating and feeding and clothing their children was their job. They were willing to work hard and dream big and even take risks to improve their position. The great fortunes that were made in the early days of America came about because of people who were willing to risk everything they had to build something for the future. Many of them lost it all (some more than once) before becoming successful. But they didn't give up and look for a welfare state to save them. There was no welfare state.
The Constitution guarantees us the opportunity to succeed, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the right to defend ourselves. There are other rights, of course, but these are the ones in question right now. There was no right to abortion, healthcare, welfare, or bailouts. Those are the inventions of "progressives" and liberal activists that have nothing to do with the Constitution. There was no Fairness Doctrine, either, by the way.
Taxes were small because government was small. There was no IRS to steal our money at ever increasing rates to pay for ever increasing entitlements. There was no Social Security. Companies paid retirement for long term employees so people tended to keep their jobs for many years. Some companies went under, true. But their employees found other jobs in the same fields or similar ones and learned the new skills that were necessary to keep them going.
Poverty wasn't unusual, back in the day, either. Widows, orphans, disabled people and others were not on welfare. They had families, churches and civic organizations to help them. People tended to care for their relatives, friends and neighbors during hard times. In some places, they still do. Charity is a Christian virtue and it was a Christian country.
Now we have people who demand things from the government that they could do for themselves if they tried. We have businesses that are "too big to fail" so we have to dump trillions of dollars into their pockets (and out of ours) to shore them up. We have generations of families who have never known anything but welfare. We pay taxes (which are going up all the time) to pay for things we don't want (like abortion) and are about to have to pay even more for more things we don't want.
I'm not saying that we can change everything, bright and early next Tuesday morning, folks. But we really need to get back to the basics of taking care of ourselves and our families and our communities instead of expecting the tax money from others to do it for us. We need to aim our society back towards the Constitution and the intentions of those who wrote it. It's being dismantled incrementally at every turn. New rights are being invented and our original rights are being taken away at a frightening pace.
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