As your children receive their pink slips and are unable to get a job, will they turn with admiration and pleasure to see others in favored classes, enjoying job security? Will they smile as they see the average government slug shuffling off to their job to accomplish nothing much in a redundant slot created when money was plentiful, but not eliminated now that it is in short supply? The government lives as if there is no tomorrow.
As Patrick Henry once asked his countrymen, “Why stand you idle?”
Folks, the rules have changed. What drove you and me to succeed in school was the potential wealth from good grades, hard work, and best behavior. We outdid ourselves and began to brag about it. The have-nots who live among us, the unproductive, heard us bragging. They envied us, became jealous, and accused us of unfair success as a result of simple luck. But it was not good luck! It was hard work.
And lazy, dishonest politicians saw an opportunity.
Together they formed a movement. They plotted ways to steal chunks of our kill, even though not a single one of these do-nothings offered a moment of their time to help us catch our dinner. Their only agenda was, and always seems to be, how to take from you what they cannot figure out how to earn for themselves.
This is not a movement for social justice. It more closely resembles a cabal of bank robbers. It is basic human greed masquerading as victimization caused by bad luck, or inaccessibility to opportunity, or victims of mean spirited intentions. They impugn our hard work and our character by alleging negative motivations, while at the same time they piously grant themselves immunity from responsibility.
The facts are, as in the case of clean air and clean water, we also cleaned up our act in our institutions and places of employment long ago. Apparently it's not enough. It will never be enough.
There is no perfect, yet imperfection is held over our heads as “evidence” while our liberties hang in the balance. The productive ones support the ever increasing numbers of the willfully unproductive who have ever increasing exotic “needs.” Too many politicians and government bureaucrats live high on the hog – expensive human collateral damage from an out of control political agenda. And the damage is on us.
Our liberty is under assault as an endless number of self-righteous scolds guilt trip us into higher taxes and fewer freedoms. They say it is for the good of others, while our children’s and grandchildren's futures fade. They say majority mob-ism is perfectly legitimate. After all, it’s not illegal, is it?
I say the Founders did not intend for future citizens to be able to unravel a country as easily as a mischievous child pulls the loose yarn hanging from a sweater, but apparently, it is that easy.