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Why should a strong-arm government expect you to sacrifice your efforts, earnings and values to the non-producers and tricksters? Enslavement to the social good is not the solution to America’s problems. We must each step-up to the plate, produce for the pay we receive, and quit believing the world owes us. Begin to ask what we can do to help a neighbor, co-worker, or a child. Quit asking for help instead find solutions. Using our natural state of being, which is to solve problems, will make this country stronger. Passage of yet another bill will not solve our problem. We must quit asking what the government can do for us.
What we do with our minds makes life better. Are we producing values with our minds? Are we continuously creating more man-made valuable products with our minds? Or do we want nature or government to automatically provide for us? We haven’t lived in nature for centuries and we have learned to produce and provide for our needs.
Since man no longer lives in nature we are no longer saddled with environmental conditions that dictate what we do. We can live inside and enjoy the great man-made home already created for us. We can also choose to create additional values for the benefit of self and others. We don’t need government to provide our needs, we are capable. Again, how are we using our minds?
The highest power in existence is the rational consciousness of individual beings. Do we accept and respect that, by thinking for ourselves, producing values for ourselves, and, by living life to the fullest and allowing others to do the same?
The highest value is the conscious, productive individual being, one who uses their mind and actions to add to the material, intellectual, physical, psychological, or aesthetic well-being of others. It is critical that we add more than we take because society cannot exist without this form of life. Influencing nature and creatively altering events to the benefit of all is creating value. What are we doing to create values like our forefathers did for us with our constitution? Have you read the constitution lately?
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Jill I am not sure whether to feel guilty or not. Today my sole income is Social Security. My life’s profession till I was 54 was homemaker, wife and mother of five. I had to use my former husband’s income to get Social Security income. He was a 21-year Military Man and during those years I worked almost about 12 to 15 hours a day seven days a week–I didn’t have a salaried income.
Since age 56 to my current age–almost 78 I have created values, but as of yet no income from it–it’s getting close now for the NUMEROLOGICAL SCIENCE of 13 UPPERCRUST OF ESSENTIAL ANALYSES to be available for anyone. In the meantime, I am 100% dependent upon the USA Government for my very sustenance of existence.
I honestly feel I do not deserve to feel guilty about the income I receive. It will change eventually.
How many stupid laws do we need to provide “entitlements” and waste tax dollars? I have seen all too many people that make a career out of taking welfare, food stamps, and WIC–and dogging any and all efforts to get a value-producing job (let alone a value CREATING one). This is a complete waste of tax dollars–especially when these people make absolutely no effort to find a job.
True, welfare is a good temporary measure for people, who for reasons BEYOND THEIR CONTROL are unable to find paying work. However, this should come with the obligation to find work as soon as it becomes available. It also comes with the need to make it as easy as possible for these people to find (or MAKE) paying work, particularly by removing unnecessary artificial obstacles. There simply is no excuse for a person to make a career out of collecting welfare while dogging finding a job.
This also goes for the recent company bailouts. That was a complete waste of MY tax dollars–to bail out companies that got into trouble because some STUPID leaders of the company made continual bad decisions or because the government forced them to do things that made them need rescue. Either way, the government has just usurped what was once a fine company. And they go on putting out more regulations, which will lead yet other companies to go belly up that were doing well before, and more unemployment and difficulty finding or making work (and more welfare cases in the future that legitimately cannot find work).
In general, I do not have much respect for welfare, food stamps, and WIC. Handouts simply are not the answer–they are ruining our country, causing us to waste huge amounts of tax dollars, and are often creating more of these lazy bums. (I define someone as a “lazy bum” if they make a career out of collecting handouts while making no effort to secure and maintain a job). And, when people legitimately need handouts (especially when they are also working), that is a symptom of a serious problem with the economy, companies, and a system that prevents innovation and value creation.
Either way, the causes of welfare need to be rooted out and prevented from ever coming back if out economy is to ever come back. Real jobs need to be created, and that cannot be done if the government is going to regulate everything we do. Individuals, including those who otherwise would be forced to collect handouts, should be encouraged to create new jobs (it would help themselves, those working under them, and the whole country). Otherwise, we will become a nation of people that sit at home collecting handouts while the big companies keep getting bailouts. Which will undermine the purchasing power of everyone, lead to hyperinflation, and create whopper shortages of everything.