According to the Census Bureau, there are more people on
some sort of means-tested government benefits program then working full-time in
the fourth quarter of 2011 with 108,592,000 people receiving benefits and only 101,716,000
working full-time. (1) As someone currently working full time, and
when tax season rolls around, more than full time, I now understand why I feel
like the hamster on the wheel. I am
running with all my might and seem to be going nowhere.
These Census Bureau figures signify that we have crossed a serious
line where there are now more on the dole then are paying into the system. This trend is entirely unsustainable and must
be reversed but, the longer people in our nation are dependent on some sort of
government assistance, the harder it will be to reverse this dangerous
trend.
Mitt Romney took a lot of heat in the last Presidential
Election when he made his 47% comment.
Here is a transcript of Romney’s comment, “There are 47 percent of the
people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who
are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are
victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who
believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to
you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no
matter what...
“Our message of low taxes doesn’t connect...so my job is
is not to worry about those people. I’ll
never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for
their lives. What I have to do is
convince the five to 10 percent in the center that are independents, that are
thoughtful....” (2) Mitt
Romney did not win the election and so the unsustainable trend of the ever-expanding
dependency class continues to grow. The
question now before us is how do we reverse this dangerous trend of government
dependency?
We are all born as dependent creatures. Without the help of loving parents to feed us
and take care of our basic needs, we would all die soon after our birth. As we progress in our lives, we grow and
become less dependent on our parents.
However, this does not mean we are no longer dependent creatures, it
means that we transfer our dependency to others.
Some people choose the path of dependence on a career. They go to school and attain a marketable
skill and either go to work for someone else or start their own business. This is the career path Mitt Romney chose for
his life and was the perspective he was coming from when he made his
comments. Romney’s opponents believed he
was poking fun at those drawing a government check and condemned him for his remarks. However, as someone who has chosen the career
path of dependence, Mitt Romney was attempting to point out how government
dependence is cheating many of the opportunity to succeed as he had.
However, like any man made program, the career path is not
perfect and not everyone succeeds as Mitt Romney did. This is because success is dependent on the
abilities and ambition of the individual.
Some individuals with high level of drive and ambition are able to
achieve great success while others only achieve limited success or even fail
due to a lack of ambition or drive.
However, those choosing the career path retain greater control of their
success because it is dependent upon how much drive and ambition they put into
their pursuits. For those that have
failed in the career path, they may have to go on a government program
temporarily while they discover a new career path that will lead to their
success.
However, some individuals choose to place their dependency
on some government official or program.
These are the people Mitt Romney was referring to in his comments about
the 47%. These individuals will always
vote for someone promising more government programs to meet their needs with no
consideration for what damage these programs may do to our nation. For example, they are not concerned about
Obamacare raising the debt and causing massive deficits just as long as they
can receive free health care. However,
with the failure to launch of Obamacare, and the sticker shock of finding out
it will cost even more than their current coverage, the 47% may be suffering
from some buyer’s remorse. (3) Such is the plight of those choosing to be
dependent on government officials and programs designed to promote the
politician and not the person suckered into voting for them. Obamacare is not about affordable health care
but about giving government, and politicians more control of our personal lives
through our health care.
The answer to our dependency dilemma is a change of
heart. To achieve this requires
1)
A restoration to the Godly principles this
country was founded upon. In the words
of John Adams one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence we find, “[I]t
is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which
freedom can securely stand. The only
foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.” (4)
2)
Changing our education system from its current
operation as an indoctrination system back into an education system by
restoring control of the classroom back to teachers. Of course for this to work we must rid our
education system of bad teachers by eliminating tenure and abolishing teachers
unions designed to protect the current indoctrination system. We also must eliminate the current trend in
education towards common core standards.
3)
Changing the media by boycotting movies and programs
promoting promiscuity and vilification of the achievers whose ambition and hard
work have built our great nation.
4)
Educating people about how our Constitution was
designed to protect the God given rights of our nation’s citizens and how over
the last 100 years liberal progressives have incrementally torn our
constitution to shreds. We will then
propose how we can peacefully bypass the federal process and add save guards to
the constitution to restore our nation to Constitution law as our founders
envisioned.
As you can see, this will not be easy but I believe the
people I am speaking to are not opposed to a challenge and hard work. Without a change of heart in our nation, I
shudder to think of the kind of nation we will leave for our children and
grandchildren.
Over the next several Wednesdays, we will be looking in
depth at each of these steps toward the changing of the heart of our
nation. Many of us wonder what we can do
to restore our nation. It is my hope
that what we discover over the next few Wednesdays will provide some
answers.
1. Rousselle, Christine. Great: More Americans
on Welfare Than Working Full Time. townhall.com. [Online] Towh Hall,
October 25, 2013. [Cited: October 29, 2013.] http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2013/10/25/great-more-americans-on-welfare-than-working-full-time-n1731984.
2. Sargent, Greg.
Romney: I’ll never convince Obama voters to take responsibility for their
lives. www.washingtonpost.com. [Online] The Washington Post, September
17, 2012. [Cited: October 29, 2013.]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romney-ill-never-convince-obama-voters-to-take-responsibility-for-their-lives/2012/09/17/0c1f0bcc-0104-11e2-b260-32f4a8db9b7e_blog.html.
3. Coca, Onan.
Obamacare Fans Get Sticker Shock. eaglerising.com. [Online] Eagle
Rising, October 9, 2013. [Cited: October 29, 2013.]
http://eaglerising.com/2162/obamacare-fans-get-sticker-shock/.
4. Wall Builder.
Importance of Morality and Religion in Government . www.wallbuilders.com. [Online]
Wall Builders, January 2000. [Cited: October 30, 2013.]
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=63.
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