If you
see Andy standing along the highway with a “will
work for food” sign, do not believe him as he is a
liar. Andy is my nearly 30-year-old mule, and during
the winter, I feed him a little corn. William, my
two-year-old grandson, loves dumping the grain in
Andy’s feed bunk, so now when Andy spots us in the
yard he comes running across the pasture and William
sprints to the grain barrel. With the crested wheat
grass greening in the pastures, both Andy and
William need to break the dependency cycle, but
rather than graze, Andy stands by the fence and
begs. Such is the sorry state of affairs in America
today and this brings me to my point.
In 1776, our founding fathers held it was a person’s
willingness to risk and work rather than their
bloodlines, which determined their lot in life.
Sadly, this liberty proved to be both fragile and
temporary. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson
introduced our republic to the Sixteenth Amendment;
the progressive income tax. This provided the
framework for wealth redistribution and dependency
soon replaced self-reliance. President Roosevelt’s
Second Bill of Rights in 1944 further advanced the
progressive theory Americans were due the bounty
produced by the sweat of others and suddenly a job,
food, clothing, recreation, housing, medical care
and a good education were rights guaranteed by
government. Politicians began telling voters
everything they lacked was not from an absence of
effort or initiative, but instead was cheated from
them by the rich. Even though great jobs in a
thriving industry free of government subsidy are far
more liberating than social programs, leftists
deceitfully used programs to cultivate dependency.
How else do you explain wind power, choking
regulation of coal generated electricity, moratorium
on off-shore oil drilling, CFL light bulbs and the
Chevy Volt?
As of this second, politicians have gifted us
$15.626 trillion of debt and looking forward, they
have committed future generations to hundreds of
trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities. These
obligations are mathematically impossible to meet by
taxing the rich, because most of the money is in
America’s middle class—a fact which politicians
purposely ignore. This spending insanity will stop
one of two ways.
Option one: Methodically reassembling government to
the limited one defined in our constitution.
Unfortunately, like Andy begging across the fence,
true budget cuts are unacceptable to indoctrinated
recipients. Expect more news like last week’s
protests at Santa Monica College when students
chanted, “No cuts, no fees, education should be
free”. Catchy, but the rhyme ignores the reality
California is running 10 to 25 billion dollar
deficits.
Option two: America collapses into bankruptcy.
This election, our generation will decide whether we
have the self-discipline to choose the controlled
crash of option one or we plunge off the cliff in
option two. There is no option three. There is no
more free stuff, so vote wisely.
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