I was thinking the other day (something I can freely do at any time since my retirement) and it suddenly dawned on me why the government is doing what they are doing in the form of cranking up the printing presses by way of the Treasury Department on orders of the Federal Reserve through the Congress:
It is nothing short of job security!
By way of example, let me explain:
Say a drug dealer visits your neighborhood. He or she introduces some of your neighbors to what they are selling in the form of a freebie. Now, as anyone knows, give something away for free long enough and it is soon to be expected. However, if what you have been giving away for free is also addicting, the time comes when you are willing to pay whatever price is demanded to continue getting what was once free.
That is a loose example of what I believe the government has been doing for the last fifty years or so.
Be it in the form of Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, even though tax paying citizens ‘contribute’ a portion of their income during their productive years into these programs in order to have these safety nets in place once they retire, there are untold numbers that also receive these benefits who have not paid one cent into the programs.
In this scenario, what the government has done under the equivalent of sinister means in order to get votes and stay in office by way of promising and then delivering these goodies to multitudes that did not first earn them by paying into them, is nothing short of criminal. Nonetheless, this is pretty much the way it is.
Thus the way in which these government officials guarantee their jobs is the equivalent of a drug dealer peddling freebies to their clients. They give them something for free, get them hooked on the goodies and then guarantee their livelihood by ensuring that those who are hooked will always come back for more, willing to get them at any price. For the politician, this is in the form of gaining their vote to retain their government position for life. And, for the addict, this costs them nothing but their vote, the equivalent of continuing to get their drugs for free!
A very good price to pay, right?
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The following link to Allen Scott’s site exhibits this saying to be true:
http://eagleviews.org/2011/04/05/food-stamp-participation-growth-explodes/
Whether you are Republican, Democrat, Independent, Atheist, Communist, Socialist, etc., the picture is clear. Those government handouts are nothing short of freebies that have ensnared millions to the point of not wanting to be the first to sacrifice at the altar of the god of this country. Be it welfare in any form, as long as we are allowing our government officials to be the drug pushers in our neighborhood, we will continue to be an ever-increasing nation of takers from those who are the givers, not realizing that they in turn are taking from the true givers in order to accomplish their sinister deed. And, as a result, there will one day be nothing left to give.
At some point, we have to ask ourselves a very important question:
If we are hooked on the drugs that the pusher at the local, state and federal level keeps us dependent on, is it time we go through withdrawal by way of some 12 step program in order to become free from those drugs? Or, will we just keep on consuming those drugs until we have reached a state of euphoria, completely oblivious to the fact that the drug dealer has left us for greener pastures, having secured a lifetime of leisure from all those years of taking from the true givers themselves?
This in turn could lead us into committing economic suicide, much in the same way a drug addict no longer able to get their fix commits physical suicide.
Something worth thinking about before our minds become too cloudy.
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