Spent an evening in a Local Kuwaiti food courtyard. Kids were playing outside with each other. They were riding bicycles with out helmets. The platytoys didn’t have excessive amounts of safety netting and no one was getting hurt. This made me think about my own country. The amount of safety litigation we are forced to protect ourselves from has become so invasive that we have made enjoying life just a little less joyful.
We elect lawmakers into political offices and they do what lawmakers do…make laws.
Sadly, it is these very laws that are supposed to protect us often do noting more than steal little of our joy of living. Take some time and look at some of the laws that have been made to control the behavior of people but really have no harming effect on society if they are violated. An example is a law about peanut shells being thrown on the street.
Do we really have such a lack of decency that we need a law governing basic behavior that should be learned at the direction of parental upbringing? Does such a law need to be on the books today? Should such a law have had a moratorium? Should it have even made it to the books? What happens to the innocent person who mistakenly drops a peanut shell our two on the ground and someone without anything better to do decides to make an issue out of such a mistake? The legal system is only designed to enforce the laws and while something as simple as a few dropped peanut shells is truly harmless, the person “at fault” must defend such a simple mistake at a level that goes way beyond the action of dropping the shells. It is this sort of overly controlled society that loses a little of the joy of living under such foolish and oppressive laws.
Granted, this is oversimplified but it it illustrates a point. We as a modern society have become so litigious and additionally so unwilling to regulate ourselves that we pass the responsibility on to the lawmakers and expect them to regulate our society with laws that we all agree with. It is to easy to pass the buck and hope that someone else will do exactly what we want on our behalf…instead, we trade off the responsibility of teaching the next generation about being decent human beings to elected lawmakers and sacrifice our freedom in doing so.
This division in viewpoints of what the government should be doing is what divides our nation and keeps us from moving into becoming the strong nation we once were. Yes we have military power that exceeds many other nations and we have some advanced technology that other countries only wish they had. But that gap is closing.
Some people would suggest that we don’t need military strength to be successful and protected…tell that to the French, or for that matter the Kuwaitis. We came to the aid of both nations because they were not fully prepared.
I know that it can be a very slow turn around for a nation unless something drastic happens that gains the unified attention of its people. Typically it’s a war of some sort, either internal or external that does this.
Our own government has only sought to expand its own power for years and rarely does it exert its abilities for the good of the citizens that elected it into place without a high cost. Even today, the push for expansion of that power reaches out to foreign lands where its resources are highly valued but when need arises for its own military forces to receive assistance when in peril, they are ignored. The navy seal team of late comes to mind.
We must take responsibility for our actions and stop expecting the government to do the work of raising our children by regulating our society with laws when we can teach them decency ourselves. We must stop expecting the government to take care of us by redistributing our wealth in a socialist manner. If you don’t work, you don’t eat. Pretty simple. If you can’t work, that is different but generational welfare cases are out of control and need to be stopped. Lazy people will become motivated by the same instincts that drives the animal kingdom…HUNGER!
We as nation aren’t truly hungry. We have more fat people than most nations and this is a sign of overly content, happy to rest on our butts, lazy people who would rather take a handout than work for what they need…be it food or any other needs.
What happened to self respect? What happened to feeling a little shame when we are given what we need when we are fully capable of earning our keep but would rather let someone else do it?
What happens when the people of a country bring an abrupt end to the free lunch for those who aren’t motivated? Chaos…ultimately driven by hunger.
What happens to a country that doesn’t bring and end to the free handouts and the government can suddenly no longer sustain the free ride?…Chaos…ultimately driven by hunger.
What happens to a nation that is taxed to the point that business can no longer be sustained and therefore the business must be shut down and no longer provide a tax base for the government to hand back out to the non working people?…Chaos…ultimately driven by hunger.
What happens when people are driven by hunger? Lawless behavior and increased crime? I think so. My own father was once headed out the door to steal the neighbors chickens to feed his family and just at the right moment, he received a call for a job and to start that day. It is already clear that people will do what ever it takes to meet the physiological drive to answer an addiction to drugs…how much more magnified would it be if it was hunger and it was on the scale of 1000’s of hungry people at a time?
When you vote, be sure that you aren’t just voting for someonewho will “take care of you with handouts”. Vote for someone who will help business stay afloat and not be trying to regulate us to death with laws on behavioral issues that should be learned about in the home. Vote for someone who isn’t apologizing for America being strong.
Whatever you do, consider carefully the effects of your vote or lack thereof.
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