Posted by
Patrick Bohan on Saturday, July 11, 2009 4:06:15 PM
The more we rely on the government to take care of our responsibilities for us, the worse we will be as a country. As the government grows to handle every responsibility that individuals should be taking care of themselves, they too become irresponsible. The government becomes irresponsible because it becomes too big and more bureaucratic and therefore less efficient. Hence, less tax money targeted to handle these responsibilities for the people is getting to the people. Nothing the U.S. government has run and operated over the past century has been successful: the Post Office, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Social Security, Medicare, and so forth are all losing money and failing the taxpayers. Future Obama programs such as automobile industry, Cap and Trade, and ObamaCare will also fail the people. And what is scary to think about, where does it all end? Will it get so ridiculous that a government worker will be in the home of every irresponsible person to clean their home and cook dinner?
It is more advantageous and it certainly pays to be intellectual challenged and make irresponsible decisions. After all, if you are responsible, you will not receive any government help. If you are irresponsible and purchased a home you cannot afford then the government will bail you out. Thus, the irresponsible person has a better home than the responsible person. The irresponsible person that ran up credit card debt to purchase luxuries they did not need are getting bailed out and now they have better household items than the responsible person. If the government was a person, and you put its brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards. Yes, the government does the opposite of what logic would dictate. Instead, it would make sense for the government to reward responsible behavior which would incentivize irresponsible people to be responsible. What a concept.
I am painting a bleak and pessimistic view of our country and its demise as a world power to mediocrity. If you think I am wrong simply check out our media coverage over the past two weeks. Congress is trying to pass two of the biggest bills in its history: Cap and Trade and ObamaCare and what is our media covering non stop: Michael Jackson’s death. If the media is being irresponsible then is it that far fetch that more and more Americans are becoming irresponsible watching their brainwashing coverage of less important issues.
I was given the pleasure of running into two fine young ladies on one of my hikes this past week. Both were successful business women in the banking industry. They were climbing Mount Yale and they gave me their reason as to why the housing market collapsed. It gave me reassurance that my message is correct when I heard them rant about the irresponsibility of many Americans buying homes they could not afford. They said that Obama was wrong to say creditors were “tricking” Americans to buy homes they could not afford.
In summary, our government’s irresponsibility of incorrectly assessing social policies that have absolutely no incentives is training the American people to be just as irresponsible and vice versa.
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