The easiest job in the whole world….spending someone else’s money.   Where better to do that than in government?  Whether it is city, county, state or Federal.  Those elected and non-elected officials always know what is good for the citizens better than the taxpayers do, like giving millions to companies, many foreign, to locate nearby…never mind whose money it is.

The American Culture/Philosophy has changed drastically since our beginnings.   A man’s word was his bond. Now lying is accepted.  Horse thieves were shot. Now thieves are often spanked on the hand. Crooked politicians were run out of town on a rail (now they get raises and things named after them) and murderers were hung (not left on death row for 30 years.).  Deadbeats were left to their own devices (not put on welfare) and if they stole they were dealt with severely (not rewarded with more programs).  The Constitution and rule of law was revered, not trampled, distorted and ignored.  Immigrants were chosen carefully for their skills and attributes, their backgrounds and health checked closely (now illegal invaders who crash our borders and break our laws are lauded and given handouts that taxpaying citizens are forced to fund.

Boards, committees, task forces, etc. decide what is to be built, formed, made into law, et al and the citizens are either held in contempt or not considered at all.  It appears that what the next town has is more important.

The “brainwash” is so successful that even the law-abiding, taxpaying citizens are often duped….thanks to our government schools, and other politically correct institutions like the media, big corporations, churches, Chambers of Commerce, entertainment, and all government agencies.  Take from the “Rich” (those with a real job) and give to the “Poor” (the dumbed-down, the deadbeats, losers, and parasites). The bigger the lie, the more it’s believed. Government is now the answer to everything that once was up to the individual, like putting people to work, bailing out failures, refusals to release lawfully required information, ad infinitum.

Courage has been replaced by cowardice and parasitism.  Fear rules those who in earlier times would have spoken up and acted on their principles.

The key is philosophy…standards/merit/honor/rationality.

How easy to spend someone else’s money for the “greater good”, and even to feel pious about it.  Do such people ever own up to the fact that they are the problem, not the solution?  They clipped the wings of the Eagle and wonder why it can’t fly, and either have no idea what they have done or they don’t care.  Gratification comes first, doesn’t it? How easy.

~Barb McCutchen

P.S. There are some who take the responsibility seriously, but unfortunately they are few and far between.