Zonie63
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What baffles me is that most of us know that our government is rife with corruption, but half of us want to increase its size and scope. Why?
Put them in charge of every aspect of our lives...
It's not baffling at all. Many people are uneducated, unmotivated, or downright lazy. They would rather have someone else take care of them, than fight for their own survival. In addition, they would like someone else to make decisions for them.
In any society, there are producers, and there are leeches. Producers have been taught that they must contribute something of value to society, whether it's becoming a scientist or an astronaut, or just being a good person and a good friend / neighbor. Leeches have been taught that society owes them something, just because they grace us with their presence. Both mindsets are very difficult to change - a producer, when faced with a crisis, would fight rather than give up and go on government assistance, whereas a leech would rather keep receiving welfare checks, even when presented with opportunities.
The problem is, when the percentage of leeches becomes so large that the producers cannot support them, the economy inevitably collapses. In the long run, this is a good thing - when chaos reigns, those with survival skills will outlast the crisis... those who have sat on their ass all their lives will be the first to starve out - and the balance will be restored.
When Mitt Romney said that 47% of Americans don't pay income taxes, he wasn't being all "evil whitey hatin' on the colored man", he was drawing attention to the fact that we're VERY close to that tipping point. What happens when... 50... 60... 70%... of Americans aren't paying taxes? Where is the money going to come from? What radical measures will have to be taken to prevent a complete currency collapse?
Just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean we're immune.
Look at Argentina, Cuba, Soviet Union, Uruguay, Angola, etc, etc. Hell, you want a recent example? Look at Venezuela. In every country where leeches elected a government that would subsidize more leeches, or (worse yet) make it impossible for producers to produce, economic collapse has INEVITABLY followed.
So yeah, let's keep voting for people who will "give us free shit". Let's get "universal free healthcare" (aha, paid for by....?). Let's spend $ billions on a FAILED automaker, who's now recalling their products by the 100,000's. Let's reach that tipping point already, and have a nice little civil war to shake things up.
P.S. I'm not a Republican or Conservative. I'm a former resident of a Socialist country. I've seen this already. Let's go for an encore. I promise it will be fun.
I would say that the bigger flaw is in political philosophers who believe in ideology over common sense. That was the main problem with the Soviet Union, and it seems to be the main problem with the United States these days. While we've always had capitalism and the free market, it wasn't really until the Reagan era that people started to become so rigidly ideological about it.
We've had people from all levels of society leeching and gaming the system. This has led to an overall culture of cynicism and mistrust of government in society that leads people to think they should do the same and get their share as well. There are still those who try to play by the rules, thinking that a sense of honor and hard work will get them somewhere. The actual producers are the ones in the middle, and they get the leeches from both ends.
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