I have had friends who are for total socialism. In this day and age, with all the history dictating failure, I can't imagine why they wouldn't see the flaws in this. I've seen the pitfalls personally. It's not a pretty picture. Even in this idealogy, someone has to be in charge. This can still lead to corruption and it has.
I've also had friends who are capitalists and want the government out of our business. I can see the flaw with this too. History has also dictated to us that this can and has created problems.
I'm more the middle of the road, where I see that both can work in harmony - with effort - a form of check and balance - a hybrid system - without using the name that has social or capital in it. A republic? I believe this is what America has tried to maintain, but therein lies the problem we face in America today. We've begun to go beyond this middle ground with too much government involvement and the flow is trying to correct itself - balance itself. It is to be expected that those who reside too far right or left, when an adjustment in being made, will feel it the strongest.
Anyway, I decided to write this blog today due to a comment I made, many years ago, to some friends about our current welfare system getting out of control. This is based on my knowledge of what I've witnessed growing up, things I've seen due to my travels, as well as listening to people's personal stories. We had been talking about how our forest rangers had advised not to feed the animals due to dependency, yet weren't we doing something similar with people on perpetual welfare and their progressive dependency? To me, it felt no different than promoting a drug dependency and I wondered why our government would be allowing this. Were we being led down a slippery slope? If so - why?
So I wrote: It has already been proven by people living under the communist principle that those that get from the government, all the time, eventually, shut down to their own desires to be productive in anything - they become human vegetables with no will to truly live. They have no desire to create.
Sure there are always extenuating circumstance but the majority of what I have seen over the years is: the more you give the more they take or demand. My mom use to have a quote about children: "give them an inch and they'll take a mile."
In my humble opinion, no government should give to anyone without working for it in some way. People need to feel value - feel worth. When they are denied that, they feel worthless. Even people who are disabled still feel they have something to give but when they are denied that, it shuts their lights off - it creates a person who can only follow because they are given no other choice. I have seen that in the faces of people who have lived in countries ruled by dictators as opposed to those that live where they have the right to criticize and condemn their government openly.
To feed the multitude without allowing them self worth will make them no less then caged or controlled animals. The irony of it all is, they will think they are loved and cared for which is far from the truth, because they are looked down on as the dregs of the earth. I felt that when I applied for food stamps once and swore I would never do that again - if at all possible. I even felt terrible when applying for unemployment. There are those that will make you feel worthless, whatever you do to take care of yourself. I've been the gamut, so it's not hearsay.
I realize that there are times where people need help, but the government has too much waste. They can control that waste by utilizing these same people to "work" for what they get even if it means working out of their home in whatever means they can or a family member doing it for them - in a cooperative manner.
All I can say is, what we have is far from perfect. It's time for a revamping of ways and values before this country crushes itself under it's own stupidity. Unless that's what we are meant to do - the bigger they are the harder they fall?
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