Why would people want to choose slavery to freedom? When people choose to live from the tit of government by accepting and demanding entitlements, they are choosing slavery to freedom.
Why would a teenage girl choose pregnancy to abstinence or to use birth control? If she decides to give birth to that baby, she can surely be guaranteed to be enslaved to a life of demands from that child that she should not have to deal with at such a tender age. Her teenage years should be years of freedom to enjoy her youth without a care or worry other than when and where is the next party or what movie friends want to see that weekend. Because this teenager, if she chooses to have the child, has no work skills, no education, and a phantom baby daddy, she will be saddled with a mouth to feed which she cannot. So what is she to do? - Apply for government entitlements – here begins the enslavement of this young life.
Unless this misguided child has a strong support group in her family, she is doomed to remain a slave of the state, and there is a good chance that her child will repeat her mother’s story when he/she reaches that age. We see some families where this cycle of dependence on government entitlements cannot be broken. So I ask myself, why would people want to choose slavery to freedom?
Is defrauding the government to get lifetime disability entitlement benefits so enticing that people will give up their freedom for it? Apparently yes, it is. I know 4 people personally, 2 women and 2 men who have done just this. The 2 women proved that they suffer from bad nerves and, therefore, cannot be useful to society, and the 2 men proved that they have bad back problems so they cannot work – all 4 are receiving disability benefits for life. We The People of the United States are funding the disability benefits for these 4 people and who knows if it is millions more just like them.
And these entitlements don’t stop here – we also have the entitlements to Cubans who are fortunate to reach our country. I am Cuban and I have no qualms about receiving these exiles into my homeland, but these people should not be guaranteed and automatic receive monthly stipends, Medicaid, free education and food stamps from the government by virtue of their political status. Many of these exiles were invited by their family members, who live here, especially in the case of parents, and then these parents stay here and immediately their families take them to the Social Security Administration to apply for food stamps and Medicaid. Then they also place their parents on a waiting list for Plan 8 government housing subsidies. The families of these exiles had to fill out a financial affidavit that they would be able to support their family members so that they would not become a ward of the state, but we know how quickly they take advantage of the entitlement programs.
A public worker pension paid by the private citizens of this country is another entitlement that needs to be stopped too. Here is another example of slavery. Why should private citizens be required to pay the pensions of public employees? How can Wisconsin or Florida public employees demand that private citizens be responsible for their retirement benefits? These retirement benefits are for public employees not for private citizens. Paying these pensions is not an essential cost which should enslave us. Each public employee, I included, should pay a percentage of our wages towards our own pensions – I do not find this to be an outrageous request of these governors. It is audacious that union leaders are rabblerousing their union members to demonize these governors for doing their jobs in trying to balance an unsustainable state budget.
I am a proponent for teaching people to fish, rather than just giving them the fish. If they only know that a fish will be supplied by the fisherman, and they never learn the skill of catching the fish, then they are slaves to the fisherman. By relying solely on the fisherman for their survival, if the fisherman gets sick or dies and the fish cannot be supplied to them, they might die or suffer tremendous hardship because they have come to expect it.
We can learn much from the animal kingdom. Momma and papa teach their offspring to hunt, fish and/or forage for their meals which in turn prepares them to survive out in the wild. Then, when they are ready, the parents push their offspring out of the lair, out of the nest or out of the cave into the wild for their offspring to face the stark reality of their lives and these offspring survive.
I think it is time for us to push these people out into the stark reality of this world, as we live it by working for our meals and comforts, and teach them to provide for themselves – and we can be there to help them all the way. I believe that this is true compassion - freedom.
I agree with you, but what you don't see is that for every cent that dishonest people are getting from the government, there is a politician putting another cent in his/her pocket. This is the reason that all this programs exist, so politicians can steal. Every two or three years they authorize a raid to make them seem honest, but you know it's only a front.
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