WAS IT A BAD IDEA?

 WAS IT A BAD IDEA?

 

250 years or so, when this country was founded the intent was to form a democracy where all people would have a shot at making a living and live peacefully with their neighbors. Our country was a melting pot of people from many different parts of the earth. Our founding fathers didn’t feel this was an impediment and that we would bridge the gaps between faiths languages and ethnicity’s and everybody would be treated equal. They even wrote it in the constitution that all men were created equal. Equal yes, but yet at the same time they knew different and that some would always do better than others. Just so it wasn’t at the expense of others that was okay,

 

At least for a while this worked but some of the things that made it work such as common decency, unselfishness and morality may have just as well been written in the sand on a beach somewhere because like the incoming waves washing over those sands, the ideals that had brought us this far, slowly eroded away. The gaps between the haves and the have nots grew wider. Human greed and selfishness raised its ugly head and as time passed it became less and less an undesirable trait and more like the status quo. In many cases the human conscience just gave up and quit working.

 

Those on the bottom gave up on the “Pulling themselves up by their boot straps scenario” and resorted to a form of Robinhood politics of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Their votes counted as much as the rich’s votes at election time so politicians resorted to making all kinds of happy promises to them. One only needs to reread these last two paragraphs to see where the problem lies and where it is headed.

 

Until it’s recognized that we aren’t all created equal in every sense and those at the top start to share their time, money and talents with others, instead of having it wrested from them, then we will continue down this path to ruin and doom. The others at the bottom need to do their part to earn their keep. Work needs to be more than a four-letter word. The world does not owe you a living. The others at the top need to recognize that at some point unless things are more equitable there will be a rebellion and then we all suffer. The politicians need to stop aiding and abetting both groups and pay more attention to the middle class which suffers the most. One needs to understand the liberals desire to make things more equitable but not at the expense of taking away any incentive to become your own person. “Give a man a fish etc.” You know the saying. At the same time, one needs to recognize the fact that the less government we have controlling our lives, the better off we will be until you forget how to behave in a free society. 

 

We need to care about our country and each other more. Otherwise, there will be no country 

or each other. It’s that simple. There are powerful adversary’s right now watching and waiting

to see, if and when we destroy ourselves and save them the trouble of doing it to us-- or will

they see a united country that they will continue to fear. Time will tell.