Remember those rich kids in high school who always got in trouble with school officials and with law enforcement but their parents always got them out of trouble? Remember how their behavior got worse with every incident until it got so bad that their parents couldn’t or wouldn’t get them out of the mess? I wasn’t one of those kids. I made bad choices and always suffered the consequences, and eventually, I started making better choices.<\/p>\n
Well, these days we have a whole generation of those spoiled rich kids. No matter what bad choices they make in their lives, the government is there to bail them out. If they drop out of school, get crappy jobs that don’t support the lifestyle they think they deserve, the government will raise the minimum wage for them. If they have scads of children with men who aren’t willing our able to support those kids, the government has programs to give you money for those kids.<\/p>\n
If you see a house that fits your desired lifestyle, but it’s outside your price range, the government will help you buy it and then step in to help you keep it when you can’t make the mortgage payments. And the government will blame the lender because the government forced them to give you the loan. <\/p>\n
If you want a degree from a fancy university instead of getting the same education at a local college, the government will help you pay for it with loans. When your degree in underwater hemp weaving doesn’t land you a job and you can’t pay back your loan, the government will forgive you and probably help you get a few years of unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n
When you want your employer to cover your promiscuous lifestyle and that employer doesn’t want to pay for your birth control, the government will take them to court to force them to pay for your inability to say “no” to men who have no intention of paying for the children that might spring from that union.<\/p>\n
When too many people are making bad choices that government has to pay to correct, guess who ends up pay for it eventually – those of us who learned about consequences and adjusted our behavior accordingly. Because the money that government spends isn’t their money, it comes from law abiding citizens who work hard and pay their taxes like they’re supposed to do. It comes from people who didn’t live outside their means or live to be popular. Folks who saw that the popular culture is a trap and sought to be independent as opposed to the alternative.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I know I’m preaching to the choir, but watching the Supreme Court decisions today and the media reaction, I just felt that I had to vent a bit. Carry on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"