I was contemplating yet another set of Government programs that are designed to prop up yet another subset of Americans and decided that there is a good solid argument for natural selection. Before anyone accuses me of being anti-something, please understand that I believe in helping people who because of disease or disability are UNABLE to care for themselves. I also feel that this is the responsibility of the people and not the government.
Back on the subject of natural selection. This is a theory proposed by Charles Darwin that simply accounts for survival of some species over the extinction of others. The theory suggests that those who are strong enough do survive and those who are not, do not. While this seems like an insignificant enough theory in politics, I will argue that the process of natural selection is being circumvented and creating a weaker species of humans and very well lead to our eventual extinction.
Take for instance the third and fourth generation welfare families; if the first generation had instead been forced into earning a living than being handed one, they would have passed those ethics on as opposed to the entitlement mentality of their subsequent generations. I am suggesting that by redistributing wealth that we as a nation are creating sluggards. We have taken away the incentive towards industry and by doing so have pushed that industry outside of our borders.
If the labor unions and big government proponents would learn anything from nature it is that as you ease the burden of work from generation to generation, you weaken the species. As human beings, we are systematically being weakened by our own programs. We give to the poor and they learn to stay poor because there is reward in laziness. We tax and take away from the industrious and they then reduce their productivity because there is no reward in it.
Human being will become extinct and it will be because we are no longer the fittest. Not because we could not be but because we choose not to be. By all accounts, every nation that has attempted to equalize the masses has failed and every empire has fallen.
Before even the Constitution, the Holy Bible dealt strongly with those who were not productive. In the parable of the talents, Jesus told of three servants whose wealthy master entrusted them each with talents according to their ability. To one he gave five talents, to another two and to the last he gave one talent. Upon his return the master called his servants to him and asked what they had done with their talents. The one he gave five, invested wisely and earned an additional five, the one he gave two also doubled his. To these servants he lauded praises and additional responsibility for all the days of their lives. The third, we will call him a liberal, knew that his master had made his money by reaping where he had not sown and gathering where he had not laid down and he was afraid of his master. As a result, he took the one talent that was given him and buried it so that it would not be lost.
The last servant, knowing that the master made money on his money still did not invest this angered his master. For his laziness, he was stripped of the one talent he did have and it was given to the servant with now ten talents and the other was sent away never to be in the sight of his master again.
Just like 2000 years ago and even 200 years ago, there is clear evidence that everyone must be productive to survive. We must demand personal responsibility of our fellow man. It is not the governments job to bail out every failure. Let them fail, personal or business. Where they leave off, someone or some other business will succeed. If people are held responsible, its not to late to reverse the trend of entitlement that is crippling the United States.
Tell your elected officials that you have had enough of entitlement programs and you want the government back to the limited size dictated by the Constitution.
Don
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