Flushing it down the Pot

I've become sick. Sick to my gut. Sick to my gut of the mentality that anyone who is poor deserves to be bailed out by the more fortunate. Christianity teaches that men should love one another and help the poor, especially widows and orphans (in other words people who have hit hard times and need help). Notice I said, NEED help. Not simply those that WANT help. After all, the poor in America often live a life of luxury compared to 90% of the rest of the world. Not all of the poor or homeless are 100% responsible for their situation, of course, but neither are they all entitled to partake in the wealth that others have gained through hard work, persistence, maybe some luck, some planning, and time. Is it really okay to simply aggregate the efforts of the fortunate for those less so? Answer: not without stripping away the freedom and incentive from both.

The reason I write this post is because I recently learned of a rather poor family here in town (and by poor, I really just mean that they have 1 car instead of 2, live in an older home, and probably get clothes at Wal-mart instead of Macy's). The mother and father are married and both have children from other mates. Yes, they are minorities. They have two bright and eager children, both capable of great futures. They have a huge tv, sound system, and guess what...their house smells like pot. The children seem well cared for, but what of their financial future? What of their college tuition? This is a family that takes part in Big Brothers Big Sisters. So money is spent on this family by the volunteers of this program. Yet Obama and other lefties want people like these volunteers to pay more and more by funding their college. What they will end up doing is subsidizing the parent's drug habit. The more I learn, the more I see that liberals will gladly suck us all dry like vampires if they can. To me there are few more putrid acts of man than that of pissing a child's future away and then expecting a hand out. There may be one sin more egregious: the act of supporting this behavior by enforcing it with law.

So thanks lefties. Thanks for writing and enforcing legislation that ironically persecutes those that pay their taxes, mortgages, and credit card bills, while you and your supporters and appointed officials simply lie on your taxes and live off the rest like ticks in the crack of America.

Read "Our Battered American"

Now "Pause and Take a Deep Breath"