Solutions to Many of Our Problems

A moral bankruptcy has weakened us. Society has little defense against human decadence, the misuse of liberty to crumble our values by the abuse of the internet and motion pictures full of crime, horror, and pornography. The young are especially vulnerable targets for debasement but none of us are immune. An absence of personal responsibility was formerly demeaning under any metric of common sense and the easily comprehended rule of cause and effect.?

The human soul yearns for things higher, warmer. and purer than the trash disguised as art offered by today’s dehumanizing habits, by the dissipation engendered by the celebration of mind -numbing music, and the stupor induced by diverse arrays of media to large audiences via mass communication.

The media is most accountable. The press is more powerful than the president, the congress, or the judiciary community. The press has relinquished its freedom by succumbing to the temptations of power. Our former bastion of liberty has metamorphosed from educator to king maker.

?American’s have a right not to have their intellects and wills stuffed with gossip, nonsensical half- truths, vain talk, and deliberate deceptions. Unless we reclaim our faculties for critical thinking, we will be held hostage like dumb, driven sheep in a pen moronically bleating what we have been trained to recite.

Of course, welfare should not be abolished, nor should it be inherently demeaning to those on its rolls, but its easily identified abuses must be eliminated with the paramount goal of instilling self-reliance.?

?Welfare benefits were originally intended to deliver individuals and families from squalor, to recognize the inherent dignity of the human person, and to provide as the phrase goes, “a hand up, not a hand out.” It was meant to be a bridge to span a gap, not a toll-free highway from sea to shining sea.

?It has led ?to unforeseen consequences. “No good deed goes unpunished.” Welfare rights without coordinate responsibilities is a soul sucking enterprise. It taints the receiver by sapping initiative which reinforces a compliant state of permanent dependency, and diminishes the giver because it becomes resented as coercive rather than a choice.

The elimination of expectations ?is a double-edged sword because it infantilizes the recipient while excusing ?the giver from the active ?duty of caring for the well-being of individuals by reducing him to a passive participant in the flourishing of the human family. Putting food on the tables and roofs over the heads of the genuinely needy is the bare minimum demanded of us to fulfill our social contract and to honor our inherent moral obligations.

Welfare status is not meant to be a final destination but an oasis provided for temporary sustenance. It was intended to enable its inhabitants to eventually become net contributors to society, not burdens to it. it was designed for them to proceed from it with pride, not to become hopelessly mired in a perpetual condition of stagnation.

?In its present form it must be dismantled, first by obliterating its obvious defects, and then by reconstructing a viable replacement built on mutual respect. We must strive together to create a beloved community in which the cure for the incapacity is not worse than the frailty itself. The current system punishes us all by “rewarding bad choices”. By not attaching consequences to those choices, we encourage rather than inhibit them. Blame is a two-way street.?

?Rulemaking has painstakingly established standards for peaceful co- existence and facilitated the rise of civilizations to ?provide opportunities for prosperity. Adherence to rules is an ennobling characteristic which fosters the bonds of affection between us and which is indispensable to our growth and tranquility as a nation. An environment without rules, or where rules are ignored and not enforced, is a return to the lawlessness of the jungle where predators prevail.

?Our population centers have increasingly come to resemble chaotic places where disregard for human life rages and recriminations abound. There are various causes. It would not be an error to number our dysfunctional welfare system among them, linked inextricably to the erosion of family values and relinquishment of the value of families, now considered quaint.

?The sources of our decline are not enigmatic and the solutions pose no riddle. Proposals for radical change will inevitably unleash “slings and arrows against us.” There is a way if we have the will and, if we have the will, we must be courageous. We began the American experiment by relying on the willful courage of our founders and it is by our willful courage that we will realize the destiny they bequeathed to us.

"IF YOU CAN'T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER,YOU'VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM"

This was written by a 21 yr. old female who gets it. It's her future she's worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that she's being forced to live in!

These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.

This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX

PUT ME IN CHARGE

Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22-inch rims and low-profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the "common good."

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self-esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self-esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

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